Vice President, HR Technology & Automation

Job Description About Acrisure A global fintech leader, Acrisure empowers millions of ambitious businesses and individuals with the right solutions to grow boldly forward. Bringing cutting-edge technology and top-tier human support together, we connect clients with customized solutions across a range of insurance, reinsurance, payroll, benefits, cybersecurity, mortgage services – and more.  In the last twelve years, Acrisure has grown in revenue from $38 million to almost $5 billion and employs over 19,000 colleagues in more than 20 countries.

Acrisure was built on entrepreneurial spirit. Prioritizing leadership, accountability, and collaboration, we equip our teams to work at the highest levels possible.

Job Summary:

Acrisure is seeking a Vice President, HR Technology & Automation to join our growing team and shape how HR technology powers Acrisure’s next stage of growth. This role reports to the SVP, Human Resources.

The Vice President, HR Technology & Automation is the enterprise leader for Acrisure’s HR technology. This executive sets the vision and strategy for the systems, data, and AI that power how HR serves more than 19,000 colleagues across more than 20 countries. The role is accountable for business outcomes, not just system delivery: a strong, scalable foundation and better data for decisions today, and an advanced, AI-enabled platform that keeps pace with a fast-growing, acquisitive company.

Success requires strong, steady leadership that pairs operational discipline with bold innovation. The Vice President builds a high-performing global team and holds it accountable for results, brings discipline through standard work and continuous improvement, and advances automation and AI to eliminate manual effort and elevate the employee experience. This leader works in concert with Finance, Information Technology, and Cyber Security leaders to align priorities, architecture, and controls, communicates clearly with executives, leads teams through change, and keeps a strong focus on risk and controls.

As a member of the HR leadership team, this leader directs a global organization of direct colleagues, contractors, consultants, and managed services providers, placing the right work in the right place, and owns an annual HR technology budget. Travel up to 25%, including international.

Responsibilities:

Strategic leadership:
Set the multi-year HR technology vision and roadmap with the SVP, Human Resources and HR leadership, aligned to enterprise priorities and balancing foundational run-and-improve work with transformative investment in new technology and AI, and review it with them regularly. Translate strategy into clear investment cases and measurable outcomes, and keep senior leaders informed of progress, trade-offs, and risks.

Leadership and talent:
Build, lead, and retain a high-performing global organization; develop leaders of leaders and a culture of accountability, ownership, and service. Shape the organization and sourcing model, across employees, contingent talent, and partners, to scale with demand, with clear roles and decision rights.

Driving outcomes:
Establish transparent intake, prioritization, and governance so the highest-value work is done first and capacity is used well. Define success measures for every major initiative and hold the organization accountable for delivering on time, on budget, and with measurable value.

Process excellence and standard work:
Establish standard work, playbooks, and quality standards across delivery, release, and support, so results are consistent and repeatable. Lead the twice-yearly Workday release cycle and testing, with training that drives adoption of new capabilities. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, using data to remove friction, shorten cycle times, and raise service quality.

Automation and AI:
Set and lead the automation and AI strategy across HR, advancing our technology stack and expanding self-service and delivering measurable reductions in manual work ablish responsible AI governance with Legal, Security, and Privacy, and scale proven use cases with discipline.

Collaboration and partnership:
Serve as a trusted advisor to HR leadership, bringing leaders into key decisions early and building shared ownership of priorities. Work in concert with Information Technology, Finance and finance systems, Cyber Security, and procurement leaders, aligning roadmaps, architecture, and standards through joint planning so HR technology advances as part of one…