Vice President Human Resources

Emerson has an exciting opportunity as a Vice President of Human Resources for our Boulder, CO location. In this role, you are a strategic HR leader and trusted advisor to senior executives, partnering with the President and the Flow Leadership Team to shape the future of our business. You drive organizational growth, elevate workforce capability, and foster a culture of innovation and inclusion across a global footprint.

You lead HR strategy, guide complex organizational transformations, and inspire a high‑performing HR team to deliver excellence and impact at scale.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
Strategic HR Leadership

• Serve as the global strategic HR Business Partner to the Flow Leadership team (President & direct reports), advising on short‑and long‑term business challenges, including organizational growth, workforce capability, talent needs, and change management.
• Drive transformative organizational change initiatives by translating business strategies into HR priorities while also operationalizing global HR initiatives within the business, ensuring enterprise programs, policies, and capabilities are effectively adopted and adapted to local needs.
• Lead HR support for significant organizational changes, including integrations, restructures, organizational design efforts, and role realignments.
• Partner with HR leaders across the global team to ensure alignment on priorities, expectations, and communications while enabling each to execute within its local context.

Regional Team Leadership & Development

• Provide direct HR leadership for the Boulder, Colorado, site, while offering matrixed/dotted‑line oversight, guidance, and coaching to HR managers in Long Island, New York, and Chihuahua, Mexico.
• Lead, coach, and develop a diverse HR team, ensuring clarity of roles within the redefined HR operating model (HRBP, Site HR/People Experience Partners, HR Capabilities).
• Foster an inclusive, highly engaged, and collaborative team culture with strong communication norms and alignment across regions.

Workforce Planning, Development & Succession

• Lead global talent and org review using the established frameworks, driving succession planning, performance calibration, and leadership development.
• Partner with leaders to identify high‑potential talent and create development experiences that strengthen capability, readiness, and retention across critical roles.
• Support workload planning, talent forecasting, and capability needs in alignment with growth and footprint strategies, ensuring work is optimally placed across domestic and international locations.

Employee Relations & Culture

• Oversee complex employee relations matters within North America, ensuring a fair, compliant, and psychologically safe approach that appropriately balances employee and business needs.
• Coach senior leaders on navigating complex organizational issues.

Who You Are:

You are capable of being visionary and able to articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods. You find and champion the best creative ideas and actively move them into implementation. You seek new approaches to solve problems.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Proven experience in strategic leadership roles supporting matrixed or multi‑site organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with senior leaders and influence decision‑making.
• Strong expertise in change leadership, organizational development, and employee relations.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, relationship‑building, and coaching skills.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States – sponsorship will not be provided for this position now and in the future.

Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:

• Experience leading or supporting HR teams in a matrixed or global environment.
• Demonstrated capability to shape culture and build high‑performing teams.
• Familiarity with international employment considerations (e.g., cultural differences, diverse talent markets, high‑level awareness of international labor practices).

Our Culture & Commitment to You:

Our compensation philosophy is simple: we pay a competitive base salary, within the local market in which we operate, and…