Vice President, Global Talent Management

Intuitive • Sunnyvale, CA

19h

About The Position

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive . As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care , our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion —have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide. We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world. The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life. If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare , you’ll find your purpose here. Position Summary The Vice President of Global Talent Management is a forward-thinking, strategic enterprise leader responsible for shaping and executing a forward-looking talent strategy that enables Intuitive’s growth, organizational agility and leadership excellence worldwide. This leader will be a partner to executive leadership, and HR leadership, aligning global talent strategy with business objectives to drive a high-performance culture in a rapidly growing and transforming global business. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, this person leads the design and execution of enterprise-wide talent initiatives, including leadership development, succession planning and workforce planning and design across all our global markets. This leader partners with business leaders, HR leaders, and cross-functional teams, leading with purpose to enable the business to scale and grow. With a strong leadership background in managing global, distributed teams, this leader fosters a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and operational excellence. Your customers: our leaders, our employees, HR, and key functional stakeholders. Our HR Purpose: In partnership with our people, we aim to cultivate a healthy, high-performing, and scalable culture—one that empowers our global teams to thrive and stay focused on what matters most: putting patients first. This is a rare opportunity to shape how a global, mission-driven MedTech company develops its most important asset: its people. As VP of Global Talent Management, you will build and lead the function that accelerates Intuitive's growth by attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional talent — worldwide.

Requirements

• BS/BA in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, HR Management, or related field; MBA or advanced degree in Sciences or Engineering is a plus
• Proven experience building and leading a global Talent Management Center of Excellence — setting strategy, governance, and operating model
• Deep expertise across the full talent lifecycle: talent acquisition, performance management, L&D, succession planning, workforce planning, D&I, org design, change management, and culture
• Track record of delivering enterprise-wide programs on time and at scale across a complex global matrix
• Strategic mindset — able to anticipate talent trends, connect the dots from macro to micro, and build scalable initiatives
• Executional rigor — you close things; you drive programs from concept through measurement
• High emotional intelligence — skilled at building consensus, influencing without authority, and navigating organizational dynamics
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills; natural relationship builder across functions, levels, and geographies
• Analytical and consulting strengths — you use data to make the case and track impact

Responsibilities

• Partner with the business and HR leaders to align on a global talent strategy spanning performance management, succession planning, talent reviews, and L&D alignment
• Lead development of talent infrastructure: workforce planning and design, competency models, career paths, assessment tools, onboarding and year-one assimilation programs
• Practicing “co-creation” practices and leading with a “product development mindset” - Build and continuously improve talent programs that support the business strategies, deepen the talent pipeline, raise employee engagement, and support Intuitive's rapid global expansion
• Ensure talent systems, technologies, and processes are in place to execute reliably and cost-effectively across geographies. Keeping an eye on the employee experience – meeting them in the flow of work.
• Champion belonging, equity, diversity and inclusion through development programs and talent practice
• Maintain compliance with fiduciary and legal talent requirements applicable to a publicly traded company and US government contractor
• Partner with HR business partners and leaders creating global career paths, and pipeline development for talent
• Partnering with the HR business partners in driving organizational health metrics: employee engagement, bench strength, diversity representation, retention, and compliance
• Serve as an external thought leader — bringing best practices, market intelligence, and innovation into Intuitive's talent practices

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees