Vice President, People Experience

Yes Energy • Boulder, CO

23h • Hybrid

About The Position

The electrical grid is the largest and most complicated machine ever built. Yes Energy’s industry-leading electric power trading analytics software provides real-time visibility into the massive amount of data generated by the North American electrical grid daily. Our unique and innovative view of the data informs real-time trading decisions and mid-to-long-term investment decisions that keep utility prices low, support the energy transition, and keep the grid running. It’s both challenging work and work with a purpose.
Be a part of our successful, growing business during international transformation.
As we scale rapidly, leadership strength, cultural clarity, and organizational discipline are competitive advantages. We are building the next phase of the People Operations team to match the pace and ambition of the business.
The Vice President, People Experience (Business Partners) is a senior leader responsible for building and leading a high-impact HR Business Partner function that strengthens leader capability, scales organizational design, and drives a high-performance culture across Yes Energy.
Reporting to the CHRO, this leader will operationalize and execute the People strategy in close partnership with the executive team. This role will serve as the primary outward-facing leader of the Business Partner function, ensuring consistent, high-quality, and performance-driven partnerships across all business units. You will translate strategy into execution, elevate leadership standards, and ensure our culture scales without dilution as we grow.
Join a team where People truly make the difference.

Requirements

• Twelve (12)+ years of experience serving in a management role in human resources, with at least five (5) years leading Business Partners in high-growth, performance-oriented environments
• Demonstrated expertise in organizational design, leadership development, and performance systems.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect People initiatives to operational and financial outcomes.
• Demonstrated success implementing scalable HR programs in a growing, fast-paced organization.
• Skilled communicator and facilitator, adept at navigating complexity and ambiguity with clarity.

Nice To Haves

• SPHR or SHRM-CP certification preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Business Partner team supporting multiple business units.
• Partner with senior leaders on annual workforce planning, headcount modeling, succession planning, and talent reviews
• Judiciously and continually work to identify organizational friction, skill gaps, and cultural risks, and proactively act or provide recommendations for early intervention to ensure the business can meet its strategic objectives.
• Identify and address performance trends, capability gaps, and retention risks using data, surveys, and direct observation
• Establish employee-related performance metrics and reporting that provide actionable insights to business leaders and executive leadership
• Ensure managers are equipped to lead performance, deliver feedback, coach effectively, and recruit and retain talent
• Partner with Learning & Development to build programs designed to support employee development around critical business activities and future business goals
• Partner with business leaders on organizational design decisions, including spans and layers, team structure, and role scope
• Lead organizational assessments during periods of growth, integration, or change
• Reinforce a “One Company” mindset through structure, talent movement, leadership alignment, and active promotion and messaging
• Partner with Learning & Development to design targeted enablement for new managers, senior leaders, and high-potential talent
• Translate engagement survey results into specific, measurable action plans owned by business leaders
• Drive measurable improvements in retention, regrettable attrition, early tenure success, leadership effectiveness, and employee mobility within the organization

Benefits

• We offer highly competitive salaries and real bonuses that are achievable and that you can impact.
• Our benefits package is also very competitive, including medical insurance, a 401 (k) Plan with matching, flexible vacation, and flexible work schedules.
• Yes Energy encourages and funds investment in both formal and informal professional development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed