Senior HR Advisor, Americas

USA (Phoenix)full timeRemote

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Cognite Senior HR Advisor, Americas at Cognite leads employment compliance, independent investigations, and policy architecture across the Americas region. The role involves policy ownership, redesign, implementation, and harmonization through acquisition.

Responsibilities

Policy ownership, redesign and implementation
Own the US policy set: Review, assess and modernize the US Employee Handbook and regional policies, with a firm bias toward simplicity, clarity and practical usability over complexity.
Turn cases into better policy: When real cases show a policy no longer holds up, bring tested recommendations and drive their implementation.
Keep policy current and audit-ready: Maintain policies across every state where we employ people, ready for internal and external audit and governance reviews, including SOX-style controls.
Translate the law into guidance: Keep us up to date on laws and regulations that affect us and turn it into clear, accessible guidance for managers and employees across our multi-state footprint (AZ, TX, and growing remote workforce).
Harmonize through the acquisition: Partner with the VP, P&O Operations & Rewards and the M&A working group to evaluate, align, and draft harmonized policy frameworks as Cognite integrates with Schneider Electric.
Complex cases, compliance and employee relations
Resolve the hard cases, end to end: Partner on challenging employee relations matters, from conflict and complaints to conduct and performance.
Bring in Legal at the right moment: Work with internal and external counsel on specialized employment matters, litigation prevention and regulatory updates.
Experience implementing or administering an ethics hotline, speak-up program, or formal reporting channel, and familiarity with audit readiness (SOX or similar)
Leaves, accommodations and immigration
Complex leaves and accommodations: Serve as the Tier-3 compliance and escalation partner for complex or disputed leaves (FMLA, Medical, Parental) and lead high-risk ADA interactive accommodation processes, partnering with People Operations who handle daily leave administration and vendor routing.

Qualification

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Required

A track record of leading sensitive investigations independently and landing clear, defensible outcomes
Demonstrated success reviewing, drafting and implementing handbooks and policies, with an emphasis on clarity, accessibility and multi-state compliance
Experience in a scaling technology, SaaS or software company, ideally through an acquisition or integration, including policy and benefits harmonization
The confidence to work as a senior individual contributor: you drive initiatives from strategy through delivery, own outcomes, and influence managers and PBPs
A confident, articulate and proactive communicator with executive presence and excellent written communication
Calm, discreet and fair under pressure
Experience collaborating across a global matrix and with local People Operations teams, with ease working across time zones with colleagues in Norway and India
Curiosity and a point of view on AI: you already use, or are eager to use, tools like Claude and automation to scale advisory work, you know where human judgment must stay in the loop, and you want to help set the standard.
SHRM-SCP, SPHR or an equivalent certification, or a law degree
Experience with HiBob or a comparable HRIS, and a ticketing tool such as Jira Service Management
Experience building or running AI-assisted HR workflows, such as knowledge bases, case summaries or first-line answers
Experience with an ethics hotline or speak-up program and with audit readiness (SOX or similar)

Preferred

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Equal Opportunity
Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
PTO
Parental Leave
Flexible Work

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