Job-Level: This role is open for Manager or Director level candidates. Please see Required Qualifications for more details.
Department: Corporate
Reports To: General Counsel
Location: Remote (United States)
POSITION SUMMARY
Operating at the parent-company level, the Corporate Risk & HR Compliance role serves as the central governing authority for both operational risk mitigation and HR compliance across our portfolio. In a high-risk industry like telecommunications and construction (FTTH, fiber infrastructure), this role is critical to balancing two distinct but related objectives: establishing the safety culture and insurance strategy to drive down EMOD and claims and architecting the HR compliance framework to minimize legal and regulatory liability.
This role functions as a Center of Excellence (COE), establishing the corporate standards, frameworks, and reporting mechanisms while providing oversight to decentralized subsidiary leadership who will execute on your vision within the framework and needs of each business. This is a leadership role requiring the ability to collaborate across lines of business to understand the core nuances while prioritizing how the liabilities of each business impact the others. The preferred candidate will have a strong risk management mindset, collaborative and cross-functional approach to project and program management, and the tenacity and nimbleness to adjust to our growing and changing businesses.
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Operational Risk & Insurance Management
- Safety & EMOD Strategy: Develop and lead human-first safety initiatives to minimize job-site injuries, illness, and property damage. Implement policy and procedure updates that directly target EMOD reduction and lower overall insurance premiums.
- Claims Oversight: Act as the corporate lead for the management of Workers' Compensation, General Liability, and Auto insurance claims. Analyze claims data to identify trends, root causes, and necessary operational interventions.
- Insurance Strategy & Broker Management: Serve as the primary owner for corporate insurance relationships, including renewal negotiations and program design for G&L, Property, and Workers' Comp.
- Field Operations Collaboration: Partner with construction and operations leaders to ensure safety training, protocols, and field site standards align with corporate risk appetite.
2. HR Compliance & Administration
- Regulatory Filings: Ensure 100% compliance with federal and state mandates, including ACA filings, 5500s, EEO-1, OSHA reporting, and state-specific pay data requirements.
- Benefits & Total Rewards: Design and propose cost-effective, high-quality benefit plans across the portfolio, ensuring administrative compliance and competitive positioning.
- Policy Governance: Architect standardized corporate HR policies. Oversee the maintenance of compliant subsidiary handbooks and ensure all physical and digital labor law postings are managed appropriately.
- Employee Relations & Investigations: Provide oversight and risk assessment for high-level employee relations incidents, formal investigations, and complex terminations.
- Point of Contact: Act as point of contact for providers and business unit HR leads facilitating benefit administration, supporting resolutions when concerns arise, and program managing data collection when required.
3. Governance & Reporting
- BOD Reporting: Consolidate operational risk metrics and HR compliance data into a unified dashboard to present quarterly reports to the Board of Directors.
- Subsidiary Oversight: Establish the audit cadence for subsidiary entities. Require reporting from subsidiary HR and operations managers to ensure strict adherence to corporate standards.
- Wage & Hour Integrity: Audit job classifications, FLSA compliance, and wage/hour architectures across all entities to minimize litigation risk.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Dual-Track Experience: 10+ years of leadership experience demonstrating a unique combination of Operational Risk/Insurance Management (specifically for construction, telecom, or field-based industries) and HR Compliance/Employment Law.
- Proven Results: Demonstrated history of reducing EMOD or insurance claims through proactive policy updates and safety-first management.
- Multi-Entity Expertise: Experience operating at a parent/holding company level or managing compliance/risk across multiple distinct business entities.
- Technical Compliance Depth: Deep expertise in FLSA, ADA, FMLA, ACA, EEOC, and complex state labor laws.
- Executive Presence: Ability to partner with executive leadership and lead through influence.
JOB DETAILS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- This role requires travel up to 10% of the time to visit subsidiaries as needed or attend BOD meetings.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States.
- This is an Exempt position.
- This is a Full-Time position.
- This is a Remote position within the United States.
- The schedule for this position is Monday through Friday with occasional weekend availability as needed to fulfill the core duties of the role.
- This position requires the ability to sit and work at a desk for extended periods of time, using a computer and other office equipment.
- This position requires the ability to perform fine motor tasks, such as typing or using a mouse, for extended period of time.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
- Base pay is paid at an annual salary rate. The range for this position is $125K-175K depending on experience.
- Target annual bonus for this role is 15-25%
- Paid life insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid medical plans, PTO, holidays.
- Dental and vision options.
- 401(k) with match.
ABOUT VERO
Founded in 2017 and based in Boulder, Colorado, Vero Networks designs, builds, owns and operates fiber infrastructure that serves retail consumers (FTTH), K-12 schools (E-Rate), government entities, enterprises, wireless and wireline carriers and hyperscale/cloud providers across the United States. Vero's key services include dark fiber, wide area networks, internet access, lit fiber and private fiber networks, delivered through a portfolio of operating brands that leverage a shared fiber backbone and construction capabilities.
NOTICES
Vero participates in E-Verify. Vero will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. For more information about E-Verify, please visit: www.e-verify.gov
This position requires the ability to pass a standard background check upon offer of position.
At least 2 professional references are required.
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