AI-Native Operating Model Lead Architect

Avanade; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanade seeks a senior operating model and workforce transformation leader for Avanade Next. This role owns AI-related changes to work itself—roles, teams, decision rights, and workforce capability—across APAC, with a focus on scalable operating models and governance.

You will advise Boards and C-suite leaders on how AI redefines the organization, drive designed mandates, and partner across industry, clients, and Microsoft to turn demand into signed transformation work.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in operating model, organisation design or workforce transformation in a major consulting environment.
• Experience implementing enterprise-scale operating model change.
• Substantive understanding of agentic systems and supervision requirements.
• Strong grounding in governance, accountability, decision rights and management system design.
• CXO credibility with COOs, Chief People Officers and transformation leaders.
• Experience designing governance, accountability and control structures in regulated settings.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI-Native Models & Ways of Working domain across APAC.
• Lead design of AI-native operating models, workforce structures and leadership practices that can scale.
• Build Avanade Next credibility on the future of work, human-agent teams and AI-enabled management systems, with clients, Microsoft and the wider ecosystem.
• Advise Boards, CEOs, COOs and Chief People Officers on how AI changes the organisation, the work and the leadership model around it.
• Originate and shape mandates where operating model, workforce or ways of working are central to transformation.
• Partner with Industry Leads, Account Teams and Microsoft account teams to turn workforce and operating model demand into signed work.

Skills

Operating model design

Organisation design

Workforce transformation

Governance and accountability

Executive credibility with COOs/Chiefs

Regulated settings governance

Job description

Avanade seeks a senior operating model and workforce transformation leader for Avanade Next. This role owns AI-related changes to work itself—roles, teams, decision rights, and workforce capability—across APAC, with a focus on scalable operating models and governance.

You will advise Boards and C-suite leaders on how AI redefines the organization, drive designed mandates, and partner across industry, clients, and Microsoft to turn demand into signed transformation work.