AI Adoption Lead

AHEAD; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid company holidays

Paid time off

Paid parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking an AI Adoption Lead to drive human-centered AI transformation within a business unit. You will pair change management with coaching, redesign roles, and build capacity for AI-enabled workflows.

This role reports to the VP, Talent and Workforce Transformation and focuses on readiness, governance, and capability uplift. Responsibilities include designing BU-level AI change strategies, building champions networks, and embedding responsible AI practices while guiding managers and

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, or related field, or equivalent applied experience.
• 4-8 years in change management, internal/management consulting, HR transformation, org effectiveness, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale technology or digital transformation from the people side.
• Strong grasp of change management frameworks and ability to adapt them to AI contexts.
• Experience in role design, job architecture, or organizational assessment.
• Ability to build trust and credibility with business unit leaders and frontline employees as a consultative partner.
• Data literacy with adoption metrics/workforce analytics to drive decisions.
• Personal proficiency with AI tools and enthusiasm for AI-augmented work.

Responsibilities

• Design BU-level AI change strategy and adoption plans.
• Develop stakeholder engagement plans and resistance mapping.
• Build a network of champions and superusers within the BU.
• Monitor adoption signals and adjust interventions based on data.
• Address employee anxiety and foster psychological safety around AI work.
• Conduct systematic task deconstruction across BU roles to identify automation/augmentation.
• Redesign job descriptions and role profiles for AI-augmented work.
• Define AI-augmented career pathways and transition plans.
• Assess AI fluency and identify skill gaps across functions and levels.
• Co-design targeted learning programs for technical, workflow, and mindset aspects.
• Integrate AI capability-building into daily workflows and manager enablement.
• Track capability uplift against transformation milestones.
• Build a culture of active participation in AI transformation and address equity concerns.
• Embed responsible AI practices, governance, and transparency into team norms.
• Coach managers to lead AI-augmented teams and run manager learning programs.
• Own the BU's adoption measurement framework and design metrics.
• Instrument adoption data and translate into actionable insights.
• Surface informal AI use and channel into governed adoption.
• Track adoption health across tenure, function, and generation.
• Provide BU intelligence to inform org-wide strategy.

Skills

Change management

Internal consulting

HR transformation

Org effectiveness

Data analytics

AI tools

Stakeholder management

Education

Master's or PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology/Organizational Behavior

4-8 years in change management/OD roles

Experience leading large-scale technology or digital transformation

Knowledge of change management frameworks

Experience in role design/job architecture/organizational assessment

Ability to work with business unit leaders and frontline employees

Data literacy with adoption metrics/workforce analytics

Proficiency with AI tools and AI-augmented work

Tools

AI tools

Job description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

The AI Adoption Lead is AHEAD’s embedded human answer to the gap between AI deployment and realized value. This is a people‑first, business‑embedded transformation role, part change manager, part coach , and part internal consultant, dedicated to a specific business unit (BU). Reporting to the VP, Talent and Workforce Transformation, the AI Adoption Lead ensures that the business unit’s employees are genuinely ready to work alongside AI: with the right skills, redesigned roles, reimagined workflows, and the confidence to operate in a continuously evolving environment.

Duties/Responsibilities

AI Change Strategy & Adoption

• Design and consult on a BU-level AI change strategy, moving employees from AI experimenters to AI accelerators
• Develop and run stakeholder engagement plans, including resistance mapping and influence strategies
• Build a network of champions and superusers within the BU to sustain adoption momentum
• Monitor adoption signals and adjust interventions based on real-time uptake data
• Address employee anxiety and build psychological safety around AI‑augmented work

Role & Job Redesign

• Conduct systematic task deconstruction across BU roles to identify what AI automates, augments, or creates
• Redesign job descriptions and role profiles to reflect new human–AI responsibilities
• Work with BU leaders to define new AI-augmented job families and career pathways
• Identify roles at risk of displacement and proactively design transition pathways

Capability & Skill Building

• Assess BU-level AI fluency and identify skill gaps across functions, levels, and workforce segments
• Commission or co-design targeted learning programs — technical, workflow, and mindset
• Integrate AI capability‑building into daily workflows, not just stand‑alone training events
• Develop manager enablement specifically for leading AI‑augmented teams
• Track and report on capability uplift against BU transformation milestones

Culture & Responsible AI

• Build a culture of active participation in AI transformation, not passive compliance
• Surface and address fear, mistrust, and equity concerns across BU employee groups
• Embed responsible AI practices , transparency, human validation, governance , into team norms

Manager Enablement

• Coach and equip managers to lead AI‑augmented teams, orchestrating humans and AI agents together, not just using AI tools themselves
• Run dedicated BU manager learning programs focused on judgment, coaching, and human–AI workflow oversight

Adoption Measurement & Intelligence

• Own the BU's AI adoption measurement framework , design and instrument metrics, not just report on them
• Instrument and analyze adoption data (usage, frequency, depth) to make it accessible and actionable
• Surface informal and shadow AI use within the BU and channel it into governed, productive adoption
• Track adoption health across workforce segments including tenure, function, generation, and role level
• Feed BU intelligence upward into the Hive Transformation Office to inform org‑wide strategy

Education And Experience

Minimum Required:

• Master's or PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, or a related field - or equivalent applied experience
• 4-8 years in change management, internal or management consulting, HR transformation, org effectiveness, or related people and OD roles
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale technology or digital transformation from the people side
• Strong grasp of change management frameworks and ability to adapt them to AI contexts
• Experience in role design, job architecture, or organizational assessment
• Ability to build trust and credibility with business unit leaders and frontline employees as a consultative thought partner
• Data literacy with comfort using adoption metrics and workforce analytics to drive decisions
• Personal proficiency with AI tools and genuine enthusiasm for AI‑augmented work

Preferred

• Experience embedded in a business unit or in a client‑facing consulting capacity (not just HR or CoE roles)
• Exposure to agentic AI, automation workflow design, or human‑in‑the‑loop process redesign
• Background in learning & development or capability‑building at scale
• Applied experience in assessment, survey design, or behavioral measurement
• Industry knowledge aligned to the target business unit
• Certification or coursework in AI transformation leadership

$110,000 - $150,000 a year

Why AHEAD

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top‑notch technologies in a multi‑million‑dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

USA Employment Benefits Include

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid company holidays
• Paid time off
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.

Use Of AI

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.

If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at [email protected].

You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.