AI-Driven Transformation Leader

Olympia Development of Michigan; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Olympia Development of Michigan seeks a seasoned leader to drive AI adoption and transformative change across its organization in Detroit. You will coach teams, redesign workflows, and govern risk-sensitive information while delivering measurable value.

In this role, you will partner with IT and legal to ensure responsible AI usage, build knowledge assets, and push for faster decision-making through clearer insights and enterprise-wide standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field required.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in business transformation, strategy, operations, consulting, innovation, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated success leading organizational change and driving adoption of new processes or technology across multiple functions.
• Working fluency with AI and emerging technologies, with a clear focus on business application over technical depth.
• Proven ability to influence and align stakeholders across departments and at the executive level.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to brief and persuade senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the adoption of AI and new ways of working across ODM’s departments.
• Teach and coach the team on practical, everyday use of AI, building fluency from the ground up.
• Turn new tools into lasting habits, recognizing that most initiatives fail on behavior change, not technology.
• Identify where ODM should change how it operates, not simply where tools can be added.
• Redesign core processes to capture real gains rather than bolting AI onto existing workflows.
• Prioritize the highest-value opportunities and sequence the work so results are visible.
• Organize ODM’s institutional knowledge into a reusable resource for the team.
• Turn fragmented information across files and systems into accessible business intelligence.
• Ensure the business's accumulated experience becomes a durable organizational asset.
• Make legal and contractual knowledge easier to find, summarize, and act on across the business.
• Support faster, more reliable contract review, lease abstraction, and document comparison.
• Help leadership identify legal, contractual, and operational risk earlier.
• Partner with the legal team and outside counsel to improve both efficiency and insight.
• Lead applied innovation on high-impact industry problems, including faster and more accurate construction cost estimating.
• Bring forward creative, well-vetted solutions that create competitive advantage, not just efficiency.
• Help senior leaders spend less time on administrative and routine analytical work and more time on judgment, relationships, negotiation, and decision-making.
• Increase the organization’s capacity to evaluate opportunities and reach sound decisions without adding senior headcount.
• Strengthen leadership decision-making through faster, clearer synthesis of complex information.

Skills

Leadership

Change management

AI fluency

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Business transformation

Decision-making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Olympia Development of Michigan seeks a seasoned leader to drive AI adoption and transformative change across its organization in Detroit. You will coach teams, redesign workflows, and govern risk-sensitive information while delivering measurable value.

In this role, you will partner with IT and legal to ensure responsible AI usage, build knowledge assets, and push for faster decision-making through clearer insights and enterprise-wide standards.