AI Transformation & Change Lead

AHEAD; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid company holidays

Paid time off

Parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking an AI Adoption Lead to drive people-centric AI transformation within a designated Business Unit. You will shape change strategy, redesign roles, and build capabilities to ensure AI-augmented work is adopted with psychological safety and measurable impact.

Reporting to the VP of Talent and Workforce Transformation, you will lead stakeholder engagement, monitor adoption, and develop manager enablement to scale AI across the BU.

Qualifications

• 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
• Experience embedded in a business unit or in a client-facing consulting capacity
• Exposure to agentic AI, automation workflow design, or human-in-the-loop process redesign.

Responsibilities

• Design and consult on a BU-level AI change strategy.
• 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.
• Conduct systematic task deconstruction across BU roles to identify what AI automates or augments.
• 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 design transition pathways.
• Assess BU-level AI fluency and identify skill gaps across functions, levels, and segments.
• Commission or co-design targeted learning programs - technical, workflow, and mindset.
• Integrate AI capability-building into daily workflows, not just training events.
• Develop manager enablement for leading AI-augmented teams.
• Track and report on capability uplift against BU milestones.
• Own the BU's AI adoption measurement framework and metrics.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Role design

Data literacy

AI tools familiarity

Learning program design

Capability-building

Education

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

4-8 years in change management or related fields

Tools

AI tools

HR analytics software

Job description

AHEAD is seeking an AI Adoption Lead to drive people-centric AI transformation within a designated Business Unit. You will shape change strategy, redesign roles, and build capabilities to ensure AI-augmented work is adopted with psychological safety and measurable impact.

Reporting to the VP of Talent and Workforce Transformation, you will lead stakeholder engagement, monitor adoption, and develop manager enablement to scale AI across the BU.