Executive Leader, AI Work Design & Architecture

GE Aerospace; Barrington (IL); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance provided

Health, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company matching

Tuition assistance

Paid parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Paid time-off

Job summary

GE Aerospace seeks an Executive Leader for AI Work Design & Architecture to shape the future of work. You will project how AI augments or changes jobs, build heatmaps, and lead enterprise-wide redesigns around AI investments.

Collaborate with HR, tech and business leaders to inform capability building and talent redeployment. The role requires deep experience in job taxonomy, workforce strategy, and executive storytelling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in a related field is required.
• Experience designing job architecture and work design at enterprise scale.
• Ability to translate emerging technology into workforce implications.
• Proven ability to influence senior leadership and executives.
• Knowledge of future-of-work trends, skills-based practices and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead evergreen projections of how AI interacts with tasks (augmentation, automation, expansion).
• Heatmap forecasted changes for jobs across the enterprise.
• Redesign work aligned with AI investments and enterprise strategy.
• Forecast AI interaction with required skills and career pathways.
• Own market-informed job taxonomy development and governance.

Skills

Executive leadership

Forecasting

AI/work design

Stakeholder management

Heatmapping

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, HR, organizational development or related

Graduate degree in related discipline

Job description

Job Description Summary

GE Aerospace is developing a forward-looking AI workforce strategy ensuring the organization is prepared for how work, roles, and skills will evolve in the age of artificial intelligence. With a passion for amplifying what our people do best, unlocking new and higher-value work, and growing the human capabilities that will define the next era of aerospace, GE has created the AI workforce strategy function sitting at the intersection of the CHRO and the Chief Data & AI Officer.

Reporting to the Head of AI Workforce Strategy & Capability, the Executive Leader-AI Work Design & Architecture guides the enterprise in designing the future of work, informing how work is composed between people and agents across the enterprise. Building from the enterprise job taxonomy, AI inference, and market research, this role projects how AI will interact with jobs, tasks and skills. This role will lead the heatmapping of jobs across the enterprise, to forecast where and how AI will touch the future of work. As AI integrates with roles and teams, this leader partners with HR, business leaders, and technology leaders to understand how AI can amplify the human, surface common opportunities across departments, as catalyst and validation for enterprise investment, org design, and talent redeployment.

Job Description

Leads AI work composition projections

• Own the evergreen projection of how AI interacts with tasks (e.g., augmentation, automation, expansion)
• Synthesizes and heatmaps the forecasted change for jobs across the enterprise
• Leads the redesign of work alongside the AI investments of the office of the Chief Data and AI Officer
• Leads the enterprise perspective on external market developments in AI capability, human and agent interaction and job design

Leads the AI and adjacent capability demand forecast

• Establishes the skills and proficiencies required for jobs across the enterprise taxonomy
• Forecasts how AI interacts with those skills
• Infers the adjacent skills and prerequisite skills required for redesigned jobs as a critical source to inform both future capability building as well as career pathways for talent redeployment

Leads the Foundational Job Taxonomy

• Own market-informed titles, job families and role profiles as enterprise architecture, including the change-control process through which they are amended
• Lead the transformation of the job taxonomy towards an enterprise catalog and governance structure

Creates Career pathways for AI redeployment

• Develop the enterprise career-pathways that leverage adjacent skills to inform talent redeployment when AI efficiency or job redesign creates a move adjacent work

Organizational Design

• Partner consultatively with the business, HR, technology teams and integrated talent leaders on organizational design where roles change because of AI, bringing the task evidence and the skills projections
• Consult on team composition, employee and team capacity, and downstream implications for technology

Please note, preferred work location is Evendale, OH, however, remote employment will also be considered. Ability and willingness to travel at least 25%.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, human resources, organizational development, industrial-organizational psychology, technology or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of experience across job architecture, work design, organizational design or effectiveness, and workforce strategy, including accountability for an enterprise-wide job or work-design outcome.
• Experience with job taxonomy design and decomposing work at task level, and translating emerging technology into workforce and organizational implications.
• Demonstrated accountability for a method, specification or standard adopted outside your own reporting line.
• Deep working knowledge of talent market intelligence / talent market research and how to apply it to enterprise strategies
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate senior-level decision making, synthesize complex inputs, and build executive-ready narratives that clarify choices, risks, and tradeoffs
• Knowledge of future-of-work trends, workforce transformation, operating model evolution, skills-based workforce practices, location strategy, and automation or AI enabled workforce implications
• Experience in organizational design, delivered consultatively with business leadership.
• Experience assessing external technology or AI solution capability against operational use, including independent judgment of vendor claims.
• Experience working cross-functionally across HR, technology and business leadership in a large, complex organization.
• Experience leading a team, including hiring, developing and directing senior professionals.
• Strong ability to forge new territories where best practice and playbooks do not exist, and problem solve/solution
• Ability to develop credible influence as a collaborator with stakeholders.
• Strong executive communicator with experience in moving from data to storytelling.
• Strong systems thinker with the ability to connect underlying strategy, underlying technology and anticipate downstream needs or issues.

Desired Characteristics

• Graduate degree in business, organizational psychology, industrial-organizational psychology or a related discipline; peer-reviewed publication a plus.
• Working knowledge of strategic workforce planning
• Experience applying talent intelligence and data based decision-making
• Deep expertise with measurement strategies, ROI and demonstrating impact.
• Organizational design and effectiveness depth at scale, including STAR Model or equivalent expertise.
• Ability to design new strategies and methodology where best practice and playbooks do not exist
• Experience in an environment where job definitions carry contractual or regulatory weight.
• Fluency with job-data systems of record and what they will and will not support.
• Working knowledge of generative AI and agentic systems and their effect on knowledge and technical work.
• Experience across legal, privacy and employee-representation counterparts on the representation of jobs and tasks.
• Published or presented externally on work design, job architecture or the future of work.

The base pay range for this position is 200,000 - 300,000 annually. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors,including the candidate’s experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. You are equity eligible. This posting is expected to close on December 10, 2026

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness. GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights_10_20.pdf). Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable). Employees may also be subject to random and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol testing.

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position

GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.