OCM Transformation Lead for Enterprise Change

VideoRay; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with company match

9/80 work schedule

Paid holidays

Job summary

AeroVironment, based in California, seeks an Organizational Change Management (OCM) Lead to drive the people side of change across strategic organizational initiatives and program-level efforts within the DBT Transformation Office.

You will partner with CIO leaders, program teams, and Learning & Development to embed structured OCM, ensuring changes are understood, adopted, reinforced, and sustained to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Change Management, Organizational Development, Business, Communications, Human Resources, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 7+ years of experience leading organizational change, transformation, organizational effectiveness, or large-scale technology and business change initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience supporting both enterprise organizational transformation and complex program implementations.
• Strong knowledge of structured OCM methodologies and practices, including change impact, stakeholder, readiness, resistance, communications, and adoption planning.

Responsibilities

• Work with the CIO and DBT leaders to develop and execute a DBT-wide change strategy and framework aligned with the Transformation Office vision, roadmap, and Transformation Initiative Backlog.
• Lead change efforts across people and culture, process excellence, policy and governance, tools and technology, brand and communications, and customer and BRM partnerships.
• Drive organizational effectiveness initiatives that strengthen engagement, collaboration, accountability, leadership effectiveness, workforce capabilities, and continuous improvement.
• Build leadership alignment, sponsorship, and ownership for transformation priorities, preparing leaders and managers to communicate and reinforce change.
• Partner with Communications to advance the One DBT narrative and communicate what is changing, why it matters, progress, wins, and expected behaviors.
• Establish reusable OCM methods, standards, templates, tools, governance, and a consolidated change calendar to embed change management as a sustained DBT capability.
• Assess stakeholder impacts, readiness, resistance, adoption risks, and capacity for assigned programs, and translate findings into actionable OCM and mitigation plans.
• Develop and execute integrated plans for communications, stakeholder engagement, sponsorship, readiness, training coordination, resistance management, reinforcement, and adoption.
• Partner with Program Managers to integrate OCM activities, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, and success measures into program plans.
• Work with the LM Lead to translate change impacts into training, job aids, knowledge resources, upskilling, and reinforcement strategies.
• Partner with the business to define success criteria—including customer satisfaction—and establish methods to measure, report, and drive intended outcomes from program initiation through post-launch adoption.
• Support go-live readiness and post-implementation stabilization to sustain adoption and transition changes into operations. Capture lessons learned, address adoption gaps, and continuously improve DBT’s OCM methodology and organizational change capability.

Skills

OCM methodologies

Influence executives

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Communication

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Organizational Change Management or related field

Job description

AeroVironment, based in California, seeks an Organizational Change Management (OCM) Lead to drive the people side of change across strategic organizational initiatives and program-level efforts within the DBT Transformation Office.

You will partner with CIO leaders, program teams, and Learning & Development to embed structured OCM, ensuring changes are understood, adopted, reinforced, and sustained to deliver measurable business value.