Senior AI Transformation & Strategy Leader

PIMCO Ltd. - Pacific Investment Management Company; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

PIMCO is seeking a seasoned Transformation and Strategic Change professional to lead AI-enabled, enterprise-wide initiatives across multiple business units in Newport Beach. You will map workflows, identify high-value use cases, and drive scalable solutions that enhance efficiency and ROI.

You will mentor engineers and strategists while partnering with Portfolio Management, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to ensure successful delivery of complex programs within PIMCO's ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Investment Management industry experience.
• Proven track record of leading technology-enabled change in large organizations.
• Proven success influencing senior stakeholders and aligning crossfunctional leaders around tradeoffs, operating-model changes, and funding decisions.
• Strong judgment on build/buy/partner decisions and the ability to negotiate scope, SLAs, and success criteria with internal and external partners.
• Hands-on experience redesigning target operating models across different functions.
• Strong capability to quantify business value—productivity gains, efficiency improvements, cost savings, or client experience enhancements—to support ROI modeling.
• Experience orchestrating solutions that combine information extraction, workflow automation, decision engines, and insight generation into end-to-end business processes.
• Exceptional executive communication—briefs complex topics crisply, frames decisions and risks, and writes clear, decision-ready materials.
• Ethical, intellectually curious, collaborative, organized, flexible, high energy, self-starter, accountable, humble.
• Formal training and strong interest in AI, data science, machine learning, finance theory.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple transformational projects that leverage AI and have broad impact across the firm.
• Map business and investment workflows and value-creation processes across all areas of the firm.
• Apply structured diagnostic and prioritization frameworks to evaluate processes, identify transformation opportunities, and select high-value use cases.
• Support IP leverage and scale-out of solutions across multiple transformation domains (e.g., legal, tax, onboarding, investment support).
• Collaborate with business leaders firm-wide to ensure the solutions are scalable, effective, and deliverable within PIMCO's ecosystem.
• Grow the team's transformation capabilities through embedded partnerships with business units.
• Mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers and Strategists in the team.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder influence

AI/Automation interest

Executive communication

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

End-to-end process design

Self-starter

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Economics/CS or related field

MBA or relevant master's preferred

Job description

PIMCO is seeking a seasoned Transformation and Strategic Change professional to lead AI-enabled, enterprise-wide initiatives across multiple business units in Newport Beach. You will map workflows, identify high-value use cases, and drive scalable solutions that enhance efficiency and ROI.

You will mentor engineers and strategists while partnering with Portfolio Management, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to ensure successful delivery of complex programs within PIMCO's ecosystem.