Strategic Enterprise Transformation Leader

UKG Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 241,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking an Enterprise Transformation Lead to drive high-priority transformations across the organization. In this senior individual contributor role, you will partner with executive sponsors and leaders from Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, Finance, Product and Technology to turn complex priorities into clear initiatives with measurable outcomes.

You will guide cross-functional teams, influence without direct authority, and ensure delivery from framing through adoption.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience leading complex business transformations, enterprise programs, or cross-functional initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead senior business stakeholders through ambiguous, high-impact challenges.
• Experience aligning leaders across multiple functions around shared outcomes, decisions and accountabilities.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and make progress in a matrixed organization.
• Experience translating strategy into an actionable initiative with clear outcomes, ownership and decision-making.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to connect business process, technology, data, people and change considerations in one integrated view.
• Sound judgment, adaptability and comfort working in an environment where priorities and solutions evolve.

Responsibilities

• Lead selected enterprise transformations from framing through implementation, adoption and outcome review.
• Partner with executive sponsors and business leaders to define the problem, intended outcomes, scope, success measures and key decisions.
• Bring cross-functional leaders together to align priorities, clarify ownership and resolve differences in perspective or organizational goals.
• Connect business, technology, data, AI and operational considerations in one integrated view of the transformation.
• Work with Program Managers to maintain visibility into milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions and delivery progress across participating teams.
• Partner with Process & Experience Design to shape future processes, roles and customer or employee experiences with business owners.
• Partner with Change & Adoption to prepare leaders and employees for new ways of working and support sustained adoption.
• Identify barriers early and engage the right business and functional leaders to address issues that threaten outcomes or timing.
• Keep the initiative focused on business results, adjusting scope or approach as value, feasibility and capacity become clearer.
• Communicate progress, tradeoffs and decisions clearly to executives, business leaders and delivery teams.
• Capture lessons from each transformation and help strengthen UKG’s approach to cross-functional change.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Matrix leadership

Strategy to outcomes

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Change management

Problem solving

Adaptability

Business-IT alignment

Job description

UKG is seeking an Enterprise Transformation Lead to drive high-priority transformations across the organization. In this senior individual contributor role, you will partner with executive sponsors and leaders from Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, Finance, Product and Technology to turn complex priorities into clear initiatives with measurable outcomes.

You will guide cross-functional teams, influence without direct authority, and ensure delivery from framing through adoption.