Strategic Transformation Director - AI Solutions

The Strategic Transformation Director, AI Solutions is responsible for setting and safeguarding the strategic direction of the organization’s market-facing AI and automation products, ensuring that the work delivered across the program remains aligned with the overall product vision, the target design, and the intended integration into client service delivery.

This role reports directly to the Vice President, Products & Innovation and acts as the senior strategic and subject-matter leader for the transformation of the organization’s client-facing AI product portfolio. The role defines what the product proposition needs to achieve, how the different capabilities should work together, and how individual workstreams contribute to the overall vision, enabling the Vice President, Products &
Innovation to focus on executive-level decisions and priorities.

The role ensures that product strategy, AI and automation expertise, commercial and go-to-market readiness, and delivery execution come together as one coherent effort. This is a cross-functional leadership role rather than the owner of a single workstream, and it works in close partnership with a Program Lead who owns day-to-day delivery planning, coordination, and execution.

The Strategic Transformation Director partners closely with product management, delivery leadership, commercial and operations teams, and business stakeholders to translate the product vision into practical, scalable, and commercially valuable outcomes.

• Define and safeguard the strategic direction of the organization’s market-facing AI and automation product transformation, ensuring that all delivery remains aligned to the overall product vision and target design.
• Act as the principal subject-matter expert on AI and automation product design, advising leadership on what the product proposition must achieve and how the different capabilities should work together.
• Determine how individual workstreams contribute to the overall vision, and judge whether the program is building the right capabilities to succeed in the market.
• Identify when technology, product, commercial, or client developments require a change in direction, and clearly articulate the required change to leadership and delivery teams.
• Partner with the Program Lead to translate strategic direction into a coordinated delivery plan, ensuring that identified changes are incorporated and executed without disrupting delivery momentum.
• Maintain coherence across the transformation by connecting product strategy, AI and automation expertise, go-to-market readiness, and delivery, so that separate workstreams do not become siloed.
• Partner with product management to ensure that individual product decisions remain connected to the broader transformation vision and coordinated with the outputs of other workstreams.
• Ensure the AI and automation product portfolio is designed around real client needs, practical adoption, and measurable commercial value
• Establish the governance model and clear ownership boundaries early, so that accountability across the leadership group and workstreams is well understood.
• Act as a trusted strategic partner to Products & Innovation leadership, surfacing the decisions that require executive authority and providing clear recommendations on priorities, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies.
• Support the movement of market-facing propositions from concept and early proof points through to demonstrable, scalable client value.
• Collaborate with commercial, operations, legal, compliance, and external partners to ensure that solutions can scale responsibly across the business and the market.
• Provide transparency on strategic progress, risks, and direction through clear and timely communication to senior stakeholders and executive forums.
• Stay informed about emerging AI, automation, and product trends, and assess how these capabilities can create practical value for the organization and its clients.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION & JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Significant experience in a strategic transformation, product leadership, or transformation office role on an enterprise AI, data, digital, or cloud transformation program.
• Deep subject-matter expertise in AI and automation-driven product transformation, with the credibility to set direction for a cross-functional program.
• Executive-level stakeholder management, including experience influencing senior and C-suite audiences without relying on formal authority.
• Experience with product or platform rollout, along with strong governance and decision-management discipline.
• Experience in workforce solutions, HR technology, managed service provider environments, SaaS, platform businesses, or contingent workforce management is preferred but not required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Skilled in communicating effectively verbally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to communicate complex topics clearly to executive and non-technical audiences, including options, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and recommended decisions.
• Familiarity with modern delivery approaches sufficient to partner effectively with delivery leadership is strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to define and safeguard a product vision and translate it into clear capability requirements across multiple workstreams.
• Demonstrated ability to work alongside a program or delivery lead without duplicating delivery management responsibilities.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

It’s an exciting time to be part of our team. We’re proud to be a global thought-leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000+ colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally.

You’ll have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways to achieve total balance between the demands of their jobs and their lives. That’s why we give you the autonomy and support you need to work in the way that makes you most productive, agile, confident and insightful.

Putting people first, pioneering with a collective spirit and always advancing with a growth mindset -that’s what we stand for at the Adecco Group. Here, we are all individuals with a unique perspective on the world we live in. That’s what makes us stronger. Whoever you are and whatever your background, you can be yourself. So, we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you. We offer a range of world-class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while the sharing skills, knowledge and expertise to grow together.

Make an impact where it matters most.

Posting date: 31-08-2026