This role is on site in Pleasanton California

Job Summary

AI is changing the world and atTekionwereshaping how our people grow with it.

This is not a role about replacing what Tekionites do. Its about expanding what theyre capable of.

As our Director AI Transformation & Enablement you will architect the strategy programs and frameworks that help every Tekionite from individual contributors to senior leaders understand embrace and leverage AI as a genuine superpower in their everyday work. Youll also use AI as a core part of how you and your team operate actively modeling the future were building together.

This a brand-new role on a newly formed team which means youll be building from the ground up with the full support of the CPO and senior leadership. Some things are still taking shape and thats intentional: we want someone who thrives in that kind of environment brings structure where its needed and stays energized by ambiguity rather than derailed by it.

Youll lead a lean but mighty team of 2 partnering with cross-functional leaders across the business to define what the future of work at Tekion looks like for a company that is itself building the AI products transforming an entire industry. With a small team youll be expected to use AI including building and deploying AI agents in Claude and other platforms to multiply your teams impact and model the kind of AI-powered working that youre asking others to adopt.

Workforce Planning & Job Architecture

• Build andmaintaina forward-looking workforce planning framework that maps current talent capabilities against future AI-augmented skill needs

• Lead a comprehensive job architecture redesign that reflects how roles and work are evolving ensuring clarity equity and alignment across job families levels and career paths

• Partner with HR Business Partners and business leaders toidentifyskill gaps and co-design targeted upskilling and reskilling pathways

• Develop a data-driven approach to talent planning using people analytics and AI-powered tools to helpTekionmake smarter faster decisions about where and how to grow

• Advise on human-AI collaboration models and how roles may evolve as AI capabilities expand

Talent Management

• Embed AI fluency and enablement into key talent processes including hiring onboarding performance management and career development in partnership with L&D HRBPs and Talent Acquisition

• Design capability frameworks and learning pathways that helpTekionitesbuild careers that evolve alongside AI not in competition with it

• Identifyand develop AI champions and early adopters who can help scale enablement peer-to-peer across the organization

• Ensure talent programs reflect the changing nature of work and positionTekionas a place where people come to grow into their best future selves

Team Leadership & Execution

• Lead develop and grow a lean team of 2 people professionals using AI tools and agents to multiply the teams output andoperateabove your headcount

• Build and deploy AI agents in Claude and other platforms to automate and accelerate team workflows from content development to program reporting and stakeholder communications

• Set clear goals OKRs and success metrics and track meaningful impact across all programs and initiatives

• Operate with a startup mindset in a fast-moving resource-constrainedenvironmentandbe tenacious about achieving goals resourceful in how you get there and flexible as priorities evolve in this new and growing function

• Stay actively connected to the external AI transformation community bringing best practices emerging trends and peer benchmarks back intoTekionsstrategy on an ongoing basis

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of progressive HR People Operations organizational development or management consulting experience with at least 35 years managing teams (consulting background a strong bonus)

• Demonstrated experience leading AI technology digital transformation or other large-scale transformation initiatives with a strong people and change management lens

• Proventrack recordin change management ideally with formalmethodologyexperience (Prosci/ADKAR Kotter or similar frameworks)

• Experience personallyfacilitatingand conducting AI transformation training and workshops at other companies not just designing programs or managing others who deliver them

• Experience designing AI transformation training curricula or capability programs with the ability to build and iterate content rapidly based on learner feedback

• Demonstrated ability to build and use AI agents (e.g. in Claude OpenAI or similar platforms) to automate workflows enhance productivity or deliver better outcomes with a small team

• Active hands-on use of AI tools (generative AI copilots productivity assistants) as a meaningful part of your day-to-day professional work

• Experience in workforce planning organizational design and/or job architecture redesign

• Experience working with and coaching senior leaders and executives through significant organizational change

• Exceptional executive communication and storytelling skills able to inspire align and influence at all levels without always having direct authority

• Bachelors degree in Human Resources Organizational Development Business or a related field or equivalent professional experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in a large management consulting or HR consulting firm (e.g. Deloitte McKinsey Mercer Accenture Korn Ferry) PLUS hands-on in-house experience at a mid-size high-growth tech company

• Strong active external network within the AI transformation and future-of-work community with relationships at peer companies doing leading AI internal adoption work

• Experience with Workday HCM and/or AI-powered HR technology platforms

• Track recordof building and scaling people programs from the ground up in a fast-moving resource-constrained tech environment

• Experience designing enterprise capability academies AI literacy programs or large-scale learning journeys

• Exposure to automotive enterprise SaaS or B2B technology industries (a plus not a requirement)

WHO YOU ARE

Youre a builder a connector and a genuine believer in the power of people. Youve sat in enough boardrooms to speak the language of strategy and youve spent enough time with front-line teams to know that lasting change only happens when people feel seen heard and supported.