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 roleaboutreplacing expanding whattheyrecapable of.

As our Director AI Transformation & Enablement you will architect the strategy programs and frameworks that help everyTekionite from individual contributors to senior leaders understand embrace andleverageAI as a genuine superpower in their everyday use AI as a core part of how you and your teamoperate actively modeling the futurewerebuilding together.

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

Youlllead a lean but mighty team of 2 partnering with cross-functional leaders across the business to define what the future of work atTekionlooks like for a company that is itself building the AI products transforming an entire industry. With a small teamyoullbe 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 thatyoureasking 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

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