Navigator, Corporate Services, Global

Navigator, Corporate Services, Global

This role is based in Denver, CO with a flexible work arrangement: 3 days on-site and 2 days remote.

The Navigator, Corporate Services, Global serves as a trusted advisor and discovery catalyst embedded within Vantage's Corporate Services function. This role acts as the critical bridge between business operations and AI possibilities, translating operational friction points into validated opportunities for AI-driven transformation. Rather than managing programs or building solutions, this Navigator discovers, validates, and prepares high-impact AI opportunities for rapid prototyping by the Accelerators team.

Operating as an embedded AI business partner, this role focuses on AI transformation across Vantage's corporate services functions including Finance, Accounting, Legal, Compliance, and People & Culture. This Navigator serves as the embedded business partner for enterprise-enabling functions, identifying opportunities where AI can streamline financial operations, accelerate legal review processes, strengthen compliance monitoring, and enhance the employee experience across the full talent lifecycle.

This position represents the front line of Vantage's AI transformation within Corporate Services, where strategic vision meets operational reality. Success requires equal parts business acumen, technical fluency, and the interpersonal skills to build trust across diverse stakeholders who may be skeptical, curious, or enthusiastic about AI's potential.

Essential Job Functions

• Embed within Corporate Services functions to build trusted relationships with leaders across Finance, Accounting, Legal, Compliance, and People & Culture, becoming the go-to resource for AI opportunity identification in enterprise-enabling workflows.
• Conduct structured discovery sessions to map current state workflows across financial planning, accounts payable/receivable, contract management, compliance monitoring, talent acquisition, performance management, and employee services, identifying where AI can eliminate constraints and reduce manual effort.
• Translate corporate services challenges into preliminary AI use cases, assessing feasibility against available data in ERP, HRIS, contract management, and compliance systems, and organizational readiness for process transformation.
• Validate AI opportunities through rapid assessment of business value potential, evaluating impact on process cycle times, error reduction, compliance risk mitigation, cost savings, and employee satisfaction improvements.
• Develop detailed intake documentation capturing business context, data source inventory across enterprise systems (ERP, HRIS, CLM, GRC), integration requirements, regulatory considerations, and preliminary success criteria for the Accelerators team.
• Maintain deep understanding of corporate governance frameworks, regulatory compliance requirements, financial controls, and employment law considerations that constrain and inform AI opportunity assessment in corporate services.
• Champion responsible AI principles with particular attention to sensitive data handling in HR contexts, attorney-client privilege considerations in legal workflows, and SOX compliance requirements in financial processes.
• Build a champion network within Corporate Services, identifying process owners, analysts, and operational leaders who can amplify AI adoption and provide feedback on prototype solutions.
• Monitor emerging AI capabilities for corporate functions including intelligent document processing, automated compliance monitoring, predictive analytics for workforce planning, and contract analysis to identify new opportunity patterns.

Duties

• Conduct regular listening tours within Finance, Legal, People & Culture, and Compliance to understand evolving priorities, pain points, and regulatory changes that could benefit from AI augmentation.
• Facilitate workshops that help corporate services leaders envision AI transformation beyond basic document automation, exploring predictive analytics, intelligent workflow routing, and decision support capabilities.
• Document opportunity assessments capturing business impact, system integration…