Director, Change Management & Transformation Services, GISI Ignite

Director, Change Management & Transformation Services, GISI Ignite

About GISI Ignite and Palladium:

GISI is a global, employee-owned family of companies focused on construction, infrastructure, earth and environment, and global development.

GISI Ignite is GISI's newly launched centralized technology and innovationteam, built to strengthen how our operating companies deliver projects and provide expert guidance on AI, data, and digital solutions. We developscalable platforms, drive workflow modernization, and help operating companies apply cyber-physical solutions that strengthen the performance, resilience, andsafety of major capital programs.

Palladium, a GISI company, works to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe;broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring,sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90countries and have a workforce of 2,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff aroundthe world.

This role is hired through Palladium, the operational platform for Ignite.

This Opportunity:

GISI Ignite is seeking a Director, Change Management &Transformation Services to be responsible for establishing, scaling, and leading a comprehensive change management practice that supports both internalenterprise digital transformation initiatives and external client engagements.

This role serves as a strategic advisor to executive leaders, shapesorganizational change strategies for complex digital and business transformation sand builds sustainable change capabilities across the global operating companies.

The Directorbalances hands on leadership of high impact transformation efforts with long-term practice development, service innovation, and talent growth. This role plays acritical part in ensuring that transformation initiatives deliver sustainedvalue by aligning people, processes, leadership behaviors, and culture with strategic objectives.


Location:

This is a full-time, hybrid position basedout of one of GISI's office locations in these areas:
New York, NY, Arlington,VA, Denver, CO, or Newport Beach, CA, with potential client travel. Thisrole, while posted in multiple locations, is for only one opening.

Compensation:

For our prospective employees in the United States, please note that the full-timeequivalent annual base salary for this position is expected to range from $180,000- $210,000.

Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based onvarious factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education,experience, skills, seniority, performance, and GISI/Palladium's business ororganizational needs.

Reporting Lines:

• The role reports to a Director, GISI Ignite
• Initially, this position will not include direct supervisory duties; however, these responsibilities may be introduced as the business evolves over time

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

Enterprise & Internal Change Leadership

• Lead change strategy for major internal enterprise initiatives, primarily focused on enterprise-level digital transformation
• Advise executive sponsors and senior leaders on change readiness, stakeholder alignment, adoption risks, and leadership actions
• Establish governance models and decision frameworks for managing change across complex, multi initiative portfolios
• Translate enterprise technology and innovation initiative roadmaps into actionable change strategies, ensuring alignment across operating companies
• Build internal change maturity by embedding change management practices into enterprise delivery and operating models

External Client Advisory & Delivery Oversight

• Serve as a trusted, executive level advisor to clients on complex organizational and digital transformation efforts
• Lead or oversee large scale, multistakeholder change initiatives across diverse client environments
• Ensure client engagements deliver measurable adoption, readiness, and value realization outcomes
• Work with client service teams to apply best standards and ensure effective delivery of change management advisory services

Practice & Service Line Leadership

• Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the change management and organizational transformation practice
• Design, incubate, and scale repeatable change management service offerings, methodologies, tools, and frameworks
• Establish delivery standards, quality controls, and success metrics to ensure consistent, high impact outcomes
• Partner with growth, sales, and account leaders to support business development, proposal development, and client pursuits
• Identify emerging trends and opportunities to expand or evolve the practice (e.g., digital adoption, transformation readiness, leadership enablement)
• Build, mentor, and lead a high performing team of change management professionals

Measurement & Outcomes

• Define and track success metrics related to adoption, stakeholder readiness, and sustained value realization
• Identify and proactively…