You are a seasoned HR or organizational development leader with over a decade of experience and at least three years in management. You have a bachelor's degree
Work type: onsite
Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Type: Full-time
You are a seasoned HR or organizational development leader with over a decade of experience and at least three years in management. You have a bachelor's degree and a proven background in driving large-scale digital or AI transformation initiatives within complex organizations. **What makes it worth a look...** Tekion is hiring for this full-time, on-site leadership role based in Pleasanton, California. You will define the workforce strategy for a company building an AI-native automotive platform, acting as a foundational partner to senior leadership in a new function. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have practical experience building and deploying AI agents using tools like Claude or OpenAI. * Possess deep expertise in workforce planning, job architecture, and organizational design. * Hold a background in change management frameworks such as Prosci or ADKAR. * Have hands-on experience facilitating AI transformation workshops for executive teams.
## About Tekion:
Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.
# This role is on site in Pleasanton, California
Job Summary
AI is changing the world — and at Tekion, we’re shaping how our people grow with it.
This is not a role about replacing what Tekionites do. It’s about expanding what they’re 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. You’ll also use AI as a core part of how you and your team operate, actively modeling the future we’re building together.
This is a brand-new role on a newly formed team — which means you’ll be building from the ground up, with the full support of the CPO and senior leadership. Some things are still taking shape, and that’s intentional: we want someone who thrives in that kind of environment, brings structure where it’s needed, and stays energized by ambiguity rather than derailed by it.
You’ll 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, you’ll be expected to use AI — including building and deploying AI agents in Claude and other platforms — to multiply your team’s impact and model the kind of AI-powered working that you’re asking others to adopt.
Workforce Planning & Job Architecture
Required Qualifications
You’re a builder, a connector, and a genuine believer in the power of people. You’ve sat in enough boardrooms to speak the language of strategy, and you’ve spent enough time with front-line teams to know that lasting change only happens when people feel seen, heard, and supported.
You’re genuinely excited about AI — not just as a concept, but as a tool you actively use, explore with curiosity, and love helping others demystify. You’ve personally stood in front of rooms full of skeptics and turned hesitation into enthusiasm. You know that the most effective change leaders don’t mandate adoption — they make the path feel natural, exciting, and worth walking.
You’re comfortable with ambiguity and don’t need a perfect playbook to get started. This is a new team and a new function, and some things are still being defined. You bring structure where it’s needed, stay flexible when it’s not, and remain tenacious in pursuing what matters most. You can operate resourcefully with a lean team — and you know how to use AI to make two people feel like ten.
You’re well-connected in the AI transformation community. You know who else is doing this well, you’re in conversations with peers at other companies, and you bring those insights back to inform what Tekion builds. You’re not just following trends — you’re helping set them.
At Tekion, you’ll need all of that — and we can’t wait to see what you build.
Tekion is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, victim of violence or having a family member who is a victim of violence, the intersectionality of two or more protected categories, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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