Enterprise Transformation Design at Slalom, San Francisco, California

Enterprise Transformation Design Senior Principal/Director

This position is based in San Francisco. While the role offers flexibility through a hybrid work model, travel is expected based on client and business needs. Leaders should anticipate working from a Slalom office or client site as needed, as this is not a fully remote position.

Transformation Design & Leadership (TDL) helps organizations translate strategy into sustained enterprise outcomes by connecting business ambition with the people, processes, technology, and operating models required to deliver it. As a Principal or Senior Principal within Transformation Design & Leadership, you will serve as a senior transformation advisor to executives navigating complex, enterprise-scale change. You will help clients define transformation ambition, shape integrated approaches, mobilize multidisciplinary teams, and guide execution through measurable business outcomes. You will work across Slalom capabilities, bringing together transformation strategy, operating model, technology, Cloud, Data and AI, workforce, change, and delivery expertise to solve complex client challenges.

Advise Executives and Shape Transformation Strategy

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives and transformation sponsors on complex business and technology transformation.
  • Help clients translate strategic priorities and disruption into clear transformation agendas, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes.
  • Shape enterprise transformation strategies, roadmaps, operating models, governance structures, and portfolios.
  • Facilitate executive conversations that create alignment around transformation ambition, priorities, decisions, risks, and measures of success.
  • Bring a pragmatic point of view on the organizational implications of Cloud, Data, AI, and emerging technology.

Design and Lead Enterprise Transformation

  • Shape and lead complex, multi-workstream transformations spanning people, process, technology, operating model, and organizational change.
  • Translate transformation strategy into executable programs with clear outcomes, governance, decision rights, dependencies, and accountability.
  • Mobilize and guide multidisciplinary Slalom and client teams across strategy through implementation, adoption, and value realization.
  • Provide senior oversight of transformation portfolios, identifying risks, dependencies, and interventions required to maintain momentum.
  • Help clients navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, organizational complexity, and significant business or technology disruption.

Drive Executive Governance and Value Realization

  • Establish executive governance, decision-making structures, delivery cadences, and escalation paths that enable effective transformation leadership.
  • Translate complex transformation signals into clear executive insights, recommendations, and decisions.
  • Connect transformation investments to measurable business outcomes, adoption, operating performance, and organizational value.
  • Anticipate systemic risks and bring together the appropriate leaders and capabilities to resolve them.

Build Client Relationships and Grow Our Business

  • Build trusted relationships with senior client executives and identify opportunities to expand Slalom's impact.
  • Shape complex opportunities and integrated transformation solutions in partnership with account, market, industry, and capability leaders.
  • Lead discovery, solution shaping, executive presentations, proposals, and strategic pursuits.
  • Connect Slalom capabilities into cohesive solutions addressing clients' highest-priority transformation challenges.
  • Contribute to market-facing perspectives and thought leadership around enterprise transformation.

Strengthen TDL and Develop Our People

  • Coach and mentor transformation leaders and consultants, building stronger executive advisory and transformation leadership capabilities.
  • Contribute to the evolution of TDL offerings, methods, playbooks, accelerators, and intellectual property.
  • Capture lessons and emerging client needs to strengthen how Slalom approaches enterprise transformation.
  • Build community across capabilities and markets and encourage collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Help raise the quality and consistency of transformation leadership across client engagements.

What You'll Bring

  • 12+ years of experience in consulting, enterprise transformation, strategy, operating model, or complex business and technology transformation.
  • A sustained track record advising senior executives and leading enterprise-scale transformation from strategy and mobilization through implementation, adoption, and value realization.
  • Experience shaping and leading complex, multi-capability programs across people, process, technology, and organizational change.
  • Strong understanding of modern enterprise transformation, including Cloud, Data, AI, digital platforms, operating models, workforce transformation, and change.
  • Demonstrated strength in executive advisory, transformation design, governance, portfolio leadership, decision facilitation, and value realization.
  • Strong commercial acumen and experience shaping opportunities, developing proposals, supporting pursuits, and growing trusted client relationships.
  • Ability to lead through influence and create alignment across executives, multidisciplinary teams, organizational boundaries, and competing priorities.
  • Exceptional executive communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills.
  • A collaborative leadership style grounded in sound judgment, curiosity, inclusion, coaching, and developing others.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact. What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That's why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance. Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted base salary pay range for Senior Principal is $193,000-260,000 and Director $245,000-300,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time. We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws.

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