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Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) – Transformation & Talent Strategy
📍 Pittsburgh, PA or Plano/Frisco, TX | Reports to CEO
CEI is undergoing a full-scale transformation into an AI Engineering and Enterprise Transformation company.
This is not a traditional CHRO role. This is a build-and-transform mandate.
We are seeking a CHRO who will act as a co-architect of this journey, partnering directly with the CEO to redesign our talent model, leadership structure, and culture for an AI-first future.
What You’ll Lead
🔹 Workforce Transformation
Redesign our workforce for an AI-driven business:
- Segment talent into build, reskill, and reposition pathways
- Lead enterprise-wide reskilling and workforce integration
🔹 CEI AI Academy (Reskilling Engine)
Build a scalable AI capability engine:
- AI engineering (LLMs, agentic systems, copilots)
- Data platform engineering & AI consulting skills
- Partnerships with Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Databricks
- Certification tied directly to deployment and impact
🔹 AI Talent Engine
- Build a high-performance hiring model for AI engineers, architects, and consulting leaders
- Raise the bar: capability and impact over cost and speed
🔹 Leadership Transformation
- Assess and upgrade leadership across AI fluency, transformation capability, and commercial mindset
- Drive succession planning aligned to future-state business needs
🔹 Org Design & Operating Model
- Redesign the organization around AI engineering and industry verticals
- Establish clear role charters, accountability, and decision rights
🔹 Workforce Leveling & Compensation Architecture
- Build out a clear, scalable leveling framework across the organization (VP, Director, Manager, Consultant I, II, III)
- Align compensation structures to capability, impact, and market competitiveness
- Design performance-based incentive and bonus models tied to AI-driven value creation and business outcomes
- Ensure transparency and consistency across roles, career progression, and rewards
🔹 Performance & Incentives
- Redefine KPIs to reflect AI-led value creation
- Align rewards with innovation, impact, and transformation outcomes
🔹 Culture Transformation
Shift from:
- Services execution → AI-led innovation
- Utilization mindset → value creation mindset
🔹 HR as a Transformation Engine
- Build HR into a core driver of business strategy
- Strengthen leadership across talent acquisition, L&D, and HR analytics
- Drive data-led talent decisions
What Success Looks Like (18–24 Months)
- Workforce meaningfully reskilled for AI roles
- Strong pipeline of AI talent and leadership
- Upgraded leadership bench aligned to transformation
- Clear leveling, compensation, and incentive structures in place
- Measurable shift toward AI-led revenue and delivery