AI Transformation Senior Manager

AI Transformation Senior Manager OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will partner with the world’s most highly regarded companies, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation. Role Overview AI is rapidly redefining how organizations operate, innovate and create value. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in how OpenText identifies, designs, and delivers next-generation AI solutions and brings intelligent systems into the core of how the organisation operates, reshaping the future of work. This role blends a strategic mindset, technical depth, and strong product instincts. You will collaborate with business units to define the right problems, explore emerging AI patterns, prototype innovative ideas, validate feasibility, and shape solutions that deliver measurable impact. You will contribute to the enterprise AI strategy, design processes that accelerate innovation, and help teams adopt next-generation AI capabilities with confidence. What The Role Offers Turn business challenges into AI opportunities – Partner with business units to deeply understand workflows, pain points, and value drivers. Frame ambiguous problems into structured AI use cases with clear requirements and measurable outcomes. Translate business needs into actionable technical approaches and prototypes. Shape AI strategy and capability roadmaps – Develop strategy, domain-level roadmaps, and prioritization frameworks across the organisation. Identify opportunities to use automation, intelligent workflows, and AI-assisted engineering to transform operations and customer experience. Build processes, playbooks, and reusable frameworks – Define repeatable methods for experimentation, feasibility evaluation, pilot design, and solution rollout. Strengthen the enterprise AI lifecycle, from discovery and design through validation and measurement. Create patterns that accelerate safe, consistent, high-quality AI delivery. Drive hands‑on applied AI innovation – Rapidly prototype solutions, agentic AI, multimodal models, and predictive ML. Validate feasibility, accuracy, performance, and scalability. Experiment with emerging techniques to keep OpenText at the forefront of applied AI. Lead cross‑functional collaboration and influence – Work with engineering, data, product management, UX, operations, and LOB leaders to shape solution direction, guide design decisions, and ensure value realization. Communicate complex concepts in simple, actionable terms. Influence without authority and drive alignment across teams. Advance an AI‑first culture – Support citizen innovators, champion best practices, and contribute to internal training, workshops, and thought leadership. Introduce intelligent development tools and automation patterns that elevate engineering craft and streamline workflows. What You Need To Succeed Strategic thinking with a product mindset – 9+ years of experience leading the translation of complex business challenges into clear AI opportunities, value narratives, and structured problem statements. Shaped or influenced strategies, roadmaps, prioritization frameworks, and measurable goals that align near‑term experimentation with long‑term enterprise ambition. Passion for applied AI innovation – Driven to experiment with emerging models, agentic behaviors, and new technical patterns. Creative and critical thinker about how applied AI can transform workflows and enhance employee and customer experiences. Built real AI systems end‑to‑end – Hands‑on experience leading and developing AI solutions across predictive modelling, ML, NLP, and generative or agentic AI. Strong understanding of progression toward autonomous system patterns. Innovation‑driven builder – Led complex, multi‑stream initiatives and large‑scale implementations in fast‑moving environments. Comfortable exploring the frontier while grounding each solution in practical feasibility, responsible design, and meaningful business impact. Design systems, not one‑offs – Created playbooks, frameworks, and reusable methodologies that help teams innovate with consistency, rigor, and speed. Designed processes that accelerate delivery and enhance cross‑functional collaboration, not add friction. Clear communication and influence – Articulated technical concepts to executives, engineers, and business teams in a clear and compelling way. Guided decisions and drove alignment across stakeholders. Collaboration mindset – Valued partnership across engineering, data, UX, product, operations, and business units. Worked well with diverse teams and united people to deliver strong outcomes. Master's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, data science, mathematics, business, or a related field that provides a strong foundation for applied AI, strategic decision‑making, and scaling emerging AI capabilities. Benefits OpenText offers a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive work environment that fosters personal growth and professional development. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy ensures a workplace that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, colour, gender identity, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or any other basis protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at Position Details Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior levelEmployment Type: Full‑timeJob Function: Business Development and Sales (Software Development) #J-18808-Ljbffr