Senior Manager of AI and People Transformation, MongoDB
$115-198k
Modern data platform
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Modern data platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$115-198k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will be passionate about transforming HR operations and defining scalable, next-generation workforce capabilities, this is an opportunity to shape the future of work in a high-growth environment
- 10+ years of professional experience, with 8+ years of progressive leadership specifically across transformation, operations, strategy or consulting, ideally within People/HR or a high-growth technology environment
- Experience in consulting, program management, product management, or a similar cross-functional role, bridging business and technical teams to shape roadmaps, navigate trade-offs, and drive solutions from discovery through adoption
- Strong understanding of AI and automation and the ability to translate emerging capabilities into practical business solutions
- A builder mindset, with experience prototyping, experimenting, and rapidly testing new approaches to drive organizational change
- Strong systems thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve complex, ambiguous cross-functional problems and scale performance across the Business Unit
- Proven ability to influence senior executives, align cross-functional teams around a shared vision, and hold stakeholders accountable for outcomes without direct authority
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and bringing teams together around a common future state.Strong judgment and comfort moving between strategic thinking and hands-on execution
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Manager, AI & People Transformation to sit at the intersection of HR strategy, workflow architecture, and emerging AI technologies
- In this high-impact, cross-functional role, you will challenge legacy HR practices, rapidly prototype low-code and AI-driven solutions, and evaluate build-vs-buy decisions in close partnership with IT
- As a bridge between People leadership and technical execution, you will establish repeatable automation frameworks, solve complex operational bottlenecks, and unlock strategic capacity across the enterprise
- Translating senior strategy into clear goals and operating rhythms, leading high-impact People transformation and AI initiatives to simplify work, improve experiences, and create scalable capacity
- Designing and leading end-to-end workflow transformations that challenge existing processes and integrate AI, automation, self-service, and enterprise systems to fundamentally scale how work gets done
- Translating complex business challenges into clear future-state workflows, technical requirements, experiments, and cross-departmental implementation plans
- Rapidly prototyping and testing solutions using AI and low/no-code platforms to establish best practices, validate concepts, and set technical standards
- Partnering with senior People Team leaders and functional experts to align resources, set priorities, and move high-value opportunities from concept through division-wide implementation
- Partnering closely with IT leadership to translate business needs into technical requirements, inform cross-functional systems design, and advise leaders on critical build-vs-buy trade-offs
- Designing reusable, cross-departmental capabilities across People workflows to improve quality, performance, and scale rather than building disconnected point solutions
- Establishing key metrics to track the operational impact of transformation, including process performance, capacity created, cross-functional adoption, and elevated employee/manager experience
- Developing practical frameworks, standards, and toolkits that empower cross-functional teams to identify, test, and apply AI and transformation capabilities
- What success looks like
- You will help the People Team move beyond using AI primarily for individual productivity toward redesigning core operating models and driving high-impact organizational leverage
- Success means delivering scalable, cross-functional solutions that eliminate manual handoffs, expand self-service, set clear operational standards, and unlock strategic capacity for the Business Unit
- Over time, your work will establish a standardized, repeatable framework for evaluating, executing, and scaling new ways of working across the enterprise
Our take
MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.
Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organizations modernize their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.
Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Oct 2013
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $311.1m
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dwight Merriman
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.
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