Workforce Transformation Lead

Who We Are
At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.
The Role
Kyndryl Consult is the fast-growing technology advisory and consulting business within Kyndryl, dedicated to helping global enterprises modernize mission-critical systems and rethink how technology empowers their people. We partner with the world's leading organizations to design, build, and accelerate their digital futures.
As our Workforce Transformation Lead, you will spearhead the growth of our workforce transformation advisory practice. You will partner with business, technology, and HR executives to solve one of the most critical challenges facing enterprises today: understanding how artificial intelligence, automation, and new operating models reshape work, roles, skills, and organizational capacity. Moving well beyond high-level theory, you will guide clients toward pragmatic workforce decisions, actionable roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes.
In this role, you will operate across the complete engagement lifecycle, working seamlessly in both pre-deal and post-deal client environments. You will lead multidisciplinary teams to originate and shape high-value opportunities, architect custom workforce solutions, and oversee client delivery through full implementation.
Your Future at Kyndryl
Areas of Responsibility
Client Advisory and Opportunity Shaping
Identify and shape workforce transformation opportunities across AI, cloud, data, modern workplace, and operating-model programs.
Lead client discovery sessions, proposal development, commercial shaping, and executive-level presentations.
Conduct workforce diagnostics that link business strategy directly to future talent demand, providing clear guidance on build, buy, borrow, bridge, bot, redeployment, and resizing decisions.

Workforce Solution Design and Architecture
Design end-to-end solutions spanning strategic workforce planning, skills intelligence, role redesign, talent marketplaces, and learning academies.
Build role-level skills taxonomies, proficiency models, and skills-gap analyses grounded in enterprise data.
Develop realistic workforce scenarios, reskilling pathways, and transition roadmaps validated with business and functional leaders.

Implementation and Value Realization
Lead hands-on client delivery from initial assessment through operational rollout, establishing clear governance and adoption frameworks.
Drive and measure concrete business outcomes, including proficiency gains, internal mobility rates, reduced skill gaps, and realized capacity.
Analyze workforce data from HCM, LMS, workflow, and operational systems to guide executive decision-making.

Practice Leadership and Ecosystem Growth
Develop repeatable methods, diagnostics, templates, and practitioner training to convert delivery experience into reusable intellectual property.
Build and manage relationships across partner ecosystems, including skills assessment, learning, talent marketplace, and workforce analytics platforms.
Coach and mentor diverse consulting teams across workforce strategy, organization design, change management, and analytics.
Kyndryl currently does not require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, however, if you are hired to work at a client, customer, or partner location, you may be required to show proof of
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Who You Are
You’re good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important – you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused – someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you’re open and borderless – naturally inclusive in how you work with others. You bring a collaborative, consultative edge to complex human-capital challenges, thriving at the intersection of emerging technology, workforce data, and organizational change.
Required Skills and Experience
12+ years of relevant consulting or transformation experience, including demonstrated responsibility for selling and delivering workforce transformation engagements.
Track record translating an AI, automation, technology, or operating-model transformation into task-, role-, skill-, and capacity-level workforce implications.
Demonstrated experience personally leading at least two referenceable workforce transformations from problem definition through implementation, detailing context, decisions, solutions, and measurable results.
Hands-on experience with at least three of the following: strategic workforce planning, work and role redesign, skills taxonomy and proficiency models, skills-gap and adjacency analysis, talent marketplaces, learning academies, workforce segmentation, workforce scenario modeling, redeployment, or workforce-transition planning.
Demonstrated sales capability, including opportunity origination or qualification, solution development, proposal leadership, commercial shaping, executive presentations, and account expansion.
Experience leading distributed consulting teams and working directly with senior business, HR, technology, finance, and operations stakeholders.
Experience using workforce data from HCM, LMS, talent, project, workflow, or operational systems to support workforce decisions.
Ability to provide work samples or detailed examples of deliverables such as future-role maps, skills heatmaps, workforce scenarios, learning pathways, orchestration models, transition roadmaps, or realized-capacity cases.

Preferred Skills and Experience

Direct implementation experience with two or more workforce or skills platforms such as Cornerstone, Gloat, Pluralsight, Degreed, Workday Skills Cloud, Eightfold, SkyHive, Microsoft Viva, or equivalent platforms.

Experience integrating skills, learning, talent marketplace, HCM, LMS, and workforce-planning capabilities into a unified architecture.
Familiarity with AI-enabled skills inference, role and work decomposition, personalized learning, talent matching, workforce digital twins, and Human + AI workforce orchestration.

Equal Employment Opportunity All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Compensation and Benefits The compensation range for this position in the U.S. is $179,760 to $341,520 based on a full-time schedule. Your actual compensation may vary depending on your geography, job-related skills, and experience. For part-time roles, the compensation will be adjusted appropriately. The pay or salary range will not be below any applicable state, city, or local minimum wage requirement. There is a different applicable compensation range for the following work locations: California (San Francisco Bay Area): $215,640 to $409,800 California (All Other): $197,640 to $375,600 Colorado: $179,760 to $341,520 Massachusetts: $179,760 to $375,600 New York City: $215,640 to $409,800 Washington: $197,640 to $375,600 Washington DC: $197,640 to $375,600 This position will be eligible for Kyndryl’s discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl’s applicable plans. You may also receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off. Note: If this is a sales commission eligible role, you will be eligible to participate in a sales commission plan in lieu of the annual discretionary bonus program.