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Organization Design – Future of Work Senior Director

Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Full-time
Remote friendly (Boston, MA)
United States
$228,800 - $343,200 USD yearly
Human Resources

Role Summary

Senior Director of Organization Design – Future of Work to develop the strategy, approaches and tools that enable Leaders and HR in designing tech-enabled organizations. Define frameworks and guidance to evolve workforce plans, roles and team structures, and work with stakeholders across HR, senior leaders, training, finance, and data & technology to design, develop and implement products that meet organizational needs.

Responsibilities

  • Define the enterprise-wide organization design strategy that enables the adoption and integration of AI across functions and business units
  • Align strategy with enterprise goals, talent priorities, and future-of-work initiatives
  • Develop practical frameworks, tools, and methods for organization design, role design, and capability planning—purpose-built for use by HR Business Partners and leaders
  • Create scalable resources (e.g., design playbooks, decision guides, capacity models, change impact tools) to support consistent and effective adoption across the enterprise
  • Partner with Workforce Planning, Data & Technology, and Finance teams to understand capacity shifts from AI use cases and translate them into proactive workforce strategies
  • Identify how work shifts across roles—and build guidance to support role transitions, upskilling, or redeployment in a supportive and empowering way
  • Serve as a thought partner and advisor to HR Business Partners and functional leaders, equipping them with the tools to lead AI-related org design shifts
  • Engage with functional leaders on the approach and build ownership of AI-enabled ways of working
  • Develop change management guidance and leader enablement strategies that help HR and people managers support teams through organizational evolution
  • Identify risks and opportunities for organizational health and employee experience as AI adoption accelerates
  • Establish success measures to track the effectiveness of org design and workforce efforts
  • Use feedback loops and pilot learnings to iterate and refine tools and frameworks over time

Qualifications

  • Deep expertise in organization design, operating model development
  • Experience with workforce planning and/or modeling, including capability and capacity planning
  • Familiarity with advancing technology AI and agentic AI and their implications on workforce productivity, structure, skills, and work design
  • Proven experience developing strategy and scalable frameworks for Leaders and HR
  • Strong background in culture and driving change management, supporting leaders through large-scale transformation
  • Executive written and presentation communication skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts
  • Experience supporting HR business partners and Leaders in applying org design in practice
  • Ability to build relationships cross-functionally and lead groups toward common goals
  • Creative problem-solving skills and critical thinking abilities with ability to execute through strong operational excellence and attention to detail

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in organizational development, Human Resources, I/O Psychology, Business, or a related field OR equivalent relevant experience
  • Typically requires 12 years of experience in organization design and/or strategy HR roles or the equivalent combination of education and experience
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