The Finance Transformation Change Lead is a senior individual contributor responsible for driving employee readiness and adoption across major Finance transformations, beginning with Shield AI’s Oracle ERP implementation. The role leads internal communications, stakeholder engagement, change champion activities, and training coordination so employees and leaders are prepared to adopt new Finance systems, processes, and operating models.
For the next 12 months, the role will focus primarily on the Oracle ERP implementation. Over time, it will support other Finance-related transformation initiatives, including acquisition integration, Finance systems modernization, process harmonization, and operating-model changes.
What you'll do:
- Partner with the Executive Change Sponsor and implementation vendor’s Change Management Lead to execute Shield AI’s internal change, communications, readiness, and adoption activities.
- Translate the broader change plan into clear, timely communications across Shield AI channels, including leadership updates, FAQs, employee communications, and program materials.
- Develop and lead a cross-functional Change Champion Network, equipping champions to reinforce key messages, support adoption, and surface feedback from their teams.
- Build leadership alignment by preparing talking points, facilitating briefings and employee forums, and ensuring leaders understand their role in supporting change.
- Identify and help address areas of resistance, confusion, and people-related risk in partnership with program stakeholders.
- Coordinate training readiness activities, including train-the-trainer sessions, subject-matter-expert participation, end-user training schedules, and delivery through internal learning channels.
- Maintain the Oracle ERP information hub and ensure program communications, training resources, timelines, and key documents are current and accessible.
- Coordinate onsite engagement, leadership sessions, champion activities, and readiness events at key program milestones.
- Track feedback and readiness signals, using insights to improve communications, engagement, and adoption support.
- Support additional Finance-related transformation initiatives after the Oracle ERP implementation, including acquisition integration and Finance systems or process changes.
- Help establish repeatable change-management practices, tools, and templates within the Finance Transformation Office and PMO.
Required qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in organizational change management, communications, program management, HR, or a related field.
- Experience supporting complex technology, ERP, Finance transformation, or enterprise process-change initiatives.
- Strong written communication, facilitation, stakeholder-management, and executive-facing presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and levels while operating as a senior individual contributor.
- Experience developing communications, leading employee engagement, and coordinating role-based training or train-the-trainer activities.
- Ability to simplify complex system and process changes into practical, audience-specific information.
- Strong organization, judgment, and follow-through in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- Willingness to travel periodically for implementation milestones, leadership engagement, training, and onsite readiness activities.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with Oracle ERP or another large-scale enterprise system implementation.
- Experience supporting M&A integration, including systems consolidation, process harmonization, or Day 1/Day 100 readiness.
- Prosci, ACMP, PMP, or comparable change-management or project-management certification.
- Experience in a high-growth technology or defense-tech env
Skills Required
- 7+ years experience in organizational change management, communications, program management, HR, or related field.
- Experience supporting complex technology, ERP, finance transformation, or enterprise process-change initiatives.
- Strong written communication, facilitation, stakeholder-management, and executive-facing presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across functions and levels while operating as a senior individual contributor.
- Experience developing communications, leading employee engagement, and coordinating role-based training or train-the-trainer activities.
- Ability to simplify complex system and process changes into practical, audience-specific information.
- Strong organization, judgment, and follow-through in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- Willingness to travel periodically for implementation milestones, leadership engagement, training, and onsite readiness activities.
- Experience with Oracle ERP or another large-scale enterprise system implementation.
- Experience supporting M&A integration, including systems consolidation, process harmonization, or Day 1/Day 100 readiness.
- Prosci, ACMP, PMP, or comparable change-management or project-management certification.
- Experience in a high-growth technology or defense-tech environment.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits include paid parental leave, fertility support, childcare benefits, family medical leave, and onsite resources such as a Mother's Room. Feedback suggests the family-oriented offerings are more expansive than basic coverage.
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What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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