Principal, AI Strategy & Transformation

Overview

We're looking for a AI Strategy & Transformation Consultant to join us in in our Alpharetta, GA office. This is a full-time, onsite position. You'll join an awesome team to support our growing operations.

About the role

This is a player-coach role within the Strategy function. You'll help shape how AI is adopted and scaled across Aptean while remaining hands-on in the work itself. You'll prototype solutions, build automations, and put first-version working tools in front of users, while also setting the broader direction for our AI roadmap. We expect roughly half of your time to be focused on hands-on delivery and half on strategy, prioritization, and portfolio management.

You'll partner closely with business leaders, operational teams, and AI engineers to identify opportunities where work is manual, time-consuming, or insight-constrained. You'll prove value quickly, scale what works, and ensure initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes. Success in this role is defined by deployed solutions and tangible results, not presentations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities firsthand: Partner with Strategic Operations teams to understand how they support business leaders, map key workflows, and uncover opportunities for automation, AI-driven insights, and efficiency gains.
• Prototype and ship: Build working proofs of concept using LLM APIs, Claude Code/Cowork, agent frameworks, or low-code tools. Take the most promising solutions into production either independently or in partnership with the engineering team, depending on complexity and scale.
• Own a living portfolio: Manage the AI roadmap as a portfolio of delivered and in-flight initiatives, prioritizing work based on measurable business value rather than enthusiasm alone.
• Measure impact rigorously: Establish baselines before launch, track adoption and outcomes over time, and transparently report results, including lessons learned from initiatives that do not succeed.
• Make governance practical: Create lightweight guardrails for data access, model usage, human review, and risk management that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining appropriate oversight and compliance.
• Translate between technical and business audiences: Turn business challenges into clear requirements that engineers can execute against, while helping leaders understand technical trade-offs in straightforward business terms.
• Build organizational capability: Facilitate working sessions, create reusable templates and prompt libraries, and develop AI champions across functions so that success can scale beyond a single individual.

In your first 90 days you will…

• Map at least 3 manual processes where AI involvement could bring efficiencies
• Ship at least one working AI or automation solution into daily use
• Publish a prioritised AI roadmap with baselines and success measures for each item

About you

You are entrepreneurial, hands-on and comfortable working across strategy, operations, engineering and business teams. You can investigate problems, understand numbers, challenge assumptions and step back to assess broader direction.

Key Requirements:

• Substantial experience in strategy, transformation, AI enablement, or automation, with a track record of helping to build and launch solutions
• Strong understanding of AI, automation, digital transformation, or technology-enabled change.
• Ability to bridge business and technical teams and influence stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience establishing governance, operating frameworks, and accountability mechanisms.
• Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-moving environment.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a hands-on approach to driving change.

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow's unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean' s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean' s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

"At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company." - TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.

Disclaimer: This position is intended for direct applicants only. No agencies or third-party recruiters, please. Unsolicited agency submissions will not be considered.