Who we are looking for 

We are seeking a Managing Director to establish and drive an enterprise change capability focused on translating our new product focused operating model into sustained changes across the IT organization, workforce, governance, and ways of working. The role will drive an integrated transformation agenda, align workforce capacity and capabilities to strategic priorities, and ensure operating model changes are implemented with clear ownership, disciplined execution, and measurable outcomes. 

The ideal candidate is a senior enterprise transformation leader with deep experience in change management, operating model design, workforce strategy, and large-scale execution within a complex, regulated organization. This individual must be able to translate strategic direction into clear transformation roadmaps, organizational and workforce actions, and practical implementation plans that improve how GTS operates and delivers. 

This is a GTS-facing leadership role expected to partner with GTS senior leaders, business and technology executives, workforce and HR partners, risk teams, and platform leaders. This person will drive the change approach, governance model, and execution standards for the transformation while also leading hands-on efforts to realign work, roles, skills, capacity, and ways of working to the new operating model. 

What you will be responsible for 

Enterprise Change Strategy & Execution 

Define and lead the enterprise change approach for Global Technology Services, including the roadmap, change methodology, governance, prioritization, sequencing, and adoption model required to implement the new operating model across functions and geographies. 

Build and maintain an integrated view of the transformation portfolio, connecting strategic priorities, operating model changes, organizational impacts, workforce actions, dependencies, risks, decisions, and measurable outcomes to improve transparency and accountability. 

Operating Model & Workforce Realignment 

Lead structured analysis to identify where work, roles, skills, capacity, organizational boundaries, and decision rights are not aligned to the new operating model or GTS strategic priorities. 

Partner with GTS leaders, HR, finance, and transformation teams to design the future-state organization, clarify accountabilities and decision rights, and develop practical workforce transition plans that align people and capabilities to the work that matters most. 

Establish measurable outcomes for operating model and workforce changes, including improved capacity alignment, clearer accountability, stronger capabilities, simplified organizational interfaces, reduced duplication, and better delivery against business priorities. 

Transformation Governance, Adoption & Executive Reporting 

Create and maintain governance routines that ensure transformation initiatives remain aligned to the target operating model, have clear executive ownership, address workforce and change impacts, and progress through disciplined decisions, dependencies, and implementation milestones. 

Develop executive-ready reporting that communicates transformation progress, operating model adoption, workforce impacts, key risks, critical decisions, change readiness, and outcomes against enterprise priorities. 

Stakeholder Leadership & Change Adoption 

Lead engagement with senior stakeholders across GTS, the business, HR, finance, risk, and global delivery teams to drive alignment on the target operating model, transformation priorities, workforce implications, implementation sequencing, and adoption of new ways of working. 

Build credibility with global teams by facilitating fact-based discussions, resolving ownership ambiguity, challenging legacy structures and behaviors, and helping leaders move from transformation design to sustained execution and adoption. 

What we value 

Enterprise Transformation Leadership: Proven ability to define and lead complex, enterprise-scale change across operating models, organizations, workforce, governance, and ways of working within a large, matrixed technology organization. 

Operating Model and Workforce Mindset: Demonstrated experience translating strategy into future-state structures, clear accountabilities, workforce plans, capability shifts, implementation actions, and measurable outcomes. 

Executive Stakeholder Influence: Ability to engage senior leaders, challenge constructively, build consensus, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries. 

Risk and Control Orientation: Strong understanding of how organizational design, governance, ownership, controls, metrics, and evidence support operational resilience and a sound control environment during significant change. 

Structured Communication: Exceptional written, verbal, and facilitation skills, with the ability to convert complex transformation topics into clear narratives, decision materials, implementation roadmaps, workforce actions, and executive-ready recommendations. 

Analytical Depth: Strong ability to evaluate workforce data, organizational capacity, skills, delivery demand, role clarity, decision rights, change impacts, and operating model constraints to identify root causes and practical transformation actions. 

Change Leadership: Ability to move GTS from strategy and design to adoption by mobilizing leaders, aligning incentives and accountabilities, addressing resistance, building change capability, and sustaining new ways of working across global teams. 

Education & Preferred Qualifications 

15+ years of experience leading enterprise transformation, large-scale change management, operating model implementation, workforce transformation, organizational effectiveness, technology transformation, or risk-aligned remediation initiatives within large organizations. 

Experience operating at a senior leadership level, preferably within financial services, technology, operations, risk management, or another highly regulated environment. 

Demonstrated expertise in enterprise change and transformation disciplines such as operating model design, organizational design, workforce planning, change impact assessment, stakeholder mobilization, adoption planning, capability building, or related methods. 

Experience building transformation governance, integrated roadmaps, workforce transition plans, change standards, reusable tools, readiness assessments, adoption measures, and executive reporting for complex enterprise programs. 

Strong track record working with globally distributed teams and influencing senior stakeholders across GTS, the business, HR, finance, risk, operations, and business-aligned technology functions. 

Salary Range:

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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