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The Principal, CXS Strategic Programs is a senior individual contributor in the CCO office who helps turn high-priority Customer Experience Services initiatives into coordinated, measurable change. This role leads complex, cross-functional programs across AI-enabled transformation, operating-model evolution, change readiness, integration planning, KPI development, and executive-sponsored strategic priorities. The ideal candidate brings structure to ambiguity, builds trusted partnerships, communicates clearly with senior leaders and functional teams, and drives practical execution through influence, sound judgment, and hands-on follow-through.
Lead and coordinate cross-functional strategic programs tied to CXS transformation, AI-enabled workflow improvement, operating-model evolution, integration planning, and CCO-sponsored priorities.
Translate executive priorities into clear program charters, workstreams, milestones, owners, decision paths, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
Partner with CXS leaders, Operations, Finance, HR, Internal Communications, IT, Data, AI, Legal, and other stakeholders to align plans, surface risks, and resolve cross-functional dependencies.
Identify and redesign work that can be simplified, automated, or augmented through AI or improved operating practices; help move opportunities from assessment through pilot, adoption, and scale.
Develop practical KPIs, baselines, reporting rhythms, dashboards, and follow-up mechanisms that help leaders monitor transformation progress and value realization.
Prepare concise decision materials, executive updates, operating briefs, and recommendations that synthesize operational, financial, workforce, customer, and change-management considerations.
Build and maintain portfolio-level visibility into CCO-sponsored initiatives, including progress, risks, tradeoffs, open decisions, and organizational impacts.
Create reusable tools, playbooks, lessons learned, case examples, and shared operating mechanisms that improve how CXS executes future transformation work.
Connect and convene senior CX Operations Principals through shared context, operating rhythms, common tools, and coordinated workback mechanisms, without creating a formal people-management layer.
Apply prior experience delivering AI/ML projects to define use cases, coordinate data and technology dependencies, manage pilots, and guide solutions through adoption and scale.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Strong strategic operations, transformation, program leadership, and stakeholder management capability in matrixed environments.
Ability to structure ambiguous priorities, clarify ownership, frame decisions, and drive work forward through influence rather than authority.
Practiced knowledge of AI-enabled process redesign, automation, productivity improvement, technology adoption, or operational transformation.
Strong analytical judgment, including comfort with KPI design, performance monitoring, value tracking, assumptions, and executive-ready synthesis.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for executives, functional partners, and frontline teams.
High discretion and sound judgment when working with workforce planning, organizational changes, financial information, or sensitive transition work.
Bias toward action and willingness to build first-version tools, materials, processes, or repositories when needed to create momentum.
Ability to build shared context, operating cadence, and followership among senior peers and cross-functional partners.
Practical knowledge of AI/ML project lifecycles, including use-case definition, data readiness, model or solution evaluation, responsible-AI considerations, implementation, adoption, and value measurement.
Experience/Credentials:
Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional programs in a SaaS, technology, professional services, public-sector technology, management consulting, strategic operations, or similarly matrixed environment.
Experience in business transformation, operating-model change, acquisition or integration planning, executive operations, or strategic initiatives preferred.
Demonstrated ability to develop and implement KPIs, reporting mechanisms, program governance, or operating cadences that connect activity to measurable outcomes.
Experience partnering with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to manage sensitive, high-priority, or ambiguous initiatives.
Relevant consulting, operations, transformation, or strategy experience preferred.
Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading AI/ML projects from discovery and business-case development through pilot, implementation, adoption, and measurable outcome tracking.
Other Job Info
Principal-level individual contributor role with no direct reports.
Reports to the Chief of Staff to the CCO.
Partners across CXS leadership, CXS Operations, HR, Internal Communications, FP&A, IT, Data, AI, Legal, and other teams as needed.
Does not replace established functional ownership or create a formal people-management layer.
Travel, location, status, compensation title, job code, FLSA, risk designation, and other administrative fields to be completed through the standard job-description template process.
Don’t have all the skills/experience mentioned above? At Granicus, we are trying to build diverse, inclusive teams. We do not have degree requirements for most of our roles. If you don’t meet every requirement above but are excited to learn more, we encourage you to apply. We might just be able to find another role that could be a perfect fit!
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