smartlyio

New York

Senior Director, Organizational Transformation & Workforce Design at smartlyio

ON-SITE SENIOR
Posted 2 days ago
$198,000 - $250,000
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Company snapshot

smartlyio

Smartly.io is a leading Facebook marketing platform offering marketers an easy-to-use SaaS tool for creating, managing, and optimizing social advertising campaigns. They serve 700+ brands worldwide, managing $4B in ad spend, and provide outstanding cus...

Media Marketing & Advertising Technology SAAS
HQ
Helsinki, Finland
Team size
251-1K
Funding raised
$2.8M

Quick Summary

Role Overview

This Senior Director role at Smartly focuses on shaping organizational evolution and workforce design as the company scales globally and integrates AI. Reporting to the Chief People Officer, the position translates business strategy into effective organizational structures, leadership capabilities, and transformation programs.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead enterprise transformation initiatives across organizational design and workforce evolution
  • Design roles and workflows for an AI-enabled organization to increase leverage
  • Build scalable workforce frameworks including job architecture and career paths
  • Strengthen leadership and manager capabilities through scalable development programs
  • Translate business priorities into implementation roadmaps and governance models
  • Advise senior leaders on complex organizational challenges and structured decision-making

Requirements Snapshot

  • Extensive experience leading organizational transformation or design in-house or in consulting
  • Deep understanding of operating models and translating strategy into practical solutions
  • Proven track record of leading complex cross-functional initiatives from design to implementation
  • Ability to influence executive stakeholders and build alignment around complex decisions
  • Strong structured problem-solving skills and curiosity about AI-driven organizational changes

Expected Impact

The successful candidate will drive the evolution of Smartly's global workforce, ensuring the organization is structured to scale effectively while maximizing the potential of AI. By building robust leadership frameworks and operating models, this role will directly contribute to sustainable business growth and increased organizational effectiveness.

A DesignJobs.World summary of the employer's posting, written to highlight scope, requirements, and fit (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Compensation

$198,000 - $250,000

Job Description

Senior Director, Organizational Transformation & Workforce Design

Smartly is looking for a Senior Director, Organizational Transformation & Workforce Design to help shape how our organization evolves as we scale globally and embed AI more deeply into how we work. Reporting to the Chief People Officer and working within the CHRO Office, you will partner with leaders across Smartly to translate business strategy into organizational structures, workforce models, leadership capabilities, and transformation programs that help our teams operate effectively at scale.

What You Will Do

  • Lead enterprise transformation initiatives across organizational design, leadership effectiveness, workforce evolution, new site and hub integration, and cross-functional operating models.
  • Design how work evolves in an AI-enabled organization, partnering with leaders to rethink roles, workflows, team structures, and operating models as AI creates new opportunities to increase effectiveness and leverage.
  • Build scalable workforce frameworks, including job architecture, career frameworks, and approaches that help Smartly make thoughtful decisions about how teams and capabilities should evolve.
  • Strengthen leadership and manager capability by partnering with HR Business Partners and senior leaders to design leadership frameworks, manager development programs, and other scalable capability-building initiatives.
  • Translate business priorities into transformation roadmaps, defining clear implementation plans, governance, measures of success, and approaches for driving sustainable adoption.
  • Advise senior leaders on complex organizational challenges, bringing structured thinking and organizational expertise to decisions about structure, capabilities, ways of working, and change.
  • Align stakeholders across functions and geographies, ensuring organizational changes are practical, clearly understood, and connected to measurable business outcomes.

What We Are Looking For

  • Strong experience leading organizational transformation, organizational design, workforce design, strategy, or related work, either within organizations or in management consulting.
  • Deep understanding of organizational design and operating models, with experience translating business strategy into practical organizational solutions.
  • Experience leading complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives and moving from strategy and design through implementation.
  • Experience designing leadership, manager, or organizational capability programs that can scale across an organization.
  • Ability to advise and influence executive stakeholders, navigate different perspectives, and build alignment around complex decisions.
  • Strong structured problem-solving skills and the ability to turn ambiguous organizational challenges into clear frameworks and actions.
  • Experience with change management and stakeholder engagement across teams, functions, and geographies.
  • Curiosity about AI-enabled organizations and a practical perspective on how AI can reshape roles, workflows, team structures, and the future of work.

What We Offer You

Five weeks paid time off (PTO), 11 company paid holidays, unlimited sick days

Generous healthcare packages & mental health benefits

401K plus matching & equity grants for all new Smartlies

Wellness benefit & learning reimbursement opportunities

Volunteer time off days & company donation matching opportunities

And so much more…

The base pay range for this position is as mentioned below per year, plus an annual performance bonus. We take into consideration an individual’s background, expertise, and experience in determining final salary. In addition to annual salary, Smartly’s total rewards provide employees with stock options, medical/dental/vision insurances, retirement savings benefits, parental leave, 5 weeks vacation, unlimited sick days, life insurance, and disability benefits. This information is provided in accordance with applicable law. Base pay information is based on market location.

Salary in USD: $198,000 - 250,000

Curious what it’s like to work at Smartly? Visit our Careers page to see how we grow, collaborate, and make impact together

 

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About Smartly

Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers.

Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.

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