AI Transformation Lead, Sr. Manager

NielsenIQ•Chicago, IL

7d•Remote

About The Position

NIQ is seeking a strategic, business-oriented AI Transformation Lead to identify and translate high-value business opportunities into scalable AI-enabled workflows, solutions, and operating-model changes. This individual-contributor role leads initiatives from discovery and business-case development through solution design, implementation, and value realization. It is remote and based in the United States; candidates must be physically located within the US. The role connects business needs with AI and technology capabilities, ensuring solutions reflect how work is performed and can be operationalized successfully. The AI Transformation Lead partners with business leaders, EIT, Product Leadership, CS Standards & Activation, and other enterprise partners. The successful candidate brings business understanding, structured problem-solving, learning agility, hands-on AI fluency, and cross-functional leadership to turn emerging opportunities into practical initiatives and measurable improvements in effectiveness, scalability, customer experience, and business outcomes.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in business transformation, consulting, product strategy, digital transformation, or a relevant business function.
Deep familiarity with client needs, frontline workflows, or functional use cases, and the ability to translate firsthand experience into meaningful transformation opportunities.
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and delivering measurable business outcomes within a complex, matrixed organization.
Experience partnering across business, Product, and Technology teams to move initiatives from concept into implementation.
Strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and structured problem-solving, with the judgment to ground solutions in business and client realities.
Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management, executive communication, and cross-functional leadership skills.
Hands-on fluency with modern AI tools and the ability to translate between business needs, practical workflows, and technical possibilities.
Adaptability and comfort with ambiguity, including willingness to experiment, learn from feedback, change course, and find practical solutions.

Nice To Haves

Experience gained within NIQ or a comparable data and insights organization.
Experience applying AI and automation within enterprise business processes.
Experience in Growth Marketing, Communications, Demand Generation, Customer Engagement, Business Intelligence, enterprise reporting, performance management, or a related domain.
Knowledge of NIQ data, products, client delivery, and internal workflows, or comparable experience within the data and insights industry.
Experience redesigning workflows or operating models and using prototypes or proofs of concept to validate new approaches.

Responsibilities

Partner with business leaders to identify high-value opportunities for AI-enabled transformation across functions and workflows.
Lead discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, and process assessments to understand business needs, pain points, and growth opportunities.
Assess process maturity, operational readiness, data availability, technology dependencies, and organizational constraints.
Build and manage a prioritized portfolio of opportunities based on strategic alignment, expected value, feasibility, complexity, and readiness.
Translate business challenges into clearly defined AI-enabled workflows, solutions, and future-state operating models.
Define business requirements, user needs, success measures, process implications, ownership, and implementation approaches.
Develop rapid prototypes or proofs of concept to test assumptions, demonstrate potential value, and inform investment decisions.
Partner with Product Leadership, Engineering, and Enterprise IT teams to shape solution roadmaps and delivery plans.
Lead transformation workstreams from opportunity identification through implementation and value realization.
Develop business cases, implementation roadmaps, milestone plans, executive recommendations, and decision materials.
Align cross-functional stakeholders on roles, decisions, dependencies, and handoffs, while actively managing risks and competing priorities.
Communicate progress, recommendations, decisions, and outcomes to senior leadership audiences.
Translate solution designs into changes to workflows, roles, decision points, data needs, and team handoffs.
Work with business and technical owners to define launch requirements, ongoing ownership, support needs, and the path from pilot to scaled implementation.
Stay engaged through implementation to resolve design issues, incorporate feedback, and help ensure solutions work in practice.

Benefits

Flexible working environment
Comprehensive healthcare plan, including medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible spending accounts and a Health Savings Account, including company contributions
Life and AD&D insurance
401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
Disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement and education support
Discretionary paid time off
11 paid holidays
Volunteer time off
LinkedIn Learning
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Industry-leading parental leave
Potential eligibility for a sales-based incentive or performance-based bonus