AVP People & Culture / Head of Workforce Transformation
Karachi, Lahore, Pakistan
Full Time
Senior Manager/Supervisor
Company Overview
10Pearls is a global, purpose-driven AI-Native digital engineering partner helping businesses re-imagine, digitalize, and accelerate. As an end-to-end digital technology partner, 10Pearls helps businesses create future-proof, transformative digital products that leverage emerging technologies. 10Pearls' clients include Global 2000 enterprises, high growth mid-size businesses, and some of the most exciting start-ups from industries like healthcare, fintech, energy, education, real estate, retail, and hi-tech. Headquartered in the Washington DC metro area, 10Pearls has product engineering and software development centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, and South Asia. To learn more, visit https://10pearls.com.
Role
We are seeking a strategic and business-oriented AVP – People & Culture / Head of Workforce Transformation to lead the transformation of our workforce and people strategy as the organization evolves into an AI-first, AI-native technology services company.
This is beyond a traditional HR leadership role. The successful candidate will serve as a strategic partner to executive and delivery leadership, ensuring the organization’s workforce evolves in capability, mindset, structure, productivity, and performance to remain competitive in an AI-driven services market.
The role will focus on workforce transformation, capability building, talent quality, performance accountability, workforce optimization, organizational effectiveness, and building a high-ownership culture.
Key Responsibilities
Workforce Transformation & Change
Success will be measured by:
10Pearls is a global, purpose-driven AI-Native digital engineering partner helping businesses re-imagine, digitalize, and accelerate. As an end-to-end digital technology partner, 10Pearls helps businesses create future-proof, transformative digital products that leverage emerging technologies. 10Pearls' clients include Global 2000 enterprises, high growth mid-size businesses, and some of the most exciting start-ups from industries like healthcare, fintech, energy, education, real estate, retail, and hi-tech. Headquartered in the Washington DC metro area, 10Pearls has product engineering and software development centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, and South Asia. To learn more, visit https://10pearls.com.
Role
We are seeking a strategic and business-oriented AVP – People & Culture / Head of Workforce Transformation to lead the transformation of our workforce and people strategy as the organization evolves into an AI-first, AI-native technology services company.
This is beyond a traditional HR leadership role. The successful candidate will serve as a strategic partner to executive and delivery leadership, ensuring the organization’s workforce evolves in capability, mindset, structure, productivity, and performance to remain competitive in an AI-driven services market.
The role will focus on workforce transformation, capability building, talent quality, performance accountability, workforce optimization, organizational effectiveness, and building a high-ownership culture.
Key Responsibilities
Workforce Transformation & Change
- Define and execute the future workforce strategy aligned with the AI-native business model.
- Identify changing roles, skills, capability gaps, and workforce requirements.
- Lead organizational change and drive adoption of new ways of working.
- Lead large-scale upskilling, reskilling, and development of AI-ready capabilities.
- Increase talent density and ensure the organization has the right skills for future business needs.
- Drive strategic hiring, redeployment, succession, and talent upgrade initiatives.
- Build a high-performance, high-ownership culture with clear expectations and accountability.
- Strengthen performance management and align measures with business impact and productivity.
- Enable leaders to address performance and talent issues proactively and consistently.
- Partner with leadership on organization design, workforce optimization, and leadership effectiveness.
- Ensure people structures and capabilities remain aligned with business and delivery requirements.
- Make data-driven and, when necessary, difficult talent decisions.
- Build an environment that reinforces ownership, innovation, continuous learning, and accountability.
- Strengthen communication and employee feedback during periods of significant transformation.
Success will be measured by:
- Workforce capability and AI-readiness
- Talent quality and density
- Productivity and organizational effectiveness
- Successful reskilling and redeployment
- Performance accountability
- Employee engagement and transformation adoption
- Measurable business impact
- 15+ years of progressive HR / People & Culture experience, including senior leadership experience.
- Proven experience transforming and scaling technology or professional services organizations.
- Strong expertise in organizational design, talent management, leadership development, and performance management.
- Experience operating in multi-location or global delivery environments.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect people strategy to delivery, productivity, and business outcomes.
- Proven ability to partner with executive leadership and influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience building scalable people systems without unnecessary complexity.
- Strong understanding of AI-driven workforce transformation and emerging skills.
- High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and strong leadership presence.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, growth-oriented, and continuously evolving environment.
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