Transformation Manager

Imagineers is a strategic design and intelligent technology studio in Australia and New Zealand. We design how your business can grow intelligently, then build it with you. We offer connected strategy, design, product, software development and transformation services in one studio.

You will act as transformation manager on our client work, hands-on, with our founder as the transformation lead. Your job is to manage our change programmes from our side: the programme, the plan, the people and the benefits, collaborating with the client's teams throughout. The change is always wider than one person, so you run our part, bring the client's people with you and keep the whole programme on track, using your mastery of delivery in collaboration with your peers and the company founders to create outstanding work for our clients.

• Turn the transformation design into a programme: the plan, the workstreams, the roadmap, the resourcing on our side and the client's, and the measures for each stage.
• Run the programme day to day: governance, the delivery rhythm, risks, dependencies and decisions, with the client's sponsor and initiative owners.
• Manage the change inside the client's organisation with their teams: the roles that change, who does what with AI, the training and the adoption, so the new way of working holds after we leave.
• Manage our delivery and the partners', hold everyone to the design, and get decisions made without formal authority.
• Track benefits against the case and report plainly to the transformation lead, the executive and the board.
• For Intelligent Studio clients, run the move of campaign production onto the new pipeline with the client's marketing team: onboarding, the new workflow between client and studio, approvals, and the first campaigns through it.
• Work with our strategists, designers and technologists so the strategy, the design and the build stay one programme.
• Coach the client's own people to carry the work on after we step back.

• You have managed and delivered transformation programmes end to end, in large organisations, typically eight or more years in programme, transformation or change delivery, with results you can talk through in detail: what changed, what it cost and what it returned.
• You were the person accountable for delivery, with the plan and the numbers in your hands.
• Programme management in practice: planning, workstreams, dependencies, resourcing and the discipline to keep a programme honest.
• Change management in practice, with and without a formal method, from executive sponsorship to frontline adoption.
• Programme governance: funding gates, steering, risk, and benefits tracking that an executive trusts.
• Fluency with technology and AI programmes, and the judgement to govern a build without running it.
• Clear reporting to executives: steering papers, status that says what is true, and the hard conversations when it slips.
• Experience managing delivery from the consultancy or partner side, collaborating with client teams, and getting traction without formal authority.
• You run yourself: you set your own plan, keep your commitments, ask early when you are stuck, and need little oversight. We are a studio of collaborators who are very good at what they do, and we hire the same.

• Project based to begin, as a contractor to Imagineers, with the potential to grow into a full-time role.
• Based in Sydney, working alongside our founder. Client work is a mix of on site and remote, with travel when a project needs it.
• Work alongside senior strategists, designers, researchers and technologists.
• Use whichever tools you prefer for your own work. You will work in our tools for work management and communication, such as Linear and Slack.