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# SVP, Forward Deployed Strategist - Transformation & Strategic Change

- **Company:** Pacific Investment Management Company LLC
- **Location:** Newport Beach, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $250,000.0 - $305,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Information Extraction, Machine Learning, Rule Engine, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18349732?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18349732%2FSvp-Forward-Deployed-Strategist-Transformation-Strategic-Change-California-Newport-Beach

## About the Role

* 10+ years of Investment Management industry experience
 * Proven track record of leading technology-enabled change in large organizations
 * Proven success influencing senior stakeholders and aligning crossfunctional leaders around tradeoffs, operatingmodel changes, and funding decisions
 * Strong judgment on build/buy/partner decisions and the ability to negotiate scope, SLAs, and success criteria with internal and external partners
 * Handson experience redesigning target operating models across different functions
 * Strong capability to quantify business value-productivity gains, efficiency improvements, cost savings, or clientexperience enhancements-to support ROI modeling
 * Experience orchestrating solutions that combine information extraction, workflow automation, decision engines, and insight generation into endtoend business processes
 * Exceptional executive communication-briefs complex topics crisply, frames decisions and risks, and writes clear, decisionready materials
 * Ethical, intellectually curious, collaborative, organized, flexible, high energy, self-starter, accountable, humble
 * Formal training and strong interest in some of the following areas: artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, finance theory
 * MBA or relevant master's (e.g., MS in Finance/CS/Data Science) preferred
 * Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science or other technical field

## Description

* Lead and manage multiple transformational projects that leverage AI and have broad impact across the firm
 * Map business and investment workflows and value-creation processes across all areas of the firm
 * Apply structured diagnostic and prioritization frameworks to evaluate processes, identify transformation opportunities, and select highvalue use cases
 * Support IP leverage and scale-out of solutions across multiple transformation domains (e.g., legal, tax, onboarding, investment support)
 * Collaborate with business leaders firm-wide to ensure the solutions are scalable, effective, and deliverable within PIMCO's ecosystem
 * Grow the team's transformation capabilities through embedded partnerships with business units
 * Mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers and Strategists in the team


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