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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director, Business Transformation & AI - **Company:** Olympia Development of Michigan, L.L.C. - **Location:** Detroit, MI, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Business Software - **Published:** September 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3203de2b64a34dda ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in related field required. * 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in business transformation, strategy, operations, consulting, innovation, or a related discipline. * Demonstrated success leading organizational change and driving adoption of new processes or technology across multiple functions. * Strong business judgment with the ability to translate between business needs and technical capability; deep technical or data-science credentials are not required. * Working fluency with AI and emerging technologies, with a clear focus on business application over technical depth. * Proven ability to influence and align stakeholders across departments and at the executive level. * Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to brief and persuade senior leadership. Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: * Advanced degree preferred. * Experience in real estate development, construction, hospitality, or a comparably complex, project-driven industry preferred. Core Competencies: * Champions change and challenges legacy thinking with conviction and credibility. * Brings genuine energy and passion for moving the organization forward. * Strong communication and executive presence. * High emotional intelligence, with the ability to influence without direct authority. * Sets priorities and drives results, with a strong bias for action. * Translates complexity into clarity for decision-makers. * Builds trust and collaborates effectively, including with central IT and across functions. * Exercises sound judgment and discretion with sensitive and confidential information. ## Description The Director of Business Transformation & AI leads how Olympia Development works, decides, and grows through the practical use of artificial intelligence and emerging technology. This is a business leadership role, not a technology role. Working in close partnership with Ilitch Companies' central IT organization - which owns the enterprise technology, platforms, and AI direction - this position is responsible for translating that capability into real change inside ODM: improving how work gets done, how knowledge is captured and used, how risk is identified, and how leadership makes decisions. The role demands a leader who can champion change, challenge legacy thinking, and drive meaningful evolution across the business - someone with the energy, conviction, and passion to move an organization forward, not simply to deploy tools., Lead Adoption and Change Management: * Own the adoption of AI and new ways of working across ODM's departments. * Teach and coach the team on practical, everyday use of AI, building fluency from the ground up. * Turn new tools into lasting habits, recognizing that most initiatives fail on behavior change, not technology., * Identify where ODM should change how it operates, not simply where tools can be added. * Redesign core processes to capture real gains rather than bolting AI onto existing workflows. * Prioritize the highest-value opportunities and sequence the work so results are visible., * Organize ODM's institutional knowledge - deal structures, partnership terms, entitlement history, construction lessons, and vendor experience - into a resource the team can find and reuse. * Turn fragmented information across files and systems into accessible business intelligence. * Ensure the business's accumulated experience becomes a durable organizational asset rather than knowledge trapped in files and individuals., * Make legal and contractual knowledge - development agreements, leases, contracts, and incentive documents - far easier to find, summarize, and act on across the business. * Support faster, more reliable contract review, lease abstraction, and document comparison. * Help leadership identify legal, contractual, and operational risk earlier, before it grows. * Partner with the legal team and outside counsel to improve both efficiency and insight. Champion Innovation and New Value: * Research and pursue new opportunities the business has not previously had the tools to take on. * Lead applied innovation on high-impact industry problems, including faster and more accurate construction cost estimating. * Bring forward creative, well-vetted solutions that create competitive advantage, not just efficiency., * Help senior leaders spend less time on administrative and routine analytical work and more time on judgment, relationships, negotiation, and decision-making. * Increase the organization's capacity to evaluate opportunities and reach sound decisions without adding senior headcount. * Strengthen leadership decision-making through faster, clearer synthesis of complex information. Ensure Responsible Governance: * Partner with central IT and the Director of AI Strategies to ensure AI is used responsibly and securely within ODM. * Establish clear, business-aligned standards for the use of AI with confidential deal, legal, and financial information. * Align ODM's adoption with enterprise-wide technology direction and standards.