Organization Effectiveness & Design Lead
Job Description
The Organization Development team at WD owns the enterprise-wide frameworks that shape how the company is structured, how work gets done, and how the workforce evolves alongside the business. As an Organization Architect Lead, you will be the hands-on practitioner who takes those frameworks and makes them operational — translating org design principles and workforce planning methodology into tools, processes, and standards that HR business partners and people leaders can actually use. This is a high-visibility individual contributor role sitting directly below the Director of Organizational Development, and you'll carry real ownership over the work that helps WD navigate AI-driven workforce transformation at scale.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Workforce Planning
• Develop and maintain enterprise workforce planning models that identify current and future talent gaps, capability needs, and structural risks across critical functions
• Partner with HR business partners and finance to align headcount plans with business strategy, growth projections, and organizational priorities
• Build reporting and tracking mechanisms that give senior leaders and HRBPs clear visibility into workforce composition, readiness, and risk
Organization Design
• Support the design and execution of org design engagements — restructuring teams, clarifying accountabilities, and optimizing spans of control in partnership with senior HRBPs and business leaders
• Develop and maintain standardized org design tools, templates, and decision frameworks that enable consistent, data-driven structural decisions across WD
• Analyze organizational health indicators — including span of control, role clarity, and team structure — and translate findings into actionable recommendations
AI Transformation
• Operationalize standard practices for AI adoption within the OD function — including assessment frameworks, playbooks, and implementation guides that teams can apply consistently
• Partner with HR leadership to assess workforce implications of AI-driven changes, including role evolution, capability gaps, and structural adjustments needed to support adoption
• Document and codify AI-related org design learnings so that best practices scale across the enterprise rather than living in individual engagements
Capability Building & Advisory
• Facilitate training and coaching sessions that build org design and workforce planning capability in HR business partners and people leaders
• Advise on high-priority organizational effectiveness challenges, bringing structured diagnosis and practical recommendations rather than abstract frameworks
• Coordinate with Workforce Analytics to ensure workforce data informs design decisions and planning models
Requirements
Function: Human Resources
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level