About The Role

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 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. Capability & Talent 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. Performance & Culture 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. Organizational Effectiveness 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. Employee Experience & Engagement Build an environment that reinforces ownership, innovation, continuous learning, and accountability. Strengthen communication and employee feedback during periods of significant transformation. Success Measures 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 Requirements 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.