Organization Design Expert - Tech Focus - 12 Month Contract

The Organization Design Expert - Tech Focus role is a 12-month contract position based in the East Coast (NY/NJ, Atlanta, Charlotte, or South Florida).

About the role

This role is responsible for designing and optimizing technology operating models, organizational structures, governance frameworks, and workforce strategies that enable scalable, high-performing engineering and digital organizations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement target operating models for technology organizations.
• Define scalable organizational structures across engineering, product, architecture, platform, infrastructure, data, and delivery teams.
• Develop role architectures, accountability models, and organizational layers.
• Align organizational design with strategic business objectives and technology priorities.
• Support transformation initiatives including agile, DevOps, platform, and product-centric operating models.
• Develop span-of-control frameworks and management layering principles.
• Audit organizational efficiency, decision velocity, and leadership effectiveness.
• Create opportunities to simplify structures, remove duplication, and optimize team composition.
• Create organizational health metrics and benchmarking approaches.
• Establish governance structures for technology delivery and operational oversight.
• Define decision rights, escalation paths, forums, and accountability models.
• Create governance cadences supporting portfolio management, prioritization, risk, and delivery oversight.
• Improve cross-functional collaboration between technology, product, operations, finance, and business teams.
• Design delivery measurement frameworks and technology performance dashboards.
• Define engineering, delivery, and operational KPIs and OKRs.
• Enable data-driven performance management and continuous improvement practices.
• Establish reporting mechanisms to track organizational effectiveness and delivery outcomes.
• Lead workforce planning and organizational capacity modeling activities.
• Assess future capability needs across technology domains.
• Develop workforce strategies covering build/buy/borrow decisions, location strategy, and talent scalability.
• Partner with HR and technology leaders on succession planning, skills mapping, and capability development.
• Support organizational conversations related to restructuring, growth, transformation, and workforce optimization.
• Facilitate executive-level organizational design conversations and workshops.
• Present recommendations and insights to senior leadership stakeholders.
• Support organizational change management and transformation adoption activities.
• Build strong partnerships across HR, Finance, Strategy, and Technology leadership teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in organization design, operating model consulting, workforce transformation, or technology strategy.
• Strong experience working within technology and digital organizations.
• Proven track record designing operating models for engineering, product, platform, or technology functions.
• Experience defining governance models, decision frameworks, and organizational metrics.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery, product operating models, DevOps, and modern engineering organizations.
• Experience in workforce planning, organizational diagnostics, and transformation programs.
• Consulting background or experience within large-scale enterprise transformation environments preferred.

Skills

• Organization design methodologies
• Technology operating model design
• Workforce planning and organizational analytics
• Governance and decision-rights frameworks
• KPI / OKR framework development
• Delivery performance management
• Organizational diagnostics and assessment
• Change management and transformation delivery
• Executive stakeholder management
• Facilitation and workshop leadership
• Strategic problem solving
• Data-driven decision making
• Influencing and negotiation
• Communication and storytelling
• Cross-functional collaboration