Second Wave AI JobsAI-heavy roleTransformation · 1 day ago
Head of Performance
Freshfields · London or Manchester
Leads Freshfields’ performance team and its move to an AI-first, continuous performance model for the firm’s people.
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Editorial AI Transformation Lead
The Economist Group · London
Pay not listed · posted 16 Oct 2026Apply on employer site ↗
What this job really involves
Leads how The Economist’s editorial teams adopt AI in their workflows, balancing new ways of working with the paper’s standards.
The ad’s duties fit the usual pattern for transformation roles. In practice that tends to mean:
- Map how work gets done today and where AI could change it.
- Build business cases and a prioritised roadmap of AI initiatives.
- Run programmes across teams, from pilot to rollout.
- Manage the people side: communication, training and resistance to change.
- Report benefits back to leadership.
Who it suits
Programme, change and transformation managers who can lead a business through new ways of working.
Why it’s on Second Wave AI Jobs
AI in title
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