Executive Adoption Advisor - Enterprise AI Transformation
Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Experience: 10+ years
Work Location: Onsite
Engagement: Dedicated enterprise AI and Microsoft cloud transformation program
Role Type: Executive advisory, business transformation, and AI value realization
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Executive Adoption Advisor to partner with senior client leaders in driving enterprise-wide adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot, enterprise AI agents, and related Microsoft cloud capabilities.
The role will help business executives identify high-value AI opportunities, align adoption initiatives with strategic objectives, redesign ways of working, and establish measurable business outcomes from the organization's Microsoft 365 E7 investment.
Working closely with executive sponsors, business function leaders, IT leadership, and Orion's technical and change management teams, the advisor will translate AI capabilities into actionable business transformation initiatives and sustainable adoption strategies.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage executive sponsors and business leaders to define the AI adoption vision, strategic priorities, and expected business outcomes.
- Identify and prioritize AI opportunities across business functions, considering business value, feasibility, adoption readiness, risk, and time to value.
- Develop executive-level adoption roadmaps aligned with the Microsoft 365 E7 rollout and enterprise AI strategy.
- Advise leaders on how Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio agents, and custom AI solutions can transform workflows, employee productivity, and business operations.
- Facilitate executive workshops, leadership briefings, business value discovery sessions, and transformation planning discussions.
- Establish business outcome measures and value realization frameworks covering productivity, process efficiency, employee experience, quality, and operational performance.
- Help business leaders identify workflow redesign opportunities and changes required to realize benefits from AI-enabled ways of working.
- Develop stakeholder engagement strategies that build leadership sponsorship, accountability, and organizational commitment to AI adoption.
- Partner with the Change/Adoption Engineer and Copilot Trainer to translate executive priorities into functional adoption plans, targeted enablement, and employee engagement activities.
- Work with solution architects and technical teams to ensure proposed AI use cases align with business needs and realistic platform capabilities.
- Establish executive dashboards and reporting mechanisms to communicate adoption progress, business value, key risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Identify barriers to adoption, competing priorities, and organizational dependencies; recommend interventions to accelerate value realization.
- Capture success stories, business outcomes, and lessons learned to support enterprise-wide scaling and leadership engagement.
- Advise on responsible AI adoption, ensuring that business objectives remain aligned with enterprise governance and risk requirements.
Mandatory Skills and Experience
- 10+ years of experience in business transformation, technology consulting, digital adoption, enterprise advisory, or strategic program leadership.
- Demonstrated experience engaging senior executives and business stakeholders to shape transformation initiatives and drive organizational change.
- Strong understanding of enterprise productivity, workflow transformation, operating models, and technology-enabled business improvement.