Strategic Digital Transformation & PMIS Services Leader

About the Positions

We’re seeking Strategic Digital Transformation & PMIS Services Leaders to expand our owner-side digital transformation and PMIS advisory practice serving mega capital infrastructure construction programs across aviation, ports, rail/transit, transportation, utilities, energy, water, or public works sectors. You’ll lead executive discovery and roadmap work, shape PMIS strategy that ties governance, cost, schedule, risk, and reporting into a practical owner operating model, and partner with leadership to convert market opportunities into well-positioned scopes and account growth.

This post is for future roles and not for a specific opportunity that is available right now. We accept applications and conduct interviews in advance of upcoming hiring needs. When a candidate is selected, their profile is activated in our talent pool for this specialty area. We notify our talent pool candidates first whenever we have a project need. These positions target professionals in the Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Francisco, and Oakland, CA regions and will require approximately 10% travel monthly (hybrid between home office and project sites).

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead executive discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews, and current-state assessments that shape digital transformation roadmaps for public infrastructure owners.
• Develop PMIS strategies that connect governance, program controls, cost, schedule, risk, documents, and reporting into a practical, owner-focused operating model.
• Partner with leadership and business development to translate market opportunities into well-positioned scopes, proposals, and account-expansion strategies.
• Develop proposal budgets for pursuit submittals.
• Forecast resource needs across the Digital Transformation practice as pursuits and engagements scale.
• Develop service-line messaging, advisory frameworks, and pursuit narratives that position Luster as a tool-agnostic owner advisor.
• Oversee data governance and executive dashboarding strategy without steering clients toward a single software platform.
• Coordinate with strategic partners and prime contractors to define scope boundaries, delivery assumptions, and measurable client outcomes.
• Mentor team members and help mature Center of Excellence templates, methods, and delivery standards.
• Represent Luster in pursuits and client engagements where advisory judgment and infrastructure-sector credibility are critical.

Attributes

• Owner-side mindset that builds client capability, transparency, and confidence in program data rather than creating dependency on any single vendor or platform.
• Infrastructure credibility rooted in capital programs, public agencies, and the realities of large, multi-stakeholder construction delivery.
• Tool-agnostic judgment, able to work across systems, workflows, and analytics platforms without defaulting to one software answer.
• Executive communication that lands with agency leaders, program executives, primes, and internal leadership alike.
• Builder orientation, comfortable creating structure, playbooks, and repeatable methods as the practice matures.
• Commercial awareness of how capture strategy, account expansion, and client trust translate into new scopes and service-line growth.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of experience in digital transformation, PMIS advisory, or program controls strategy on mega capital infrastructure construction programs across aviation, ports, rail/transit, transportation, utilities, energy, water, or public works.
• Experience serving public infrastructure owners in an advisory capacity on PMIS or program controls strategy.
• Experience leading discovery-to-roadmap engagements and managing client relationships from strategy through implementation oversight.
• Working knowledge of public agency funding, procurement, governance, and executive-reporting requirements on capital infrastructure programs.
• Experience with PMIS, ERP integration, data platforms, or analytics tools supporting capital-program technology strategy.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 (e.g., Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in construction management, engineering management, business administration, or public administration.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or similar program/PMO-focused certification.
• Experience in owner's representative or program management roles on capital infrastructure programs.
• Experience developing service-line strategy, capture positioning, or account-expansion plans for a consulting or advisory practice.
• Experience with GIS, BIM, digital-twin, or AI-enabled decision-support platforms in capital-program environments.
• Experience with Power BI or equivalent executive dashboarding and analytics tools.

Compensation Details

Expected Salary: $180k-$220k/year ($87-$106/hour). Luster provides the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might offer for this position based on the successful candidate’s level of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, education, certifications, licenses, geographic location, etc. Luster reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range depending on circumstances not related to any status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

Just LOOK at the Benefits We Offer!

• Unlimited flexible time off
• Paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts (healthcare and dependent or elder care)
• Long-term disability insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment
• 401(k) plan with guaranteed employer contribution
• Formal career planning and development program
• $2,500 annually toward professional development
• Wellness program with monthly wellness stipend
• Company cell phone or cell phone plan reimbursement
• Free personalized meal planning and nutrition support with a registered dietitian
• Free personal financial planning services
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discounts
• Employee referral bonus

Specific plan details and coverage for each benefit noted above will be provided upon offer.

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Luster is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to criminal history, race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.

All positions may be subject to a background check and drug test once a conditional offer of employment is made for any convictions directly related to its duties and responsibilities, in accordance with all applicable local, state, and/or federal regulations.

This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required for the position.

Luster does not accept unsolicited resumes from any third-party. In the absence of a signed agreement, Luster will not consider or agree to payment of any kind. Any unsolicited resumes presented to Luster personnel, including those submitted to Luster hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Luster.

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