Sr. Director, AI Powered Service Delivery & Automation - Evergreen

About Rimini Street, Inc. Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a proven, trusted global provider of end-to-end, mission-critical enterprise software support, managed services and innovative Agentic AI ERP solutions, and is the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software. Our comprehensive portfolio of unified solutions help run, manage, support, customize, configure, connect, protect, monitor, and optimize enterprise application, database and technology software, enabling our clients to achieve better business outcomes, significantly reduce costs and reallocate resources towards strategic projects. The Company has signed thousands of contracts with Fortune Global 100, Fortune 500, midmarket, public sector and government organizations who selected Rimini Street as their trusted, proven mission-critical enterprise software solutions provider and achieved better operational outcomes, realized billions of US dollars in savings and funded AI and other innovation investments. We are actively seeking an experienced Sr. Director, AI Powered Service Delivery & Automation to join our team. This remote Malaysia–based role reports to the GVP of Global Service Delivery Operations. Position Summary The Sr. Director, AI-Powered Service Delivery & Automation is responsible for defining and executing Rimini Street's AI-powered managed services strategy and leading the transformation of AMS from a labor-based support model to an intelligence-driven, automation-enabled service delivery organization. Leveraging AI, agentic workflows, AIOps, observability, and autonomous operations, this leader will design and scale capabilities that improve engineer productivity, automate service delivery activities, accelerate issue resolution, reduce cost-to-serve, and enhance client outcomes across ERP and cloud platforms. This role is accountable for establishing and achieving measurable automation, AI adoption, productivity, service quality, and service economics targets across the AMS portfolio while driving the adoption of next-generation delivery capabilities globally. The successful candidate will bring a proven track record of deploying AI and automation at scale within managed services environments and delivering measurable business outcomes through operational innovation. Success will be measured by increases in automated and AI-assisted resolution rates, reductions in manual engineering effort and cost-to-serve, improvements in service margins, and the establishment of scalable autonomous support capabilities. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Lead AI-Powered Service Delivery Transformation Define and execute the roadmap for AI-driven managed services across ERP and cloud platforms. Identify and prioritize opportunities to automate diagnosis, triage, resolution, knowledge creation, documentation, and client communications. Establish business cases, governance, and measurable objectives for automated resolution, ticket deflection, engineer productivity, service quality, and margin improvement. Partner across Delivery, Engineering, AI, Product, and Operations teams to drive innovation and adoption. Build AI-Enabled and Autonomous Service Operations Design and deploy AI-powered assistants, copilots, agentic workflows, and enterprise knowledge capabilities that improve support effectiveness and consistency. Leverage AI, large language models, automation platforms, and knowledge assets to automate support activities and enable autonomous service operations. Establish standards for AI governance, operational controls, performance measurement, and responsible AI adoption. Drive the transition from reactive support to predictive, proactive, and autonomous service delivery. Design and deploy capabilities that increase automated and autonomous case resolution while reducing manual engineering effort. Drive AIOps and Intelligent Operations Implement AIOps, observability, monitoring, and analytics capabilities to predict, prevent, and remediate service disruptions. Advance self-healing operations through automated remediation, anomaly detection, event correlation, and predictive service management. Partner with ServiceNow and infrastructure teams to mature ITOM, CMDB, service mapping, discovery, and operational intelligence capabilities. Lead AMS Delivery Transformation Build and lead a global AMS Automation & AI Center of Excellence responsible for AI engineering, intelligent automation, service innovation, and next-generation delivery capabilities. Transform AMS delivery from manual, case-driven execution to AI-assisted and automation-enabled workflows. Standardize scalable delivery patterns, automation frameworks, and operational practices across ERP and cloud service offerings. Drive adoption across global delivery teams and leadership to ensure solutions are embedded into day-to-day operations. Partner with Product, Sales, and Delivery leadership to develop AI-enabled service offerings that enhance client value and differentiate Rimini Street in the marketplace. Improve Productivity and Service Efficiency Deliver capabilities that reduce administrative overhead and improve resolution speed, throughput, first-contact resolution, and engineer productivity. Implement AI-assisted troubleshooting, intelligent routing, knowledge recommendations, automated documentation, and reusable resolution patterns. Establish measurable improvements in cost-to-serve, service quality, and operational performance. Deliver Scalable Platform Automation Design and implement reusable automation solutions across ERP and cloud platforms, including diagnostics, monitoring, integration management, configuration validation, and release impact assessment. Modernize service management processes by embedding automation, improving workflow efficiency, and enhancing operational visibility and reporting. Ensure solutions are scalable, practical, and aligned to client, delivery, and business outcomes. Desired Experience 12+ years leading enterprise managed services, service operations, or technology transformation organizations. Proven track record implementing AI-driven automation, autonomous operations, or digital labor solutions that materially improve service delivery performance and economics. Experience deploying AI platforms, agentic workflows, enterprise knowledge systems, copilots, and intelligent automation capabilities at scale. Strong technical leadership with credibility across architecture, engineering, AI, operations, and executive stakeholder communities. Experience with AIOps, observability, ITOM, predictive operations, automation frameworks, and enterprise service management platforms. Deep understanding of enterprise application support models across ERP and cloud platforms, including SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, and Microsoft technologies. Demonstrated success building new capabilities and leading global transformation programs that improve automation rates, productivity, service quality, customer outcomes, and margin performance. Experience delivering measurable reductions in support effort, ticket volume, or cost-to-serve through AI, automation, or autonomous operations. Experience leading geographically distributed engineering, platform, or automation teams within a global managed services organization. Desired Skills Deep expertise in AI-driven service delivery, agentic automation, autonomous operations, AIOps, observability, and intelligent automation platforms. Strong technical foundation in APIs, integrations, orchestration, automation frameworks, and enterprise service management technologies. Ability to translate technology innovation into measurable business outcomes, including productivity gains, cost reduction, service quality improvements, and margin expansion. Technology-first leadership style with the ability to lead at strategic, architectural, and operational levels. Proven success driving organizational transformation, stakeholder alignment, and adoption across global teams. Exceptional analytical, communication, and influencing skills with experience building and scaling high-performing teams and Centers of Excellence. Education Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) required; advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred. Location Remote – Malaysia Why Rimini Street? We are looking for talented, passionate people to help us build our future at Rimini Street. We hire only the best, the most extraordinary professionals and provide compensation, bonuses, and benefits to match the skills of our top-performing team members. Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy growing together, and get excited about learning new skills? Are you looking for an opportunity to make a true impact as part of a team of extraordinary professionals? This is the place for you. Our work is challenging and meaningful. We start and end each day with a sense of achievement and purpose guided by our core values, the Four Cs: Company We dream big and innovate boldly. Colleagues We work with extraordinary people who create a culture of mutual respect and collaboration. Clients We relentlessly pursue solutions that help clients achieve their goals. Our unmatched client care is rooted in our passion for exceptional service. Community We believe in leaving the world a better place than we found it. With the Rimini Street Foundation, we’ve made positive impacts in six continents for over 425 charities. Accelerating Company Growth Nasdaq-listed under ticker symbol RMNI since October 2017 Over 6,300+ signed contracts to date, including Fortune 500 and Global 100 companies Over 2,000 team members in 23 countries US and international recognition for industry leadership and philanthropic efforts. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Unsolicited resumes will be ineligible for referral fees. In 2005, we disrupted the industry by pioneering extraordinary enterprise software support powered by extraordinary people. Our work is challenging and meaningful, allowing everyone at Rimini Street to start and end each day with a sense of achievement and purpose. We are looking for talented, passionate people to help us build our future at Rimini Street. 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