Organizational Strategy & Operations Lead

The Organizational Strategy & Operations Lead partners directly with the VP of Commercial Architecture & Solutions to translate organizational priorities into action, strengthen operating effectiveness, and accelerate execution across the leadership team.

This role serves as a connector and force multiplier across the organization, helping establish clarity on priorities, drive leadership operating rhythms, coordinate cross-functional initiatives, and ensure important commitments move from discussion to execution.

The role will also lead strategic and special initiatives that span teams or do not have a natural organizational owner, bringing structure to ambiguous problems and driving them through completion.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the VP and leadership team to translate strategic priorities into clear organizational objectives, initiatives, investments, and actions.
• Lead annual and long-range organizational planning, including priorities, resource and budget needs, capability development, and organizational effectiveness.
• Drive alignment across architecture, engineering, solutions, and innovation teams, identifying gaps, overlaps, dependencies, and emerging issues that require leadership attention.
• Own and continuously improve the leadership team's operating rhythm, including staff meetings, strategic reviews, planning sessions, and offsites, with a focus on decisions, accountability, and execution.
• Drive follow-through on leadership decisions and commitments, ensuring clear ownership, actions, timing, and escalation of issues when needed.
• Synthesize complex technical, business, and organizational information into clear recommendations, decision points, and executive-level materials.
• Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives and organizational changes that span teams, require focused coordination, or do not have a natural owner.
• Improve organizational effectiveness by simplifying processes, accelerating decision-making, strengthening collaboration, and reducing unnecessary organizational overhead.
• Take on emerging priorities and special projects on behalf of the VP, quickly bringing structure, ownership, and execution to ambiguous or time-sensitive needs.

Education & Experience Recommended:

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 7-10 years of work experience, preferably in engineering development and implementation, project planning tools and software packages, people management, or a related field.

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave