Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy Execution & Integration

Job Summary: The Senior Director Enterprise Strategy Execution & Integration is the Chief of Staffs principal partner for strengthening how IEEE works across a highly matrixed federated organization. This role exists to ensure that enterprise strategy Board and presidential direction and cross-cutting priorities are executed in a coordinated intersectional and disciplined manner rather than within isolated silos.

A core focus of this role is improving IEEEs ability to operate effectively across organizational units committees and leadership domains aligning people priorities and timing so that enterprise initiatives advance with clarity and momentum. The Senior Director plays a critical role in enabling the IEEE President to function as a more externally facing impact-oriented representative of the organization supported by coherent internal execution consistent messaging and reliable follow-through.

Operating through influence rather than direct authority this role strengthens enterprise execution supports brand coherence and increases IEEEs credibility with external partners by ensuring that what IEEE signals externally is backed by aligned internal action.

Core Purpose: To ensure that IEEEs enterprise strategy presidential leadership priorities and innovation investments are executed coherently aligned across the organization and sustained through delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy & Presidential Execution

• Serve as the primary integrator of enterprise strategy Board direction presidential priorities and innovation initiatives.

• Translate enterprise and presidential priorities into executable workplans with clear ownership sequencing milestones and timelines.

• Oversee dependency management readiness and execution planning across organizational units to ensure follow-through.

• Monitor progress surface risks and tradeoffs and recommend corrective actions to the Chief of Staff.

Innovation Governance & Integration

• Provide enterprise-level governance and integration support for the Office of Innovation to ensure alignment with IEEEs strategic plan.

• Partner closely with the Chief Innovation Officer and innovation leadership to:

  • Pressure-test initiatives against enterprise priorities

  • Establish clear decision criteria for advancing pausing or stopping initiatives

  • Align innovation pipelines with organizational capacity and execution ownership

• Ensure innovation outputs transition into operational delivery pathways rather than remaining isolated pilots or platforms.

• Support innovation-related committees by ensuring their work is decision-oriented and connected to execution expectations.

Cross-Organizational Integration & Change Management

• Serve as the enterprise integrator for initiatives spanning multiple organizational units portfolios or leadership domains.

• Align timelines inputs and dependencies to reduce duplication execution friction and unnecessary escalation.

• Lead change-management approaches for enterprise initiatives including sequencing readiness adoption and sustained follow-through.

• Maintain momentum during leadership transitions annual presidential cycles or periods of competing priorities.

Committee Governance & Executive Support

• Provide staff leadership for strategy- alignment- and innovation-related committees as operating bodies with clear workplans and deliverables.

• Translate governance decisions and recommendations into coordinated execution actions.

• Support preparation for Board meetings retreats and key executive engagements where strategy innovation or enterprise execution is involved.

• Serve as execution lead for Board- and President-commissioned initiatives requiring enterprise coordination.

Operational Authority & Continuity

• Act as decision authority for routine execution matters and escalation point for complex or time-sensitive cross-cutting issues.

• Serve as acting Chief of Staff when required.

• Maintain execution continuity during periods of organizational change or leadership transition.

Trusted Partner to the Chief of Staff

• Act as a senior thought partner on execution strategy prioritization and organizational dynamics.

• Provide candid assessments of where execution is breaking down and recommend corrective actions.

• Support the Chief of Staff in maintaining coherence across strategy innovation presidential leadership and organizational delivery.

Authority & Operating Principles

• Exercises horizontal authority and convening power on behalf of the Chief of Staff.

• Does not conduct performance reviews manage compensation or independently control budgets.

• Operates through influence facilitation and structured execution discipline.

• Success is measured by outcomes alignment reduced execution risk and sustained delivery.

Qualifications

• 15 years of experience in enterprise execution strategy implementation governance operations or complex organizational leadership.

• Demonstrated success operating in matrixed environments without direct authority.

• Demonstrated experience developing launching scaling deploying and sunsetting new products programs or platforms within highly matrixed federated organizations including influencing senior decision-makers to make clear tradeoffs align on priorities and take timely scale stop or sunset decisions across diverse stakeholder groups

• Strong understanding of governance committee operations and Boardstaff dynamics.

• Exceptional judgment discretion and credibility with senior leaders.

• Proven ability to integrate diverse workstreams and drive sustained execution.

• Strong strategic orientation paired with practical disciplined execution skills.

• Highly trusted steady presence with strong situational awareness.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and organizational complexity.

• Bias toward clarity action and followthrough. Deep commitment to collaboration professionalism and shared success.