Director, Strategy & Operations

Location: Dallas TX
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer

We are seeking an experienced Director of Strategy & Operations to lead enterprise planning executive governance and business performance initiatives for a rapidly growing organization.

This highly visible role will work closely with the COO CEO CFO and senior leadership team to translate long-term strategy into executable operating plans measurable goals and clear accountability across the business. The Director will lead key planning processes including the 3-Year Strategic Plan Annual Operating Plan Monthly Business Reviews OKRs executive reporting and board and investor preparation.

This position also carries direct leadership responsibility for an experienced Strategy & Operations team. The ideal candidate combines strong strategic thinking financial fluency executive communication and operational discipline with the ability to build scalable planning and governance processes in a fast-moving environment.

• Lead the development and ongoing refinement of the companys 3-Year Strategic Plan in partnership with executive leadership.
• Translate long-range strategic priorities into clear initiatives resource requirements milestones and measurable outcomes.
• Own the Annual Operating Plan process including planning calendars target setting cross-functional coordination and reconciliation with financial and strategic objectives.
• Partner closely with Finance and FP&A to ensure operating plans financial models forecasts and strategic priorities remain aligned.
• Support value-driver initiatives by identifying tracking and reporting on the key levers impacting business performance.
• Help maintain and improve enterprise business models used for scenario planning forecasting and executive decision-making.

• Own the structure preparation and operating cadence of Monthly Business Reviews.
• Synthesize financial operational and functional performance data into concise decision-ready executive narratives.
• Develop dashboards scorecards and reporting frameworks that provide leadership with clear visibility into business performance.
• Identify emerging risks performance gaps and strategic tradeoffs and drive follow-through on key leadership decisions.
• Design and maintain effective weekly monthly quarterly and annual business rhythms without creating unnecessary governance overhead.

• Lead the translation of enterprise-level priorities and OKRs into functional and team-level operating metrics.
• Ensure teams understand how their objectives connect to broader company goals.
• Establish mechanisms for tracking progress reconciling competing priorities and adjusting metrics as business conditions change.
• Partner with functional leaders to strengthen accountability and improve execution against strategic priorities.

• Lead development of board decks pre-reads briefing materials and supporting analysis in partnership with executive leadership.
• Prepare executive teams for board discussions by identifying gaps challenging assumptions and ensuring a clear and defensible narrative.
• Support investor meeting preparation by coordinating business financial and operational content across leadership and Finance.
• Help ensure consistency between internal operating metrics financial reporting and external executive communications.

• Lead and develop a team of experienced Strategy & Operations professionals.
• Establish priorities delegate ownership of major workstreams and provide coaching on executive-level analysis and communication.
• Own team hiring performance management development planning and succession.
• Build a culture of accountability strong judgment collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Identify gaps and friction within planning reporting and governance processes and lead improvements.
• Develop scalable frameworks templates tools and operating standards that improve organizational effectiveness.
• Build and maintain a centralized repository for core business processes creating a consistent source of truth for how key activities are executed.
• Represent Strategy & Operations in cross-functional leadership forums and ensure alignment between enterprise plans and functional execution.
• Act as a connector across teams helping resolve dependencies and improve collaboration.
• Support company-wide culture engagement and organizational effectiveness initiatives as needed.

• Bachelors degree in Business Finance Economics Engineering or a related field.
• 8 years of progressive experience in corporate strategy Strategy & Operations FP&A management consulting investment banking or a comparable function.
• Direct experience developing multi-year strategic plans and annual operating plans.
• Strong financial and analytical skills with the ability to connect strategic objectives to financial and operational performance.
• Experience preparing executive board and/or investor-level materials.
• Proven ability to synthesize complex and ambiguous information into clear recommendations and executive-ready narratives.
• Experience designing implementing or managing OKR or enterprise performance-management frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience leading experienced individual contributors and delegating meaningful ownership.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to work directly with C-suite leaders.
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives while maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written verbal analytical and presentation skills.

• MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
• Experience within a high-growth technology cloud infrastructure data center or related environment.
• Experience building Strategy & Operations planning or governance processes within a scaling organization.
• Background in management consulting investment banking corporate development or strategic finance.
• Experience with scenario modeling enterprise forecasting and value-driver analysis.
• Experience working within an investment-backed or rapidly scaling organization.

Strong candidates may come from corporate strategy Strategy & Operations management consulting strategic finance FP&A investment banking or similar roles where they have owned enterprise planning executive reporting performance management and cross-functional strategic initiatives.

The strongest profiles will combine executive-level strategic thinking with the operational discipline to turn strategy into measurable plans operating rhythms and accountability across the organization.