Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy Execution & Integration

IEEE•Piscataway, NJ

14h

About The Position

The Senior Director, Enterprise Strategy Execution & Integration is the Chief of Staff’s 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 IEEE’s 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 IEEE’s credibility with external partners by ensuring that what IEEE signals externally is backed by aligned internal action. Core Purpose: To ensure that IEEE’s enterprise strategy, presidential leadership priorities, and innovation investments are executed coherently, aligned across the organization, and sustained through delivery.

Requirements

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 Board‑staff 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 follow‑through. Deep commitment to collaboration, professionalism, and shared success.

Responsibilities

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.
Provide enterprise-level governance and integration support for the Office of Innovation to ensure alignment with IEEE’s 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.