Senior Director, Product & Business Operations
About The Position
As Senior Director, Product & Business Operations, you will partner directly with senior business leaders to translate strategy into results. You will serve as the operational integrator across Product Management, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, HR, and Corporate Development, ensuring that priorities are aligned and execution remains on track. You will build the operating mechanisms, performance management systems, and business processes that enable growth, accelerate decision making, and improve organizational effectiveness. This role combines the disciplines of business operations, strategy execution, program leadership, and organizational transformation. This position is an opportunity to become a strategic operating partner to senior leadership, influence the direction of a critical business, and drive impact across product strategy, execution, growth, and transformation. The successful candidate will help shape the future of the organization while developing broad executive exposure and a path toward larger business leadership responsibilities.
Requirements
- 15+ years of business, operations, product, engineering, or related leadership experience.
- Track record of successfully driving cross-functional teams to successful outcomes.
- Proven success operating in complex technology-based businesses.
- Strong experience leading cross-functional initiatives across multiple organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to drive business performance through data, metrics, and operational discipline.
- Experience partnering with senior executives and influencing decisions at the leadership level.
- Strong financial and business acumen, including planning, forecasting, investment analysis, and performance management.
- Outstanding communication, organizational, and stakeholder-management skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in networking, telecommunications, optical networking, semiconductors, photonics, data infrastructure, or related technology sectors.
- Experience with product development, product introduction, and manufacturing scale-up.
- Exposure to mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, or post-merger integration.
- Experience leading business transformation or AI-enabled operational initiatives.
- MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders to define and execute business strategy, annual operating plans, and growth objectives.
- Translate long-term business goals into actionable priorities and measurable outcomes.
- Drive resource allocation, investment decisions, and organizational trade-offs.
- Support strategic growth initiatives, partnerships, acquisitions, and integration activities.
- Identify business risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Establish and lead the organization's operating rhythm, including weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews.
- Develop and maintain executive scorecards and key performance indicators.
- Create transparency around business performance, execution risks, and organizational priorities.
- Drive accountability for commitments and ensure timely resolution of issues.
- Lead complex initiatives spanning multiple organizations and global teams.
- Align stakeholders across Product Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, HR, and Sales.
- Remove barriers to execution and accelerate decision-making.
- Build strong partnerships across functions to drive business results.
- Drive initiatives that improve scalability, productivity, and organizational effectiveness.
- Champion digital transformation, process simplification, automation, and AI-enabled workflows.
- Identify opportunities to improve forecasting, reporting, operational efficiency, and business insight.
- Lead continuous improvement efforts that enhance execution and decision quality.
- Lead or coordinate business-critical initiatives, including new product introduction, commercialization and production ramps; margin improvement programs; cost reduction initiatives; operations and supply-chain transformation; business scaling programs; mergers, acquisitions, and integration efforts; and executive strategic initiatives.
- Develop executive-level business reviews and presentations.
- Provide data-driven analysis and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Support major customer engagements, strategic planning activities, and leadership reviews.
- Ensure leaders have timely visibility into business performance, opportunities, and risks.
- Support workforce planning and organizational design.
- Partner with leaders to build high-performing teams.
- Strengthen talent pipelines, succession planning, and leadership development.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
