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Position Purpose:
The Director - Chief of Staff for the CTO serves as a strategic and trusted extension of the CTO, providing enterprise-level leadership support across strategy and visibility, project management, and communication and execution. The role enables a high performing, aligned and synchronized organization by ensuring the right priorities, information and decisions are elevated at the right time to drive results.
Key Focus Areas
- Strategy & Visibility: Drive alignment and prioritization of enterprise and functional strategic initiatives. Provide visibility into key priorities, projects, risks and decisions impacting the EVP agenda.
- Project Management: Provides centralized end to end project management oversight and support of key initiatives.
- Communication & Execution: Develops and implements effective communication on behalf of the EVP to drive alignment and clarity to support decision making and execution.
Key Responsibilities:
40% Strategy & Planning:
- Partners with functional and technical leaders to identify and plan capabilities necessary to meet short and long-term business needs.
- Develops and executes strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner.
- Informs and drives strategic alignment and partnerships with functional and technical peers and leaders.
- Connects the dots across multiple levels and related functions to understand the business holistically.
- Evaluates research and market analysis, meets with third party vendors, and maintains knowledge of industry innovations and technology platforms to inform strategy.
- Establishes and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; influences vendors to align to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives.
- Drives growth for the business by applying technical and domain expertise to provide thought leadership and translate vision into action.
40% Delivery & Execution:
- Defines and communicates value propositions, success metrics, and outcomes.
- Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met.
- Develops, plans, and implements sustainable, repeatable, and reliable processes; oversees process improvement.
- Drives operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics while prioritizing external customer needs.
- Understands and articulates the value creation and business proposition to teams and functional partners.
20% People:
- Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports.
- Manages and coordinates strategic direction for staff.
- Attracts, retains, develops, and motivates top talent.
- Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback.
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- Typically reports to CTO.
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 8-10 years of relevant work experience.
- Strategic program leadership — End-to-end project management experience for enterprise initiatives, including OKRs and milestone tracking.
- Cross-functional influence — Drives alignment across business stakeholders in matrixed orgs.
- Executive communication — Crafts leadership messaging that translates technical priorities into clear direction.
- Operating rhythm design — Runs leadership cadences, planning cycles, and governance forums.
- Proficient in leading at a Sr. Manager level or above within a fast-paced, multi-division, national company.
- Proficient in defining, communicating, and driving value propositions, success metrics, and outcomes
- Proficient in shaping, aligning, and guiding execution of strategic direction for a domain or significant portfolio segment
- Proficient in communicating, building influence, and developing relationships with functional and technical leaders, with high-level vendor partners, and across all levels in the organization
- Proficient in selecting and leading strategic vendor relationships or acting as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships
- Proficient in managing and developing direct reports with their own span of control
- Proficient in utilizing deep market and industry knowledge for a related portfolio segment or domain to achieve strategic objectives
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
- No additional years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience:
Preferred Leadership Experience:
Certifications:
Competencies:
- Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
- Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
- Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
- Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Courage: Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said
- Cultivates Innovation: Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful
- Customer Focus: Builds strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
- Decision Quality: Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward
- Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
- Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
- Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
- Drives Vision and Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action
- Financial Acumen: Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions
- Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related organizational dynamics
- Persuades: Using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others
- Plans and Aligns: Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
- Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations
- Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies
- Tech Savvy: Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:
The pay range for this position is between $190,000.00 - $300,000.00
