Sr. Director, Program amp Change Management

📋 Description

• • Own and orchestrate the full portfolio of Datasite’s six highest-impact Strategic Initiatives, acting as the single accountable leader who turns ambitious corporate strategy into measurable business value.
• • Build, coach, and inspire a high-performing team of 15-50 Program & Project Managers in a matrixed environment, ensuring every initiative is delivered on scope, on time, and on budget while continuously raising the bar on quality and consistency.
• • Serve as the primary change agent who transforms how Datasite operates—driving adoption of new processes, tools, and mindsets across product, engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success so the company can scale at speed without losing agility.
• • Partner directly with the SVP EPMO, functional VPs, and executive sponsors to translate long-range planning goals into quarterly OKRs, monthly business reviews, and weekly execution cadences that keep every stakeholder aligned and energized.
• • Chair weekly Strategic Initiative leadership forums and quarterly portfolio reviews, using data-driven insights to spotlight risks, dependencies, and opportunities while rapidly escalating and resolving blockers before they impact customers or revenue.
• • Define and enforce enterprise-grade governance, standards, and KPIs in lockstep with the EPMO, ensuring every project—from early-stage research through proof-of-concept, go-to-market, and ongoing lifecycle management—follows a repeatable, auditable path to success.
• • Drive end-to-end portfolio planning that balances new product introduction, market expansion, AI deal-sourcing enhancements, and platform modernization, allocating resources dynamically as priorities shift and markets evolve.
• • Create and maintain a transparent communication architecture that delivers crisp, visual status updates to the enterprise steering committee, board members, and frontline teams alike, cultivating trust and enabling fast, fact-based decisions.
• • Champion rigorous risk management by institutionalizing dependency mapping, scenario planning, and early-warning indicators so the organization can pivot quickly without derailing strategic momentum.
• • Institutionalize a culture of continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned, embedding best practices from Smartsheet, Jira, and industry frameworks, and mentoring the next generation of program leaders.
• • Lead the design and rollout of a scalable Program Change Management framework that supports Monthly Business Review assessments, accelerates user adoption, and quantifies the ROI of every transformation effort.
• • Act as the voice of the customer inside every strategic program, ensuring that user experience, security, compliance, and commercial outcomes are never compromised as new capabilities are launched.
• • Track multi-year financial performance against budget and LRP goals, partnering with Finance to re-forecast investments, re-allocate headcount, and optimize spend so every dollar advances strategic intent.
• • Foster an inclusive, high-integrity culture where diverse perspectives are celebrated, healthy debate is encouraged, and every teammate feels empowered to bring their superpower to work every day.