Senior Director, Transformation

Summary

Join Great Minds as a Sr. Director, Transformation and lead high-velocity initiatives to accelerate organizational growth. You will collaborate with executive leadership to define and implement transformation strategies, working across teams to design solutions and drive lasting change. This role requires strong leadership, analytical skills, and experience in transformation projects. The position offers remote work and a competitive salary. Success in this role will involve shaping key initiatives, building cross-functional teams, and using data-driven decision-making to achieve strategic objectives. The ideal candidate will have a strong bias for action and a proven track record of leading successful transformation programs.

Requirements

• Minimum ten years of relevant experience in professional services, management consulting, or internal consulting role influencing senior leaders with five years of experience leading high performing cross-functional teams
• Experience working in transformation or project-based environment and building and scaling cross-functional transformation programs from concept to completion
• Highly intellectually curious and excellent navigating ambiguous environments and unfamiliar domains
• Strong engagement and consulting skills; ability to build strong relationships and work effectively across all levels in a highly matrixed environment
• Ability to work autonomously with strong bias for action, with attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills
• Exceptional business acumen and able to use understanding of business, human capital, and technology to shape transformation initiatives
• High discretion, confidentiality, and executive presence and strong interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Deep analytical capabilities and demonstrated ability to use diagnostic skills to identify the business problem and recommend or lead appropriate interventions that improve business results
• Willingness to dive deep into processes and ‘roll-up sleeves’ to drive results
• Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Support Chief Transformation Officer to define 3-5 year transformation objectives and roadmap by collaborating with Great Minds' executive leadership team
• Create compelling cases for change through storytelling and facts for leadership and the organization
• Shape key transformation initiatives via written briefs and generate value creation models to support and scope investment cases
• Drive one or two concurrent transformation initiatives to successful implementation and effectively lead informal, matrixed, and dotted-line team(s) of business partners, change managers, and external contractors through complex and ambiguous work
• Work side-by-side with internal teams and partners in initiatives to drive lasting change and results and gets hands-on in designing and building new tools, systems, and ways of working
• Act as a change leader across Great Minds and provide training, coaching, and leadership development to ensure leaders are intentionally and actively building their capacity to change and achieve greater effectiveness
• Work in partnership with Analytics teams to use analytics on projects to quantify problems, guide solution development, and develop monitoring plans to measure solution effectiveness after launch
• Use facts and data to facilitate high-bar, data-driven inspection and decision making
• Apply methods of rapid-cycle hypothesis testing and proof-of-concepts to build and scale new tools, systems, processes, and ways of working

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of K-12 public education and education curriculum market a plus
• Experience in education curriculum or education technology or former teacher a plus

Benefits

• Remote work
• The expected base salary range for this position is $159,000-$190,000