Senior Director, Venture Delivery

When you're the best, we're the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

We're seeking a dynamic operator who thrives in complexity and is energized by building. The ideal candidate brings a rare blend of strategic thinking and tactical execution, capable of shaping structure from ambiguity while driving measurable progress. As the operational anchor for Vizient's R&D ventures, this leader will drive disciplined execution across undefined and fast-evolving environments. Reporting to the VP of Venture Delivery, this individual will shape and maintain the internal operating rhythm, support early-stage venture scale-up, and ensure seamless coordination across internal and external stakeholders. They will be a hands-on leader with the strategic range to serve as "second-in-command," while building scalable systems, processes, and teams from the ground up. This role is ideal for a versatile operator with a track record of growing scope and complexity across domains, brings strong program discipline and is energized by creating rather than maintaining.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional execution from venture inception through scale across product, design, engineering, commercial, and operational workstreams.
• Design and institutionalize scalable operational frameworks (governance rhythms, milestone tracking, risk mitigation plans) to ensure speed and accountability without compromising compliance.
• Collaborate deeply with legal, privacy, and compliance teams, embedding operational risk management into product development timelines.
• Draft and deliver executive communications (internally and externally) that reinforce clarity and confidence across stakeholders.
• Facilitate structured collaboration across domains, aligning strategy and execution through clear operating cadences.
• Champion continuous improvement, bringing an agile, data-informed mindset to operational tooling, reporting systems, and team enablement.

Requirements

• Extensive operational leadership experience in early-stage or high-growth environments, ideally within product, technology or innovation portfolios.
• Background as a Chief of Staff, senior program manager, or operations lead, with both strategic foresight and tactical capability.
• A builder's mindset with proven experience designing new teams, workflows or operational systems from scratch.
• Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate alignment, and represent venture progress at the highest levels.
• Strong command of Agile and Scrum frameworks, with the fluency to guide execution approaches, not just participate in them.
• Operational rigor and technical fluency that's comfortable managing workflows, reporting systems and PM tools.
• Experience integrating and aligning with privacy, legal and compliance functions within a fast-paced development context.
• Proven ability to lead resource planning, budgeting, and hiring efforts in collaboration with senior functional leads.
• Adept at driving clarity and alignment across complex stakeholder networks, ensuring accountability and execution at scale.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

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http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

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