Senior Director, Business Operations

Braze Braze · Enterprise · AMER · Marketing

This role is a Senior Director of Business Operations, reporting to the CBO. The primary focus is on architecting and leading the long-term vision for transforming business processes through AI and automation, building scalable frameworks for the CBO organization. Responsibilities include operational planning, strategic initiatives, OKR ownership, board preparation, operational governance, and team leadership. The role requires 12+ years of experience in Consulting, Business Planning, or Strategy/Operations within SaaS, with expertise in financial planning and creating scalable business frameworks. The company, Braze, offers a customer engagement platform with AI capabilities (BrazeAI).

What you'd actually do

  1. AI & Automation Strategy: Architect and lead the long-term vision for transforming business processes through AI, building the scalable frameworks required to drive sophisticated automation across the CBO organization
  2. Operational Planning: Orchestrate long-range and annual strategy cycles in close partnership with Finance, maintaining a high-performance global operating rhythm
  3. Strategic Initiatives & Long-Range Planning: Lead the execution of high-impact strategic initiatives, ensuring resource allocation and investments are precisely aligned with priority market tiers and GTM motions to realize the company vision
  4. OKR Ownership & Operating Rhythm: Spearhead the end-to-end, company-wide OKR process, synchronizing CBO and organizational objectives to ensure total alignment across all executive stakeholders
  5. Board Preparation: Lead the end-to-end operational process of gathering data, coordinating with cross-functional partners, and managing the review timeline for all Board of Directors materials.

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of experience in Consulting, Business Planning, or Strategy/Operations, specifically within SaaS
  • Proven track record of managing and developing high-performing teams for complex, cross-functional execution
  • Deep expertise in financial planning, budget management, and creating scalable business frameworks

What the JD emphasized

  • AI & Automation Strategy
  • transforming business processes through AI
  • scalable frameworks
  • sophisticated automation
  • high-performance global operating rhythm
  • high-impact strategic initiatives
  • company-wide OKR process
  • global business practices
  • world-class operations team