Senior Information Technology Business Operations Chief of Staff

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · Hazelwood, MO

Boeing is seeking a Senior Information Technology Business Operations Chief of Staff to support the BDS CIO Organization. This role involves providing strategic leadership and operational oversight, partnering with executive directors to accelerate priorities, ensure program delivery, and align stakeholders. The candidate will act as a trusted advisor, manage executive cadences, prepare materials, track metrics (OKRs, KPIs), translate data into actionable insights, support strategy execution, manage stakeholder relationships, oversee financial and workforce operations, and ensure effective communication across the organization. The role requires experience in IT/Digital/Engineering environments, program/portfolio delivery, stakeholder management, data-driven decision making, and executive presentations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a trusted advisor to synthesize issues, surface options, and recommend decision-grade actions
  2. Provide oversight of actions related to operations, risk, and portfolio/financial management; ensure consistent follow-through.
  3. Manage the executive director’s cadence (meetings, prep, readouts) and triage incoming requests to protect executive time
  4. Act as a strategic partner: anticipate needs, identify opportunities to scale or simplify work, and ensure initiatives align to the IDT&S vision and roadmap
  5. Prepare executive director’s communications including memos, talking points, and presentations

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work or military experience
  • 5+ years of experience in an Information Technology, Digital, or Engineering environment
  • 5+ years of experience with program and/or portfolio delivery
  • 5+ years of experience influencing and building strong relationships with stakeholders and senior leaders across functions
  • 5+ years of experience managing metrics to drive data driven solutions/decisions
  • 5+ years of experience developing presentations for and presenting to executive leadership
  • 5+ years of experience working in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity

Nice to have

  • 5+ years working in the aerospace industry
  • 5+ years of experience as an executive-level chief of staff or Office of CIO
  • 5+ years of experience in Program Management, Compliance, Risk Management and Finance
  • 5+ years of experience with the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) goal-setting framework
  • 5+ years working in complex environments and matrix organizations
  • 5+ years of experience in change management and organizational development

What the JD emphasized

  • Senior Information Technology Business Operations Chief of Staff
  • strategic leadership
  • operational oversight
  • accelerate strategic priorities
  • ensure program delivery
  • align cross-functional stakeholders
  • synthesize issues
  • surface options
  • recommend decision-grade actions
  • operations
  • risk
  • portfolio management
  • financial management
  • collaboration
  • continuous improvement
  • build alignment
  • remove blockers
  • track commitments
  • executive cadence
  • triage incoming requests
  • prepare materials
  • business performance updates
  • executive scorecard updates
  • dashboards
  • executive metrics
  • OKRs
  • KPIs
  • translate complex data
  • concise, actionable narratives
  • strategic partner
  • anticipate needs
  • scale or simplify work
  • IDT&S vision and roadmap
  • strategy into execution
  • plans with owners
  • milestones
  • measurable outcomes
  • stakeholder relationships
  • effective communication
  • multi-year business cases
  • priority setting
  • organizational change initiatives
  • budget-to-actuals
  • workforce and resourcing requests
  • headcount forecasts
  • executive director’s communications
  • memos
  • talking points
  • presentations
  • visual representations
  • nervous system
  • timely, consistent communication
  • leadership meetings
  • Employee Briefings
  • agenda and content preparation
  • notes dissemination
  • 5+ years of experience in an Information Technology, Digital, or Engineering environment
  • 5+ years of experience with program and/or portfolio delivery
  • 5+ years of experience influencing and building strong relationships with stakeholders and senior leaders across functions
  • 5+ years of experience managing metrics to drive data driven solutions/decisions
  • 5+ years of experience developing presentations for and presenting to executive leadership
  • 5+ years of experience working in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity
  • 5+ years working in the aerospace industry
  • 5+ years of experience as an executive-level chief of staff or Office of CIO
  • 5+ years of experience in Program Management, Compliance, Risk Management and Finance
  • 5+ years of experience with the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) goal-setting framework
  • 5+ years working in complex environments and matrix organizations
  • 5+ years of experience in change management and organizational development