Associate Director of Strategic Programs

Responsibilities

• Value Creation & Strategic Projects Leadership
• Partner with business leaders to scope, prioritize, and execution of A-LIGN’s strategic growth initiatives
• Establish program governance and operating cadence, including steering committee structure, decision rights, and escalation paths
• Build clear roadmaps, milestones, KPIs, and dashboards that translate strategy into measurable execution
• Work directly with workstream leaders to track initiative progress and remove blockers
• Drive accountability for outcomes across initiative owners, identifying risks and dependencies early and proactively mitigating issues
• AI Transformation & Adoption
• Partner with business leaders across the organization to identify opportunities to leverage AI, uncover pain points, and improve productivity, efficiency, and business outcomes
• Conduct discovery sessions with teams to understand workflows, evaluate AI use cases, and recommend practical solutions to business challenges
• Support the coordination and execution of AI initiatives across business units, helping drive alignment, visibility, and adoption
• Capture, document, and promote AI best practices, success stories, and lessons learned through presentations, training materials, videos, and other internal communications
• Collaborate with stakeholders to pilot, implement, and scale AI-enabled solutions that deliver measurable value to the organization
• Strategic Initiatives & Transformation
• Lead 0-to-1 builds and scaling initiatives end-to-end, including new lines of business, capability builds, and new operating processes or playbooks
• Drive transformations that require sustained cross-functional execution and analytical depth
• Apply structured problem-solving to ambiguous, cross-functional challenges and translate findings into actionable plans
• Build the analytical foundation for high-stakes decisions, including business cases, scenario modeling, and benefits realization
• Transition new operating processes and playbooks to functional ownership once embedded
• Organizational Effectiveness & Executive Partnership
• Prepare Executive-level updates and progress reporting for leadership review
• Bridge communication across functions, ensuring strategy is understood and operationalized at every level
• Implement and operate an OKR or equivalent goal-setting framework that connects company priorities to functional execution
• Design and run effective leadership meeting cadences, including strategy reviews, business reviews, and planning sessions
• Support the design and refinement of organizational structures aligned to A-LIGN's growth ambition
• Executive Reporting & Operating Cadences
• Build and maintain a metrics-led reporting framework for the Board of Directors
• Prepare board materials, including narrative, financial framing, and initiative-level updates against committed milestones
• Drive the annual strategic planning process and link it to budget, hiring, and execution plans
• Establish decision-making frameworks that enable appropriate delegation and autonomy across the leadership team
• M&A Integration Support (optional, subject to deal activity)
• Partner with deal leadership on integration planning, including Day 1 readiness and 100-day plans
• Lead or co-lead the integration PMO, ensuring critical milestones, synergy targets, and stakeholder alignment are achieved
• Drive functional integration across technology, operations, commercial, and people workstreams
• Build repeatable integration playbooks for future transactions