How You’ll Make an Impact
The Senior Director of Enterprise Applications Product is a strategic leader responsible for defining the vision and multi-year roadmap for Strata’s internal enterprise application ecosystem. This role partners closely with Strata’s executive team to understand business needs, identify opportunities for digital transformation, and shape a coherent, aligned strategy for how enterprise systems enable our people, processes, and customers.
This role is the upstream, product-focused counterpart to the Director of Enterprise Applications, who manages delivery, configuration, and operational support. Together, these roles ensure Strata’s enterprise systems are modern, scalable, and continuously delivering value. Key responsibilities of this role include:
Strategic Leadership & Roadmap Ownership
- Develop and maintain Strata’s enterprise applications strategy and multi-year roadmap.
- Define how enterprise systems will support key company priorities, including:
- Scaling revenue operations
- Enhancing employee experience
- Strengthening financial forecasting and analytics
- Streamlining customer-facing operations
- Enabling Strata’s AI strategy
- Identify modernization opportunities and lead planning for system upgrades, consolidations, or new implementations.
- Ensure the roadmap aligns with Strata’s broader corporate strategy, including growth, operational efficiency, and customer experience.
Executive & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Build trusted partnerships with leaders across Finance, HR, Sales, Customer Success, Operations, and Product/Engineering.
- Run structured discovery with executives to uncover pain points and opportunities for process or technology improvements.
- Serve as the Voice of the Business to ensure product decisions reflect Strata’s priorities and operating model.
- Present roadmap proposals, tradeoffs, and business cases to executive leadership.
Product Management & Portfolio Governance
- Own intake, evaluation, and prioritization of enterprise application initiatives.
- Break down strategic needs into epics, business cases, and high-level requirements.
- Evaluate initiatives using data-driven frameworks (ROI, cost modeling, risk, dependency analysis).
- Define KPIs and success criteria for each roadmap item, ensuring outcomes are measurable.
- Govern the portfolio to maintain alignment across business units and prevent fragmentation.
Lead Digital-First Transformation Initiatives
- Drive initiatives that increase automation, elevate data quality, improve workflow efficiency, and create self-service experiences for Strata employees.
- Champion AI- and automation-enabled process redesign where appropriate.
- Ensure new capabilities deliver tangible improvements to efficiency, accuracy, speed, or employee experience.
Collaboration with Delivery & Execution
- Partner closely with the Director of Enterprise Applications to ensure roadmap items are translated effectively into execution plans.
- Provide business context and prioritization guidance throughout delivery.
- Support feasibility assessments and participate in milestone reviews, ensuring execution aligns to intended business benefits.
- Maintain a constructive, collaborative partnership model between product and delivery.
Vendor, Platform & Architecture Strategy
- Provide strategic input into vendor selection, contract renewals, capability evaluations, and lifecycle planning.
- Maintain a portfolio-level view of system dependencies, integrations, and long-term sustainability.
What We’re Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise applications, product management, digital transformation, or business systems.
- Proven success leading cross-functional strategic initiatives with executive visibility.
- Strong understanding of ERP, CRM, HRIS, and revenue operations platforms, and how they enable business processes.
- Familiarity with key Strata systems (Salesforce, NetSuite) is a plus.
- Ability to translate business needs into clear, actionable roadmaps.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, including evaluating value, cost, risk, and impact.
- Deep understanding of digital workflows, automation opportunities, data flows, and system integrations.
- Executive presence with a collaborative, relationship-focused leadership style.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and simplifying complex problems.
- Prioritizes standardization, digital-first solutions, and delivering measurable value.
Estimated Salary Range: $180,000-205,000
Actual salary will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, skill set and level of experience. This salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Strata also provides discretionary variable pay programs based on role. In addition, Strata provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits, health and welfare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, life and accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits.
Find out more about Strata benefits here.
How we work:
The preferred location for this role is in Chicago, IL or St. Louis, MO. We value our people spending time together and have campuses hosting in-person events located in both cities. We are truly a hybrid environment with all team members experiencing the flexibility to work from home.
Thinking about applying?
Research shows that women and underrepresented groups tend to apply to jobs only when they check every box on a job posting. If you’re currently reading this and hesitating to click “Apply” for that reason, we encourage you to go for it! A true passion and excitement for making an impact is just as important as work experience.
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Here @ Strata…
Our culture is driven by our people solving problems together. We embrace learning, collaboration, and continuous career growth. Together, we lift our customers, our products, our company, and our community.
We believe that each of our team member’s unique perspectives and experiences is what drives innovation and positive change. Our individual differences are what make us a more forward-thinking organization. We foster a culture of inclusion, equity and belonging, regardless of race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
Our Core Values:
While we celebrate what makes each member of our team unique, our core values are what connect us. They set clear expectations for how we approach our work and how each of us can positively influence the experience of our team and our customers.
- We connect with positive intent.
- We are helpful.
- We own it.
- We get better every day.
- We are humble.
