Associate Vice President, Digital Operations

Safelite; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Safelite is seeking an AVP, Digital Operations to connect strategy to execution across a broad digital portfolio. You will own the operating model, governance, and tracking of value realization while partnering with Product, Finance, Analytics, and business leaders.

You will lead across portfolio planning, prioritization, and governance, driving AI-enabled transformation and faster decision-making in a fast-moving environment. This role emphasizes scale and enterprise impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of leadership experience in Product Ops, Business Ops, Strategic Planning, Portfolio Management, or related function.
• Experience scaling operational capabilities within product-led, technology-forward organizations.
• Experience linking investments and product portfolios to measurable business outcomes.
• Ability to create planning frameworks, operating rhythms, governance structures to improve execution.
• Strong analytical capabilities and data-driven decision making.
• Experience driving AI adoption or digital transformation initiatives.
• Exceptional communication and executive influence skills.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and build cross-stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own the operating model that connects strategy, investment, and execution across our Digital organization.
• Establish portfolio management disciplines for transparency, accountability, and predictability.
• Build governance, planning, goal-setting, and performance management systems.
• Create visibility into priorities, investments, outcomes, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Lead portfolio planning across multiple product domains and investment horizons.
• Develop prioritization frameworks to focus resources on high-value opportunities.
• Balance near-term performance with long-term transformation goals.
• Drive speed, agility, and execution by removing bottlenecks and simplifying processes.
• Champion AI usage across the product lifecycle and enable AI-enabled operating models.

Skills

Leadership

Portfolio mgmt

AI adoption

Data-driven decisions

Strategic planning

Executive influence

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Job description

Does this position interest you?

The companies winning in the next decade won't simply have better technology. They'll have better operating systems.

At Safelite, we're building an AI‑native digital organization designed to move faster, learn faster, and deliver measurable business value at scale. We're looking for a transformational leader to help architect the operating model that powers that future.

As AVP (Associate Vice President), Digital Operations, you will build and evolve the systems, rhythms, and processes that connect strategy to execution across our digital portfolio.

This role reports directly to the Senior Vice President, Digital and sits at the center of one of the most significant digital transformations underway within the company.

Build the Operating System for Digital

• Own the operating model that connects strategy, investment, and execution across our Digital organization.
• Establish the portfolio management disciplines that create transparency, accountability, and predictability.
• Build the governance, planning, goal‑setting, and performance management systems that allow teams to scale effectively.
• Create clear visibility into priorities, investments, business outcomes, risks, and delivery commitments.

Connect Work to Business Value

• Build the framework that directly links digital initiatives to financial and business outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Finance, Analytics, and business leaders to define, validate, and measure value realization.
• Create a clear line of sight from strategic investments to growth, efficiency, customer outcomes, and enterprise performance.
• Help leadership make better decisions through data, insight, and transparency.

Drive Portfolio Strategy and Prioritization

• Lead portfolio planning across multiple product domains and investment horizons.
• Develop prioritization frameworks that ensure resources are focused on the highest‑value opportunities.
• Balance near‑term performance needs with long‑term innovation and transformation goals.
• Guide trade‑off decisions in a fast‑moving environment where priorities evolve rapidly.

Accelerate Speed, Agility, and Execution

• Create operating rhythms that enable teams to move with greater speed and confidence.
• Improve how Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and Business teams work together to deliver results.
• Identify bottlenecks, eliminate unnecessary complexity, and improve organizational effectiveness.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning, delivery, and decision‑making processes.

Lead AI‑Native Ways of Working

• Champion the use of AI throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develop frameworks, tools, workflows, and practices that help teams leverage AI to improve speed, quality, and outcomes.
• Partner with leaders across Digital to create an AI‑enabled operating model that becomes a competitive advantage.
• Help shape how a modern enterprise integrates AI into daily work and strategic execution.

We're seeking a builder who can create clarity, focus, and momentum at scale.

You know how high‑performing product organizations operate because you've built them.

You understand that operating models aren't about process—they're about enabling faster decisions, better prioritization, and stronger business outcomes.

You are equally comfortable discussing portfolio economics, organizational design, AI transformation, operating cadence, and business strategy.

Most importantly, you know how to take an organization from where it is today to where it needs to be tomorrow.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of leadership experience in Product Operations, Business Operations, Strategic Planning, Portfolio Management, or a related function.
• Proven success building and scaling operational capabilities within product‑led, technology‑forward organizations.
• Experience connecting investment decisions and product portfolios to measurable business and financial outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to create planning frameworks, operating rhythms, prioritization models, and governance structures that improve execution.
• Strong analytical capabilities and experience using data to influence strategy and decision‑making.
• Experience driving AI adoption, modern ways of working, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Exceptional communication and executive influence skills.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building Product Operations, Portfolio Management, Digital Operations, or Transformation functions from the ground up.
• Experience supporting large‑scale digital product organizations.
• Understanding of modern product operating models, analytics platforms, and planning frameworks.
• Experience working across Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Operations teams.
• Experience supporting enterprise AI transformation initiatives.
• We work with our European partners quite often, so Central or Eastern time zones are preferred.

The Leaders Who Excel In This Role Are

• Builders who love creating new capabilities at scale.
• Strategic operators who connect execution to business outcomes.
• Systems thinkers who can simplify complexity.
• Innovators who use AI and technology to improve how work gets done.
• Leaders who bring structure to ambiguity.
• Change agents who challenge conventional ways of operating.
• Executives who believe speed, learning, and adaptability are competitive advantages.

Why Join Safelite?

This is a rare opportunity to design the operating system behind a modern, AI‑native digital organization.

You’ll influence how investment decisions get made, how teams operate, how value is measured, and how AI becomes embedded across the enterprise.

You’ll help build the foundation for the next chapter of Safelite’s growth—creating the structures, processes, and capabilities that allow innovation to move faster and scale further.

If you’re energized by building systems that enable transformation, we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by an employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to perform other related duties as assigned to ensure workload coverage. This job description does NOT constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the organizational needs and requirements of the job change.

This position description is not all inclusive for every aspect of this role. Reasonable accommodations will be made for individuals covered by ADA, ADEA, FMLA and other laws and regulations in accordance with their requirements. Physical and mental demands are not, and should not be construed to be job qualification standards, but are illustrated to help the employer, employee and/or applicant identify tasks where reasonable accommodations may need to be made when an otherwise qualified person is unable to perform the job’s essential duties because of an ADA disability.

Other qualifications may be required to ensure employment eligibility in accordance with local laws, regulations and with Safelite Group, Inc. policies and practices.

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Benefit amounts are estimates only. Actual values will depend on benefit elections during enrollment.