Director, Enterprise Applications

TNTP The New Teacher Project; Alabama; Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

TNTP, The New Teacher Project, seeks a Director of Enterprise Applications to own the strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for Workday, aligning work with organizational priorities and delivering sustained value.

This leader will guide a team of delivery experts, oversee the platform lifecycle, and ensure data quality, compliance, and scalable growth in a mission-driven education nonprofit.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; Master's or graduate degree required, or equivalent executive-level experience.
• 3+ years of progressive experience leading enterprise IT strategy, operations, or applications with significant organizational impact.
• Proven success leading delivery across ERP, CRM, or application development portfolios.
• Direct experience implementing, administering, or leading enterprise application portfolios that include Workday Financial Management.
• Preferred: Experience with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and its integration with financial, operational, and reporting processes.
• Experience with software development lifecycle practices and tools such as Jira, Confluence, or GitHub.
• Strong project and program management skills, including familiarity with agile methodologies and change management practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, optimize costs, and make investment recommendations grounded in financial analysis.
• Excellent communication skills with a track record of influencing executives, cross-functional stakeholders, and delivery teams toward shared outcomes.
• Experience operating within governance, portfolio management, or portfolio management frameworks.
• Strong commitment to TNTP's mission.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for Workday, ensuring work is aligned to organizational priorities and delivers sustained value over time.
• Establish and maintain governance and operating expectations, including prioritization, decision-making, and change management.
• Partner with business leaders to define problems, evaluate options, and drive decisions balancing business needs, platform capabilities, and risk.
• Ensure work is evaluated in the context of end-to-end business processes and outcomes.
• Lead prioritization and trade-off decisions, making constraints visible and focusing on highest-value work.
• Lead and develop a team of delivery experts to ensure work is prioritized, delivered effectively, and improved continuously.
• Provide clear direction and decision-making so delivery teams avoid unnecessary arbitrate of trade-offs or implicit risk ownership.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of the platform, including enhancements, releases, and ongoing improvement for reliability and scalability.
• Maintain data quality, auditability, compliance, and alignment with vendor capabilities and constraints.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement using stakeholder feedback and performance data to inform roadmap and investments.

Skills

Project management

Program management

Agile methodologies

Budget management

Executive communication

Change management

Governance frameworks

Workday expertise

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field

Master's degree or executive-level equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

GitHub

Job description

Director, Enterprise Applications Flexible Location

WHO WE ARE

TNTP is the nation's preeminent education nonprofit that brings research, policy, and consulting together to meet the needs and aspirations of young people, families, communities, and the nation. We are educators, researchers, and innovators working to ensure every young person has the chance to reach their full potential, every educator and leader is set up for success, and every community has the resources necessary to connect young people to paths of opportunity.

We work at every level of the PK-12 system, side by side with educators, system leaders, and communities across 41 states and more than 4,000 systems nationwide to reach ambitious goals for student success. Our vision pushes beyond school walls, catalyzing cross-sector collaboration to create pathways for young people to achieve academic, economic, and social mobility. Learn more about us, what we do, and working here.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for Workday, ensuring work is aligned to organizational priorities and delivers sustained value over time.
• Establish and maintain clear governance and operating expectations, including how work is prioritized, how decisions are made, and how changes are managed.
• Partner with business leaders to define problems, evaluate options, and drive decisions, balancing business needs, platform capabilities, and organizational risk.
• Ensure work is evaluated in the context of end-to-end business processes and outcomes, not individual requests or point solutions.
• Lead prioritization and trade‑off decisions, making constraints visible and focusing the organization on the highest‑value work.
• Lead and develop a team of functional and technical delivery experts, ensuring the right work is prioritized, delivered effectively, and continuously improved.
• Provide clear direction and decision‑making, ensuring delivery teams are not required to arbitrate business trade‑offs or assume implicit risk ownership.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of the platform, including enhancements, releases, and ongoing improvement, ensuring it remains reliable, scalable, and fit for purpose.
• Maintain strong platform health and integrity, including data quality, auditability, compliance, and alignment with vendor capabilities and constraints.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, using stakeholder feedback, performance data, and evolving business needs to inform roadmap and investment decisions.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; Master's or graduate degree required, or equivalent executive‑level experience.
• 3+ years of progressive experience leading enterprise IT strategy, operations, or applications with significant organizational impact.
• Proven success leading delivery across ERP, CRM, or application development portfolios.
• Required: Direct experience implementing, administering, or leading enterprise application portfolios that include Workday Financial Management.
• Preferred: Experience with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and its integration with financial, operational, and reporting processes.
• Experience with software development lifecycle practices and tools such as Jira, Confluence, or GitHub.
• Strong project and program management skills, including familiarity with agile methodologies and change management practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, optimize costs, and make investment recommendations grounded in financial analysis.
• Excellent communication skills with a track record of influencing executives, cross‑functional stakeholders, and delivery teams toward shared outcomes.
• Experience operating within governance, portfolio management, or portfolio management frameworks.
• Strong commitment to TNTP's mission.

WHAT WE OFFER

The salary range for this position is $137,920 - $206,880.

New hires can typically expect a starting salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint ($137,920 -$172,400), in alignment with experience, qualifications, and our commitment to equity in compensation.

TNTP also offers a compelling overall Total Rewards package, including competitive mid‑market salaries, generous PTO, and comprehensive benefits, with a range of plans and programs designed to support the physical, mental, and financial wellness of employees and their dependents.

We suggest learning more about our benefits! (Spoiler alert: we’re closed the last two weeks of December).

We also ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation for the interview process.

Position Type: Regular

TNTP is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to maintaining a non‑discriminatory work environment. TNTP does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, arrest record, conviction record, or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy covers all programs, services, policies, and procedures of TNTP, including recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, and administering all personnel actions, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs or terminations.

Applicants for employment with TNTP must have valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S.

TNTP is the nation's preeminent education nonprofit that brings research, policy, and consulting together to meaningfully transform America’s public education system to meet the expectations of young people, families, communities, and the nation. We are educators, researchers, and innovators who know that a strong academic foundation is essential to improve children’s life outcomes. However, even excelling in school doesn’t outweigh the effects of poverty. We work at every level of the PK-12 system, and across sectors, to help schools and other education partners provide opportunities for every student that will prepare them for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow, enabling them to thrive in an increasingly dynamic world.

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