Director, Enterprise Applications — Lead Workday Strategy

TNTP The New Teacher Project; Alabama; On-site; 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

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.