Director of Resource Strategy & Capacity

Orchestra; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Orchestra seeks a Director, Resource Management to lead a newly created enterprise function across the organization. You will partner with HR, Finance, Operations, and vertical leaders to drive a data-driven approach to workforce planning, talent deployment, and capacity management.

Success requires delivering scalable processes, governance, and continuous improvement while aligning talent to client work and growth opportunities. Strong influence across stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in resource management, workforce planning, or related roles.
• Experience in complex, matrixed environments.
• Strong staffing, utilization, forecasting, and profitability knowledge.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and change leadership skills.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, not direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the resource management function across the organization.
• Forecast staffing needs and align talent supply with client demand.
• Balance full-time, freelance, and contract talent for profitability.
• Provide staffing recommendations and act as escalation point for challenges.
• Develop analytics on utilization, forecasting, and capacity management.

Skills

Resource management

Workforce planning

Operations

Talent deployment

Stakeholder influence

Change leadership

Communication

Tools

Kantata

Job description

Orchestra seeks a Director, Resource Management to lead a newly created enterprise function across the organization. You will partner with HR, Finance, Operations, and vertical leaders to drive a data-driven approach to workforce planning, talent deployment, and capacity management.

Success requires delivering scalable processes, governance, and continuous improvement while aligning talent to client work and growth opportunities. Strong influence across stakeholders is essential.