Executive-Ready Strategy & Execution Lead

NetApp, Inc.; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 228,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Job summary

NetApp, Inc. is seeking a Senior Strategic Execution Lead to drive high-priority initiatives across partner operations and corporate strategy. This senior individual contributor translates leadership priorities into actionable project plans, decision-ready materials, and risk mitigation actions.

You will coordinate across partner, field, and corporate functions, ensuring milestones are met, blockers escalated, and impact is measured with executive-level reporting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in strategic execution, business operations, program management, corporate strategy, partner operations, executive operations, or related enterprise roles.
• Ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives through influence in matrixed organizations.
• Strong project planning discipline, milestone management, risk management, and executive status reporting.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-priority strategic projects, confidential initiatives, and urgent escalations from planning through execution and closeout.
• Create structured project plans with milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and executive inspection moments.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across partner, field, finance, legal, HR, communications, operations, strategy and other teams.
• Produce executive-ready briefs, decision memos, issue narratives, and escalation summaries with clear options and recommended actions.
• Manage dependency maps, issue logs, action plans, and trackers to keep work on schedule.
• Support escalation operating rooms with daily action plans, severity assessments, decision needs, and closure criteria.

Job description

NetApp, Inc. is seeking a Senior Strategic Execution Lead to drive high-priority initiatives across partner operations and corporate strategy. This senior individual contributor translates leadership priorities into actionable project plans, decision-ready materials, and risk mitigation actions.

You will coordinate across partner, field, and corporate functions, ensuring milestones are met, blockers escalated, and impact is measured with executive-level reporting.