Senior BizOps & Strategy Leader — Enterprise Growth

Instructure; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership program

Flexible work culture

Generous time off

Job summary

Instructure is seeking a Principal, Business Operations to lead high-impact initiatives spanning strategy, planning, and governance. You will oversee the enterprise initiative portfolio, OKRs, QBRs, and build visibility with dashboards to drive data-informed decisions.

You will mentor the BizOps team and scale the function from reactive to strategic, partnering with executive leadership to set priorities and allocate resources across the company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or business operations at a high-growth SaaS company.
• Proven success leading large-scale cross-functional programs with executive visibility.
• Analytical and structured problem solver who can convert insight into action.
• Highly skilled communicator able to influence at the executive level.
• Track record of building operational systems and governance models at scale.
• Comfortable balancing enterprise strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Strategy & Planning: Own the annual strategy and planning cycle — from long-range vision to yearly investment allocation.
• Drive Strategic Execution: Govern the company’s OKR and business review process to ensure accountability and measurable progress toward strategy.
• Oversee Strategic Initiative Portfolio: Manage cross-functional initiatives that advance Instructure’s strategic priorities; align resources and resolve execution bottlenecks.
• Operationalize Visibility: Build and continuously evolve the enterprise “Strategy Scorecard” and shared dashboards to quantify progress and impact.
• Build Organizational Maturity: Establish consistent systems, processes, and decision-rights frameworks to move the company from reactive to managed to strategic.
• Coach & Influence: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership; lead, mentor, and scale the BizOps team; drive cultural adoption of data-informed, strategy-driven execution.

Skills

Management consulting

Corporate strategy

Business operations

Cross-functional programs

Analytics

Executive communication

Job description

Instructure is seeking a Principal, Business Operations to lead high-impact initiatives spanning strategy, planning, and governance. You will oversee the enterprise initiative portfolio, OKRs, QBRs, and build visibility with dashboards to drive data-informed decisions.

You will mentor the BizOps team and scale the function from reactive to strategic, partnering with executive leadership to set priorities and allocate resources across the company.