Senior Director- Program Execution, Project Management and GTM Readiness

Sage; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) retirement match

32 days paid time off

18 weeks parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness rewards program

Career development resources

Job summary

Sage is seeking a Senior Director to lead the global GTM transformation portfolio, partnering with the VP and senior leaders to translate priorities into an enterprise execution plan. You will guide cross-functional programs from business case through delivery, adoption, and benefits realization, driving measurable growth and improved GTM effectiveness.

Hybrid role based on-site three days per week in the United States, Atlanta and Austin regions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise program execution, portfolio management, or transformation leadership.
• Experience leading multi-layered teams for complex delivery and governance.
• Proven track record owning large cross-functional transformation portfolios.
• Ability to act as senior proxy for VP in high-stakes forums.
• Strong GTM acumen linking execution to revenue growth.
• Proven ability to make strategic trade-offs across priorities.
• Experience building governance frameworks and executive reporting.
• Exceptional executive communication and change leadership.
• Fluency in AI-enabled ways of working in portfolio management.

Responsibilities

• Own the global GTM transformation execution portfolio.
• Lead portfolio governance, prioritization, and resource allocation.
• Represent the VP in governance meetings and executive updates.
• Scale a high-performing global execution team.
• Set delivery standards and operating model for GTM transformation.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of large, complex global GTM programs.
• Manage executive risk, dependencies, and readiness.
• Modernize transformation with AI-enabled planning and reporting.

Skills

Enterprise program execution

Portfolio management

GTM transformation

Executive stakeholder management

AI-enabled strategy

Job description

The Sr. Director, Program Execution, Project Management and GTM Readiness will provide senior leadership for Sage’s global GTM transformation portfolio, establishing the strategy, governance, prioritization, and operating model needed to deliver large-scale, cross-functional programs that drive growth and improve GTM effectiveness. This role will translate transformation priorities into an enterprise-wide execution portfolio and lead a team responsible for taking complex programs from strategy and business case through delivery, adoption, benefits realization, and continuous improvement.

The Senior Director will serve as a key executive partner to the VP and work closely with senior leaders across Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Revenue Operations, IT, Finance, Customer Support, and regional teams to align priorities, navigate enterprise-level trade-offs, and ensure initiatives deliver measurable business impact. The role will also establish the delivery standards, capabilities, governance, and executive visibility needed to scale GTM transformation globally.

This is a Hybrid role based on-site 3 days per week.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Own the global GTM transformation execution portfolio
  • Set the strategic execution approach for major GTM transformation initiatives, ensuring programs are prioritized, sequenced, resourced, governed, and delivered in alignment with Sage’s growth ambitions and executive priorities.
• Lead enterprise-level portfolio governance and prioritization
  • Own the intake, prioritization, escalation, and decision-making framework for large cross-functional GTM initiatives, including decisions on portfolio trade-offs, sequencing, resource allocation, dependency management, risk, and readiness.
• Act as delegated executive lead for the VP in senior stakeholder forums
  • Represent the VP in high-level meetings, governance conversations, executive updates, and cross-functional decision forums, providing strategic direction, resolving ambiguity, and ensuring stakeholder alignment across global and regional leadership teams.
• Lead and scale a high-performing global execution team
  • Build, lead, and develop a team accountable for program execution, portfolio management, GTM readiness, governance, reporting, and operational delivery. Ensure the team has the capability, clarity, capacity, and leadership discipline required to deliver a complex global transformation portfolio.
• Set the enterprise delivery standards and operating model for GTM transformation
  • Define and continuously improve the standards, governance, delivery frameworks, rhythm of business, tooling, reporting, performance measures, and operating mechanisms that enable consistent, repeatable execution at scale
• Drive end-to-end delivery of large, complex global GTM programs
  • Provide senior oversight across the full lifecycle of major GTM transformation programs, from business case and planning through execution, readiness, adoption, measurement, and benefits realization. Ensure major initiatives are delivered with clear accountability, integrated change management, and measurable business outcomes.
• Own executive risk management, dependency resolution, and transformation readiness
  • Anticipate and resolve enterprise-level risks, cross-functional dependencies, stakeholder conflicts, and readiness gaps that could impact delivery, adoption, customer outcomes, colleague experience, or revenue execution.
• Modernize transformation execution through AI-enabled ways of working
  • Embed AI-enabled planning, portfolio reporting, decision support, workflow automation, and insight generation across the GTM transformation operating model to improve speed, transparency, scalability, and business impact

Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years' experience in enterprise program execution, portfolio management, transformation leadership, business operations, or GTM effectiveness within a large, matrixed, global organization.
• Proven experience leading and scaling multi-layered teams responsible for complex program delivery, portfolio governance, readiness, and operational execution.
• Demonstrated success owning large, cross-functional transformation portfolios with enterprise-level impact across commercial, customer, operational, and technology stakeholders.
• Ability to operate as a senior proxy or delegated executive lead for a VP or equivalent leader in high-stakes stakeholder forums, governance discussions, escalations, and decision-making conversations.
• Strong commercial and GTM acumen, with the ability to connect transformation execution to revenue growth, customer outcomes, operational effectiveness, and colleague readiness.
• Proven ability to make and influence strategic trade-off decisions across competing priorities, resources, timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder needs.
• Deep experience building governance frameworks, operating rhythms, executive reporting mechanisms, delivery standards, and performance measures for complex transformation portfolios.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to simplify complexity, shape senior-level narratives, influence without direct authority, and drive alignment across global and regional leaders.
• Proven change leadership capability, including readiness planning, adoption management, stakeholder engagement, communication strategy, and benefits realization.
• Fluency in AI-enabled ways of working, with proven ability to apply AI to portfolio management, reporting, workflow efficiency, insight generation, and scalable execution.

Perks? We have plenty.

• Competitive salaries that landed us top 5% of similar sized companies (according to Comparably)
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement match (100% matching up to 4%)
• 32 days paid time off (21 personal days, 10 national holidays, 1 floating holiday)
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for birth, adoption or surrogacy offered 1 year after start date
• 5 days paid yearly to volunteer (through Sage Foundation)
• $5,250 tuition reimbursement per calendar year starting 6 months after hire date
• Sage Wellness Rewards Program ($600 wellness credit and $360 fitness reimbursement annually)
• Library of on demand career development options and ongoing training offerings

Dig deeper about who we are:

• Who is Sage: https://www.sage.com/en-us/company/about-sage/
• Life at Sage: https://www.sage.com/en-us/company/careers/
• Our Values & Behaviors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vt5JXf-Gwno&feature=youtu.be
• How we make a difference: https://www.sage.com/en-us/company/sage-foundation/
• Sage Business Cloud - SaaS for Every Business: https://www.sage.com/en-us/products/

United States

Atlanta;Austin

Hybrid

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Senior Director- Program Execution, Project Management and GTM Readiness

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