Senior Director, Strategy & Operations (AI)

Location: Hybrid role based in San Jose, California, or Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Salary: $266,050–$396,000 USD annually, plus a comprehensive benefits package.

Company

hirify.global provides intelligent data infrastructure, unified storage, integrated data services, and cloud solutions supporting traditional workloads and enterprise AI.

What you will do

• Act as the Chief Product Officer’s strategy partner, defining where the portfolio should invest, hold, or exit.
• Analyze market, customer, financial, and product data to identify portfolio gaps, overlaps, white space, and opportunities for revenue and margin growth.
• Shape build, buy, or partner recommendations using cost, ROI, investment, strategic, and time-to-value models.
• Lead the product-side corporate development agenda, including acquisition theses, target landscapes, business cases, and product and technical diligence.
• Lead integration of acquired businesses by merging roadmaps, rationalizing overlapping products and platforms, and tracking synergy realization.
• Build and develop a high-caliber team across product strategy, growth analysis, market intelligence, portfolio planning, strategic initiatives, and integration management.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience across product strategy, corporate strategy, corporate development partnership, and senior operating leadership in enterprise technology.
• Proven success in portfolio strategy, business transformation, and data-driven enterprise investment decisions.
• Experience with acquisition strategy, diligence, integration, and value realization; product-side integration expertise is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of technology business economics, portfolio investment, capital allocation, and growth strategy.
• Technical credibility across data infrastructure, cloud, and AI, with strong executive communication and people leadership skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, or a related field required; MBA preferred.

Nice to have

• Combined experience in top-tier consulting and in-house operating leadership at a scaled technology company.
• MBA.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working environment with in-office and in-person expectations.
• Health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, and various leave options.
• Performance-based incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stock units, subject to regional terms.
• Culture focused on initiative, impact, ownership, collaboration, inclusion, and work-life flexibility.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed only when submitted through the company website.
• Some stages for select roles may use AI tools to support application evaluation and candidate selection, with human decision-making retained.