Senior Director, Strategy & Transformation...

Iron Mountain, Inc.
Boston, United States of America
8 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 301K

Job location

Boston, United States of America

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Software as a Service
Systems Development Life Cycle
Release Management
Software Engineering
Enterprise Software Applications
Software Version Control
Devsecops

Job description

The Senior Director, Strategy, Transformation & Enablement is a senior leadership role within the Chief Product & Technology organization. This leader will help shape platform and technology strategy, lead critical transformation initiatives, and establish the execution discipline needed to scale the organization effectively.

Working closely with product and engineering leadership, this role will co-lead platform strategy, drive technology strategy, oversee complex transformation programs such as migrations and technology rationalization, and manage a team of program managers delivering strategic initiatives. The role also leads SDLC process improvement and transformation, including the adoption of AI tools across engineering functions.

Key responsibilities** **1. Platform product strategy

  • Partner with product leaders to help define and refine the IRM SaaS platform product strategy

  • Translate strategic priorities into executable roadmaps and cross-functional initiatives

  • Support prioritization decisions across platform capabilities, modernization efforts, and growth initiatives

  • Help ensure alignment across product, engineering, architecture, and delivery teams

  1. Technology strategy
  • Partner with the platform engineering leader to shape technology strategy

  • Drive strategic planning around architecture evolution, platform modernization, and engineering transformation

  • Help identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, scalability, and technical efficiency

  • Support long-range planning for technology investments and rationalization

  1. Transformation leadership
  • Lead enterprise-scale transformation initiatives across the product and technology organization

  • Drive migration programs, technology rationalization efforts, and other strategic change initiatives

  • Establish clear governance, milestones, risk management, and executive reporting for transformation work

  • Ensure initiatives are delivered with strong accountability and cross-functional coordination

  • Improve consistency in how large initiatives are planned, tracked, escalated, and delivered

  • Drive organizational rigor across interdependencies, milestones, and change management

  1. Release Management and Platform Operations
  • Oversee platform release trains, release governance, and cross-functional release readiness across the organization

  • Drive discipline around SaaS platform upgrades, version management, deployment planning, and upgrade execution to ensure predictable, high-quality releases

  • Partner across product, engineering, DevSecOps, and support teams to improve release coordination, operational readiness, and post-release stability

  • Establish standard release processes, upgrade playbooks, and governance mechanisms to reduce risk and improve delivery consistency

  1. SDLC oversight and transformation
  • Oversee SDLC processes across the product and technology organization

  • Drive SDLC transformation to improve quality, speed, productivity, and engineering discipline

  • Champion adoption of AI tools across software development workflows, including design, coding, testing, documentation, and delivery

  • Establish best practices, governance, and measurement around AI-enabled engineering productivity

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in senior leadership positions including strategy, transformation, product operations, engineering operations, PMO, or related leadership roles

  • Strong experience working in product and technology organizations, preferably in SaaS, enterprise software, or platform environments

  • Proven experience leading large-scale transformation programs, including migrations, modernization, or technology rationalization initiatives

  • Strong understanding of platform strategy, technology strategy, and software development lifecycle processes

  • Experience driving SDLC transformation, engineering process improvement, or developer productivity initiatives

  • Strong knowledge of AI tools used across software development workflows and a strong point of view on their operational adoption

  • Experience building enablement or learning programs for internal delivery teams, Professional Services teams, or partner ecosystems

  • Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational leadership skills

  • Proven ability to combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution

About the company

Iron Mountain (Boston, MA) At Iron Mountain we know that work, when done well, makes a positive impact for our customers, our employees, and our planet. That's why we need smart, committed people to join us. Whether you're looking to start your career or make a change, talk to us and see how you can elevate the power of your work at Iron Mountain. We provide expert, sustainable solutions in records and information management, digital transformation services, data centers, asset lifecycle management, and fine art storage, handling, and logistics. We proudly partner every day with our 225,000 customers around the world to preserve their invaluable artifacts, extract more from their inventory, and protect their data privacy in innovative and socially responsible ways. Are you curious about being part of our growth stor y while evolving your skills in a culture that will welcome your unique contributions? If so, let's start the conversation. About Iron Mountain Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) is a global leader in storage and information management, trusted by 95% of the Fortune 1000. While we bring a 70-year legacy in physical records management, we are actively transforming into a digital-first, platform-led organization to meet the evolving needs of enterprises in an increasingly complex data landscape., Iron Mountain is a global leader in storage and information management services trusted by more than 225,000 organizations in 60 countries. We safeguard billions of our customers' assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and invaluable cultural and historic artifacts. Take a look at our history here. Iron Mountain helps lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable digital and sustainable solutions, whether in information management, digital transformation, secure storage and destruction, data center operations, cloud services, or art storage and logistics. Please see our Values and Code of Ethics for a look at our principles and aspirations in elevating the power of our work together.

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