Senior Director, R&D Venture Delivery

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Oversee cross-functional initiatives across early-stage ventures, collaborating with engineering, data science, commercial, legal, privacy, compliance, and operations teams.

• Organize and facilitate client working sessions, discovery discussions, pilot evaluations, and executive touchpoints to foster trust, alignment, and progress.

• Convert venture strategy, customer insights, and vision into actionable priorities, roadmaps, operating plans, and measurable results.

• Clarify customer challenges, validate assumptions, define MVPs, develop discovery plans, and ensure teams remain focused on user, customer, and business value.

• Design and implement streamlined venture operating systems, including planning rhythms, build evaluations, milestone tracking, launch preparedness, risk assessments, and executive reporting.

• Establish clarity in uncertain situations by identifying the right questions, structuring decisions, and assisting teams in advancing without unnecessary processes.

• Support teams in adopting contemporary working methods, such as customer discovery, rapid learning loops, agile delivery, disciplined experimentation, prototyping, and continuous enhancement.

• Identify risks, dependencies, resource limitations, and ambiguous ownership early on, then facilitate practical solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Possess 10 or more years of experience leading complex projects in product-led, technology-driven, consulting, innovation, or venture-building settings.

• Have served as a product operations leader, product strategy head, chief of staff, strategic program manager, venture operator, business operations leader, or senior cross-functional execution manager.

• Have managed client-facing workstreams and can effectively translate client feedback into product, pilot, and go-to-market strategies.

• Demonstrate strong expertise in discovery, strategy, design tradeoffs, prioritization, MVP definition, launch readiness, experimentation, and success metrics.

• Capable of bringing structure to ambiguity without fostering bureaucracy, smoothly transitioning between strategic and detailed tasks.

• Exhibit executive presence, possess a low ego, and have the ability to influence senior stakeholders without needing to control every decision.

• Strong candidates may also have experience in healthcare, healthcare technology, data, analytics, AI, enterprise software, consulting, or other regulated sectors.

• Have experience supporting zero-to-one or one-to-scale product development.

• Experienced in introducing new tools, AI-driven workflows, automation, prototyping techniques, or knowledge management practices.

• Experienced in collaborating with commercial teams on market validation, customer feedback, launch planning, pricing, packaging, or go-to-market readiness.

• Proven track record of enhancing how teams learn from customers, make product decisions, manage dependencies, communicate, and hold themselves accountable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Incentive eligible

• Comprehensive benefits plan