Senior Manager, Provider Operations Strategy & Programs

Who We’re Looking For

Someone with deep operational and program management experience who can operate effectively without positional authority. You’re comfortable with ambiguity, naturally connect cross-functional work, and know how to balance documentation with flexibility. You move fast, you’re data-informed, and you ship. Equally important: you understand the operational reality well enough that your plans are grounded and executable, not theoretical. You’re trusted with ambiguous, high-stakes problems and expect to exercise business judgment on trade-offs that affect fill rate, cost, and team capability.

On a Regular Basis, You Will

Partner with the Sr. Director to define and prioritize quarterly initiatives that span multiple pillars or require cross-functional coordination, developing comprehensive program briefs with scope, stakeholders, timeline, resource needs, success metrics, and dependencies
Drive programs from initiation to close-out, tracking progress against milestones, escalating blockers early, and measuring outcomes—both quantitative (fill rate impact, cost savings, cycle time) and qualitative (process improvement, team alignment)
Work with pillar leaders to document how core functions actually operate and design systems and tooling that scale processes without scaling headcount — playbooks, checklists, SLAs, decision trees that a new team member can execute on day one
Audit for gaps, redundancies, and hand-off friction; recommend changes and track implementation
Act as the connective lens across Quality of Service, Staffing, Experience, Growth, Analytics, Strategy & Programs — collecting signals from each pillar and flagging conflicts or opportunities early
Manage relationships between Provider Ops and cross-functional partners (Sales, Product, Support), proactively communicating constraints and capacity
Run quarterly planning sessions with pillar leaders to align on roadmap and surface risks and dependencies
Maintain a forward-looking view of what’s coming in the next 8 weeks that could surprise the business, including market shifts and product changes that affect provider strategy
Manage project managers, developing their scope and mentoring them into more complex projects
Evaluate automation and AI tools with pillar leaders, knowing where technology truly changes the economics versus where it adds unnecessary complexity

You’ll Thrive in This Role If

You’ve successfully managed 3+ concurrent programs across multiple teams without formal authority over those teams; you’re comfortable with ambiguity and track dependencies naturally
You’ve built or substantially improved a repeatable process that scaled with the business; you understand how to balance documentation with flexibility and standardization with local adaptation
You operate effectively without positional authority and can present trade-offs to senior leadership, influencing decisions even when stakeholders disagree
You’re data fluent with the ability to self-serve data to identify problems, track progress, and make trade-off calls
You ship — you set realistic plans, track against them, course-correct when needed, and avoid both paralysis by analysis and skipping necessary planning
You have experience at a high-growth company, especially in supply-side, logistics, or marketplace operations where you’ve seen how ops scales
You’ve managed one or more direct reports and developed them into independent operators
You communicate clearly and present ideas to senior leadership without jargon; clear communication signals you actually understand something
You’re comfortable with ambiguity and have made progress in environments where the mandate was clear but the path wasn’t

Qualifications

6+ years of experience in operations, business operations, or program management—or equivalent leadership impact in a relevant domain
Demonstrated track record of managing cross-functional work without positional authority
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Comfort with ambiguity and high-stakes decision-making with incomplete information

Nice to Have

Supply-side ops, provider/marketplace operations, or recruiting/staffing supply chain experience
Work in regulated industries or organizations with complex external stakeholder management (e.g., gig economy, healthcare staffing, field services)
Hands-on experience evaluating and implementing new tools or automation technologies
Facilitation or workshop design skills — you’ve led strategic planning sessions or cross-team retrospectives