Senior Director, Strategy & Business Development

Thanks for your interest in Success Academy! Running a large, fast-growing, and high-performing network of public charter schools takes a village - families, children, teachers, staff and faculty, advocates, and supporters alike. We are growing fast in New York and expanding to Florida, and we would love to welcome you to our community! We work tirelessly every day to ensure children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status. When you join SA, you play a part in giving every student who walks through our doors a fair shot at reaching his or her potential.Department Strategy & Business Development (BD) helps author and orchestrate the enterprise strategy and provides the analytical capabilities required to drive it forward. The team owns the strategic planning process, manages the organization's market intelligence capability, leads key cross-functional initiatives, and runs Business Development and Partnerships. Working end-to-end across all departments, Strategy & BD is positioned to help Success Academy deliver its most ambitious goals. The Opportunity We are seeking an experienced Strategy and Business Development leader to serve as a strategic architect and effective operator. This role will tackle the organization’s most complex and highest-priority challenges, moving between enterprise-level strategy and tactical program execution. With an enterprise-wide scope, you will play a leading role in building the strategic capabilities, systems, and processes that will enable Success Academy to deliver on its ambition to scale world-class schools and reimagine public education.   The ideal candidate combines rigorous strategic thinking, strong analytical horsepower, and exceptional communication skills: someone who can take a complex problem, develop a data-driven solution, and then effectively implement it across the organization, influencing others to drive change. To be effective in this role, you will need to be able to navigate ambiguity, solve problems like an owner, and move complex work forward quickly.   Key Responsibilities Shape the enterprise agenda. Serve as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders—helping shape, pressure-test, and drive the strategic priorities of the network. Build systematic solutions. Develop the strategic operating cadences the network runs on. Establish and own strategic planning processes and structures that will enable the organization to operate with speed as it scales. Solve the hardest cross-functional problems. Lead structured problem-solving on the network's most consequential challenges. Bring structure to ambiguous issues, drive the analysis, and ensure successful execution and sustainment. Deliver business insights and decision support. Proactively surface trends and opportunities, arming executive leadership with actionable insights. Operationalize market and competitive intelligence. Contextualize the external landscape in ...