Sr. Director, Enterprise Applications

Accountabilities:

• • Own the enterprise applications strategy and roadmap, defining a multi-year vision across Salesforce, NetSuite, Coupa, HR/HCM platforms, and connected business systems based on evolving business priorities.
  • Lead the quote-to-cash transformation, modernizing processes from opportunity and quoting through order management, billing, and revenue recognition while improving speed, accuracy, and scalability.
  • Own critical business processes, including quote-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, and hire-to-retire, establishing measurable outcomes and continuous improvement priorities.
  • Lead hands-on delivery and execution of implementations, enhancements, integrations, and business system initiatives, making prioritization and trade-off decisions as product owner for core platforms.
  • Drive integration and data quality, ensuring reliable data flows across systems of record and strengthening the accuracy and consistency of business reporting.
  • Identify opportunities for automation and simplification, including the responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools where they can reduce manual work and improve business processes.
  • Establish application architecture and governance standards, covering security, DevOps maturity, technical quality, release governance, incident management, and platform health.
  • Introduce rigorous performance management, defining metrics, dashboards, roadmaps, OKRs, and operating practices that connect technology delivery to measurable business outcomes.
  • Build and lead the enterprise applications organization, including hiring, organizational design, coaching, performance management, career development, and succession planning across technical and functional roles.
  • Develop technical and delivery talent, creating clear roles, career paths, and leadership capabilities across architects, developers, administrators, and business analysts.
  • Partner with executive stakeholders across Finance, Sales, Revenue Operations, HR, and Operations to translate business priorities into scalable application solutions.
  • Manage strategic vendors and technology spend, including platform budgets, software licensing, RFP/RFI processes, contract negotiations, systems integrator relationships, and total cost of ownership.
  • Own key technology partnerships, managing relationships with major platform providers, influencing product roadmaps, navigating contract cycles, and resolving escalated issues.
  • Support technology consolidation and standardization in a multi-entity, acquisition-driven environment while balancing growth, integration, consistency, and operational efficiency.

  Requirements:

  • 12+ years of experience in enterprise technology, enterprise applications, business systems, or a closely related field, including 5+ years leading application platform teams at Director level or above.
  • Extensive Salesforce leadership experience, including demonstrated success scaling Salesforce environments in high-growth organizations and hands-on experience with CPQ and Billing in production.
  • Proven experience leading end-to-end quote-to-cash transformations, from opportunity and quoting through billing and revenue recognition.
  • Broad enterprise applications expertise beyond Salesforce, ideally including NetSuite, Coupa, and HR/HCM platforms such as Workday.
  • Hands-on delivery experience, with a track record of leading implementations, integrations, enhancements, and system improvements rather than managing exclusively from a strategic distance.
  • Strong technical understanding of integrations and data architecture, including APIs, event-driven patterns, cloud data flows, and environments such as Azure or AWS.
  • Experience with automation and emerging technologies, with exposure to AI-enabled business tools and the judgment to apply appropriate governance and human oversight.
  • Proven people leadership experience, including building and managing teams of architects, developers, administrators, analysts, and managers.
  • Experience managing significant technology budgets and vendors, including multi-million-dollar platform investments, software licensing, RFP/RFI processes, contract negotiations, and systems integrators.
  • Experience in multi-entity or post-acquisition environments, with the ability to consolidate systems, standardize processes, and create scalable enterprise architectures.
  • Experience in private equity-backed or high-growth organizations is highly relevant, particularly where technology must support rapid growth while improving operational efficiency.
  • Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated ability to partner effectively with C-suite and senior Finance and go-to-market leaders.
  • Strong strategic and analytical capabilities, combined with a hands-on, execution-oriented approach to turning ambiguous business requirements into scalable systems.
  • Experience in data-intensive, analytics-driven, automotive, financial services, or information services environments is preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline required; an advanced degree or relevant certifications is a plus.

  Benefits:

  • Starting salary: $210,000–$240,000 USD per year for U.S.-based employees.
  • The corresponding Canadian salary range is $200,000–$230,000 CAD per year.
  • Actual compensation may vary based on skills, education, qualifications, experience, performance, business needs, and geographic location.
  • Remote work opportunity in the United States.
  • Senior-level opportunity to shape enterprise technology strategy and transformation across a broad business applications portfolio.
  • Significant exposure to executive stakeholders and cross-functional leadership teams.
  • Opportunity to build and develop a high-performing enterprise applications organization.
  • Ability to influence major technology investments, vendor relationships, automation initiatives, and business transformation programs.
  • Inclusive workplace committed to equal employment opportunities and diverse perspectives.