As Principal, Business Operations, you will lead high-impact initiatives that cut across functions, shaping how the company sets priorities, allocates resources, and measures progress. You’ll oversee strategic planning, execution governance (OKRs, QBRs, operating rhythm), and the enterprise initiative portfolio. You’ll also mentor and lead BizOps talent, ensuring the function matures from reactive problem-solving to predictive, insight-driven operations.

Lead Enterprise Strategy & Planning: Own the annual strategy and planning cycle — from long-range vision to yearly investment allocation.

Drive Strategic Execution: Govern the company’s OKR and business review process to ensure accountability and measurable progress toward strategy.

Oversee Strategic Initiative Portfolio: Manage cross-functional initiatives that advance Instructure’s strategic priorities; align resources and resolve execution bottlenecks.

Operationalize Visibility: Build and continuously evolve the enterprise “Strategy Scorecard” and shared dashboards to quantify progress and impact.

Build Organizational Maturity: Establish consistent systems, processes, and decision-rights frameworks to move the company from reactive to managed to strategic.

Coach & Influence: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership; lead, mentor, and scale the BizOps team; drive cultural adoption of data-informed, strategy-driven execution.

What you will need to know/have:

5+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or business operations at a high-growth SaaS company.

Proven success leading large-scale cross-functional programs with executive visibility.

Analytical and structured problem solver who can convert insight into action.

Highly skilled communicator able to influence at the executive level.

Principal, Business Operations and Strategy

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Benefits

Company

Instructure

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