Sr. Director, Product Strategy & Operations

The Opportunity

Firefly Foundry is seeking a strategic, results-oriented leader to serve as Head of Product Strategy & Business Operations. This role sits at the center of our product organization, ensuring operational excellence at scale, shaping long-term strategy, and driving portfolio performance. 

You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Executive Leadership to translate vision into measurable outcomes. This is a highly visible role requiring structural thinking, strong financial acumen, and the ability to influence at the executive level. 

What you'll do

Translate Strategy into measurable outcomes 

• Convert long-term strategy into actionable operating plans, investment priorities, and performance targets. 

• Lead annual planning, quarterly prioritization, and long-range strategic planning processes. 

• Ensure every major initiative has clear business cases, defined ROI, and measurable success criteria. 

• Drive disciplined tradeoff decisions across the portfolio based on impact, capacity, and financial return. 

Own Portfolio Performance & Capital Allocation 

• Oversee portfolio-level margin, cost structure, ROI, and investment efficiency. 

• Partner with Finance to manage budgeting, forecasting, and resource planning. 

• Implement capital allocation frameworks that optimize return on product investments. 

• Establish leading and lagging indicators that connect execution to financial outcomes. 

• Lead quarterly business reviews with clear performance narratives and corrective actions. 

Design and implement the Operating Model 

• Build and continuously improve the Firefly Foundry operating rhythm (OKRs, governance forums, intake processes, roadmap reviews). 

• Define decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability mechanisms. 

• Standardize planning artifacts, KPI dashboards, and reporting structures. 

• Increase transparency and predictability across product development cycles. 

• Identify operational inefficiencies and implement process improvements to improve velocity and output quality. 

Drive Cross-Functional Execution Excellence 

• Align Product, Engineering, Design, and GTM around shared objectives and measurable outcomes. 

• Ensure roadmap commitments are realistic, capacity-aligned, and financially justified. 

• Improve cross-functional handoffs and reduce execution friction. 

• Establish performance management mechanisms that surface risks early and enable course correction. 

Lead with Accountability 

• Build and lead a high-performing product strategy and business operations team. 

• Set clear performance expectations and measurable objectives for the team. 

• Foster a culture of data-driven decision-making, ownership, and continuous improvement.<