
Director, Strategy & Operations
FullTimeUSD 193,600 – 263,800 per yearbusiness-operationsoperationsfull-timeprocess-improvementremote

Director, Strategy & Operations

Director, Strategy & Operations
Wrapbook
About Us:
Wrapbook is a smart, intuitive platform that makes production payroll and accounting easier, faster, and more secure. We provide a unified payroll platform that seamlessly connects your entire team—production, accounting, cast, and crew—all in one place. Wrapbook empowers production teams to manage projects, pay cast and crew, track expenses, and generate data-driven insights, while enabling workers to manage timecards, track pay, and onboard to new projects from any device. Wrapbook brings clarity and dependability to production payroll, while increasing the productivity of your whole team.
Trusted by companies of all sizes, Wrapbook powers payroll for some of the industry's top production companies, including
Smuggler
- Design and own the annual planning process: timeline, stakeholder alignment, trade-off structuring, resource mapping, goal-setting frameworks, and initiative sequencing
- Build and run 6-month and multi-year planning cycles in close partnership with the SVP
- Translate strategic direction into clear, actionable operating plans with accountability mechanisms and measurable milestones
- Pressure-test priorities and trade-offs across the leadership team, surfacing risks and driving decisions
- Coordinate cross-functional planning inputs from Finance, Sales, Product, and Engineering
- Design and drive weekly, monthly, and quarterly leadership rhythms
- Lead monthly KPI and performance reviews; elevate the quality, clarity, and decisiveness of all leadership forums
- Identify and prioritize opportunities to apply AI and automation to improve how Client Operations runs- from reducing manual work in reporting and communications to accelerating program execution
- Ensure disciplined follow-through on commitments across senior leaders
- Attend Client Operations leadership team staff meetings, representing the SVP's perspective, identifying cross-functional dependencies and risks, and synthesizing insights into coordinated action plans
- Continuously assess and improve how Client Operations sets goals, measures performance, and executes at scale
- Build, develop, and direct a small team of Program Managers who lead and drive projects within Client Operations and across the Wrapbook organization
- This team will Program manage initiatives end-to-end: scoping, planning, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and outcomes measurement
- You will retain personal ownership of the highest-stakes strategic work while directing the team on large operational programs
- Own Board, All Hands, Monthly State of the Business, and leadership offsite materials
- Proactively draft and socialize key communications to ensure leadership alignment ahead of broad announcements
- Partner with SVP of Ops to drive the cascading communications motion across Client Operations — from CO SLT alignment, to StratOps and frontline leaders, through to ICs via their respective Slack channels — ensuring the right message reaches the right audience in the right sequence
- 8–12+ years in strategy, business operations, executive operations, consulting, or operational leadership roles
- Prior experience as a Chief of Staff, VP/Director of Business Operations, or senior strategic operator supporting an SVP, COO, or CEO in a complex organization
- Proven track record running annual and multi-year planning processes — including coordinating executive stakeholders, structuring trade-offs, aligning resources, and translating strategy into measurable operating plans
- Experience managing and developing direct reports; comfort hiring for, building, and leading small teams
- Track record of program managing large, cross-functional initiatives from ambiguity through sustained execution and measurable outcomes
- Experience operating in high-growth, cross-functional environments with executive visibility
- Strong executive presence and the ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level narrative development and board-ready materials
- Structural thinking — able to bring order to ambiguity and build systems that scale
- High business judgment: able to distinguish what matters from what is merely urgent, and make sound trade-offs without perfect information
- A bias toward action — equally comfortable shaping strategy and driving it to completion
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Work from anywhere in Canada and USA
- Health and Dental benefits
- Up to $1,500 USD/ $2,025 CAD towards IT set up for your home
- Up to 2% matching RRSP / 401K
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Up to $50 USD/ $67.50 CAD towards Internet/Cell phone service




