Director, Onyx Enablement

Role Summary

Director, Onyx Enablement will report to the Senior Director, Onyx Portfolio Management in a Chief-of-Staff capacity to enable operational discipline within the Onyx organization. The role requires building strong relationships across Onyx Engineering, Product, Program, and Quality leads, R&D stakeholders, and enterprise partners such as Recruitment, Procurement, Finance, Compliance, RD&DT Portfolio, Real Estate & Facilities. The ideal candidate combines strong operational leadership with exceptional cross-functional coordination, capable of establishing scalable processes, governance structures, and actionable operational plans, to drive clarity, predictability, and efficiency across diverse teams, with a metrics-driven approach to performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a comprehensive enablement and operational framework for Onyx, ensuring it is consistently applied across all Onyx teams.
• Partner with Procurement to drive procurement operations, including vendor selection, procurement strategy, contract execution, contract lifecycle management, and vendor performance tracking and reporting.
• Partner with Recruiting to manage hiring pipelines, coordinate interview logistics, accelerate onboarding, and ensure staffing plans align with organizational needs.
• Collaborate closely with Tech and R&D Finance to manage budgets, track and forecast spend, provide financial visibility, and ensure alignment to annual and quarterly budget targets (both OPEX and CAPEX).
• Coordinate with Real Estate and Facilities to manage Onyx’s physical office footprint, including space allocation, operational readiness, and ongoing site support.
• Serve as the primary liaison to the central RDDT Portfolio team, managing intake, routing, prioritization, and follow-up on organizational requests.
• Lead and orchestrate organization-wide cadences and governance, including Townhalls, quarterly business reviews, stakeholder updates, and cross-functional planning cycles.
• Establish and track organization-level objectives, KPIs, and operational metrics; create reporting mechanisms and dashboards to measure operational performance, health, and delivery effectiveness.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities across operational workflows to enhance efficiency, predictability, and organizational scalability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Strong job-related experience with an established track record of Enablement, Strategy or Operations for technology teams
• Experience with an Engineering Organization is highly preferred
• Strong communication and concise language skills. Self-starter biased toward action. Proven ability to manage upwards and influence senior stakeholders
• Change agent with strong leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead without authority, motivate, challenge the status quo, and deliver sustainable business improvements
• Flexible thinking, ability to manage complexity and interpret strategy into pragmatic best practice deliverables
• Familiarity with project and risk management principles
• Ability to adapt, work under uncertainty and accommodate flexible work demands
• Global perspective; cultural sensitivity
• Ability to withstand pressure, self-motivated with sense of urgency

Skills

• Strong communication and concise language skills
• Self-starter biased toward action; proactive and results-driven
• Ability to manage upwards and influence senior stakeholders
• Change leadership; ability to lead without authority
• Analytical mindset; metrics-driven
• Ability to translate strategy into pragmatic deliverables
• Familiarity with project and risk management principles
• Ability to work under uncertainty and accommodate flexible work demands
• Global perspective and cultural sensitivity
• Resilience under pressure and a sense of urgency

Additional Requirements

• Hybrid role with a minimum on-site presence of 2–3 days per week