Sr Director, Platform & Technology Operations; Breakthrough

Position Summary

The Senior Director, Platform and Technology Operations, owns the infrastructure, reliability, and operational excellence of Breakthrough's technology platform. This role is accountable for cloud operations, production environments, data platform infrastructure, security, compliance, and internal technical support.

This leader ensures our platform runs reliably and scales to support 200+ Fortune 500 clients. They own cloud infrastructure, production environment health, monitoring and observability, incident management, and the maturity of our security and compliance programs. They lead client‑facing security engagements and manage vendor relationships across the operational toolchain.

This is a working leadership role with a lean team. Technically credible enough to challenge and develop the leaders on the team, while focused on making the overall operational function work: setting strategy, building repeatable processes, and raising the capabilities of the people and systems across the group.

The ideal location is on‑site in Green Bay, WI, however, based on relevant experience we may consider candidates within a drivable distance who can travel monthly.

• Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of cloud infrastructure (GCP)
• Manage production and staging environments, ensuring stability and availability
• Own the monitoring and observability stack: logging, tracing, metrics, and alerting
• Drive proactive capacity planning to stay ahead of demand as the client base and platform grow
• Own data platform infrastructure (Big Query, data pipelines) and the compute/platform layer supporting ML and AI workloads
• Drive infrastructure architecture decisions in partnership with engineering leadership
• Drive SLA/SLO definition, measurement, and reporting
• Own the incident management framework: tooling, severity definitions, post‑mortem process, and escalation to business continuity activation, leadership notification, and client communication
• Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning

• Own and evolve Breakthrough's security and compliance programs, including SOC 2, with a mandate to continuously expand the framework portfolio as client and market needs require
• Continuously mature the organization's security posture: policies, controls, risk management, vulnerability management, access controls, and network security, independent of any single compliance framework
• Own multi‑tenant data isolation, client data handling policies, and data retention and governance practices
• Lead client‑facing security questionnaires, audits, and due diligence processes
• Partner with U.S. Venture's corporate information security team to align on corporate policies, share intelligence, and coordinate security initiatives

• Oversee the Help Desk function, ensuring internal teams have the tools and support they need to be productive
• Own internal IT operations, endpoint management, and end‑user experience

• Manage vendor relationships for cloud services (GCP), security tooling, and operational platforms
• Own contract negotiations and renewals for tooling within the operational domain
• Drive cloud cost optimization and Fin Ops discipline

• Cloud infrastructure architecture and operations (GCP preferred)
• Production environment management, monitoring, and observability tooling
• Data platform infrastructure and familiarity with modern data and AI/ML operational patterns
• Network security, identity and access management, and vulnerability management
• Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Cloud‑native architectures and infrastructure‑as‑code

• Compliance program management and framework evaluation
• Data governance and multi‑tenant data management practices
• Vendor and contract management
• Budget management and cloud cost optimization
• Client‑facing communication on security and compliance topics
• Risk assessment and mitigation

• Leads through the team rather than around them: sets direction, removes obstacles, and develops leaders instead of doing their work
• Com…