Director, Services Operations & Planning

Director, Services Operations & Planning

United States - Remote

Rithum™ is the world’s most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimize operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimized consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

As the Director, Client Operations & Planning, you are responsible for driving operational clarity, execution discipline, and strategic alignment across the client organization. This role ensures that strategic priorities translate into measurable operational outcomes through strong governance, performance visibility, and cross‑functional accountability. You partner closely with executive leadership, functional VPs, and the CEO Chief of Staff to coordinate enterprise initiatives, strengthen operational planning, and provide executive‑level insight into performance and strategic priorities.

The Director plays a critical role in ensuring the organization maintains focus on the highest‑impact initiatives while enabling leaders to execute with clarity and accountability.

• Own the executive client operations performance package and narrative used for executive leadership team (ELT), board, and investor reporting.
• Develop and maintain clear visibility into operational performance, priorities, risks, and outcomes across the client organization.
• Partner with executive leadership to translate strategic priorities into operational plans and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure alignment of operational initiatives with enterprise strategy and business unit goals.
• Run the enterprise client initiative portfolio, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, and execution discipline.
• Establish governance processes that ensure initiatives are aligned with strategic priorities and appropriately resourced.
• Monitor initiative progress, identify risks, and ensure clear escalation paths to leadership when execution risks arise.
• Maintain transparency across leadership teams regarding priorities, dependencies, and progress.

• Drive cross‑functional accountability across initiatives by working closely with functional leaders to track commitments, timelines, and outcomes.
• Challenge assumptions, timelines, and risks constructively to ensure initiatives remain on track and deliver intended results.
• Facilitate alignment across Sales, Client Operations, Product, Marketing, Finance, and other functional partners to resolve operational dependencies.

• Govern the operational enablement standards library, including playbooks, templates, operating cadences, and best practices.
• Ensure teams have access to standardized operational frameworks that support scalable execution and consistency across the organization.
• Continuously refine operating models, processes, and internal frameworks to improve efficiency and execution quality.

• Own identification and evaluation of AI‑enabled operational opportunities across the client organization.
• Develop business cases for automation and AI adoption that improve productivity, efficiency, and operational performance.
• Track adoption, outcomes, and benefits through a structured AI benefits register and operational improvement roadmap.

• Lead the principal expert bench, ensuring expertise is deployed transparently against the organization’s highest‑priority opportunities and initiatives.
• Coordinate subject matter expertise to support complex operational initiatives, strategic projects, and high‑impact transformation efforts.
• Own operational strategies for Retail Media, Digital Marketing, and Service Partnerships in partnership with functional leaders.
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