Director, M&A Strategic Initiatives

Job Description

Location Details: Kirkland, WA or REMOTE

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

Hybrid-or-Remote: This position may be a hybrid or fully remote position, as decided by your manager. If designated as hybrid, you’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office location, so you should live within commuting distance. If designated as remote, you’ll be working remotely from your home and may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or offsites. Your hiring manager can share more about this role’s hybrid or remote designation.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

What you'll get to do...

Strategic Initiative leaders play a unique role which requires bold individuals who are willing to take risks and accept accountability for complex matters. Key traits for a successful Strategic Initiative leader include:

• Truly believe - because your belief makes you and others successful against all odds
• Ability and willingness to learn
• Grit and hard working
• The confidence to start anything and humility to accept failure
• Deliver outcomes that others have said are impossible
• Create clarity out of ambiguity
• Build teams, connections, and collaboration across the organization to get things done
• Have fun – we do better at what we enjoy

Strategic Initiative leaders may come from a specific background or domain, but their hunger to learn puts them on a different path. It’s someone who puts aside the normal career path to learn at an accelerated pace by working with executives achieving things that we may not already know how to do. By definition, Strategic Initiative leaders are dropped into new opportunities because they want to be stretched, pushed and are excited to do new and different things. The best management consultants bring us, from outside, the information we desperately need to drive results. Strategic Initiative leaders can also deliver deep insights, but they use those insights get the results while building new capabilities for the company. In other words, Strategic Initiative leaders seek to not just “report the weather”, but “change the weather”.

Strategic Initiative leaders may leverage a variety of tools and frameworks to get things done. A non-exhaustive set of examples includes engineering leadership, financial analysis, program management, labor force management, vendor management, change management, negotiations, people leaderhip, etc. And sometimes, Strategic Initiative leaders will develop new tools and frameworks, like the DIDD delivery model for integrations.

One of the primary tools a Strategic Initiative leader uses to get stuff done across the organization is influence. This influence may be exercised through vision, shoulder to shoulder work, or coaching and mentoring. These can be described as leading from the front (vision), leading from the side (shoulder), or leading from behind (coaching)

Strategic Initiative leaders play whatever role is required on a Strategic Initiative to get things done. Sometimes this is the program governance leader; sometimes a track leader; sometimes a subject matter expert; and sometimes we plug holes.

The Strategic Initiative leader role is not just an executive role but is available for people with experience to share and lots of hunger to learn.

Words we live by

• Whatever it takes
• We are better because of each other; we give and receive help
• Hold on tightly; let go lightly
• The only good integration is a FAST one
• There is no penalty for finishing early
• Do as expected

Your experience should include...

• 12+ years of work experience in tech companies, and 6+ years of demonstrated experience in successfully delivering companywide initiatives.
• 5+ years of experience leading, coaching and developing team members
• Strong business aptitude – be comfortable defining company integration strategy, identifying and defining business opportunities, and crafting and executing delivery plans.
• Strong engineering aptitude – be effective at using your technical depth and the voice of the customer to partner with and earn trust of a world-class Engineering organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or equivalent practical experience.

We've got your back... Enjoy our many benefits (My Wallet), which may vary depending on role and tenure, including paid time off, 401k, bonus eligibility, equity grants and parental leave. Join one of our employee resource groups (Culture). Once approved, continue to have a side hustle if you have one (we love entrepreneurs, remember?). Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing all of the help and tools to succeed online. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights and the people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us (https://aboutus.godaddy.net/about-us/overview/default.aspx.)

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