Strategy and Operations Lead, IT

Details

Within IT Business Operations, this role connects strategy, workforce, spending, and execution so leaders can direct resources to the highest-value work. The Strategy and Operations Lead will lead workforce and capacity planning for NVIDIA IT, advise executives, challenge assumptions, and move from analysis to implementation. The role requires curiosity, candor, responsible experimentation, and evidence-backed decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Own NVIDIA IT’s annual and quarterly workforce and operational planning process.
• Connect business priorities, portfolio demand, service commitments, and technical roadmaps to clear capability and capacity requirements.
• Build integrated scenarios showing tradeoffs across full-time employees, contingent workers, suppliers, skills, locations, cost, productivity, and risk.
• Help leaders decide where to add, redeploy, develop, automate, outsource, or stop work.
• Define success measures that make ownership and progress visible.
• Build operating systems that support better decisions, including governed data models, scenario tools, dashboards, workflow automation, and lightweight artificial intelligence solutions.
• Work directly with leaders and users to test ideas, measure adoption, and improve tools until they change outcomes.
• Shape supplier and external workforce strategy within the capacity model, including partner mix, delivery model, location, consolidation, productivity, and performance.
• Partner closely with IT, Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, Legal, and business teams to keep decisions fast, evidence-based, and accountable.
• Address high-impact questions without an obvious owner, surface capacity constraints early, and provide concise recommendations to technology executives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, operations, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, workforce strategy, or business operations, including 5+ years leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience owning workforce, capacity, portfolio, or operational planning in a complex global organization and translating plans into measurable execution.
• Exceptional structured problem-solving, business judgment, and quantitative depth, including scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and data validation with incomplete or conflicting data.
• Hands-on fluency with advanced spreadsheets, data visualization, analytical platforms, and artificial intelligence tools, along with the ability to query data and rapidly prototype solutions.
• Clear executive communication and influence, including the ability to turn complex business and technical material into concise recommendations, explicit tradeoffs, and decisions.
• Knowledge of external workforce models, supplier economics, and commercial tradeoffs, with respect for approval roles held by Procurement, Legal, Finance, and Human Resources.
• Experience building a workforce or capacity planning operating system from the ground up in a high-growth technology, infrastructure, or consulting environment.
• Experience shipping internal data products, automated workflows, agents, or decision tools that leaders adopted and that improved speed, quality, cost, or productivity.
• Experience modeling global workforce choices across employees, contractors, suppliers, skills, locations, and outcome-based delivery.
• A combination of strategy consulting or corporate strategy experience and a record of implementing and operating designed solutions.

Benefits

The base salary range is 200,000 USD–322,000 USD, determined by location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The role also includes eligibility for equity and benefits.