About the role
Own the planning calendar and Cycle cadence Build and maintain the master planning calendar for the 12-week Cycle, including the meetup and kickoff week, execution sprints, the midpoint replanning checkpoint, demos, retrospectives, and end-of-cycle reviews. Schedule and coordinate the recurring leadership cadence: leadership reviews, monthly business reviews, and the Cycle's leadership checkpoints, and ensure the workstream-level review calendar aligns to it. Run the planning timeline for the next Cycle in parallel with the current one, since next-cycle planning begins at mid-cycle. Sequence proposal drafts, leadership alignment sessions, mission-sheet reviews, and finalization of workstreams, DRIs, and squads ahead of the next meetup. Facilitate the midpoint replan: help workstream owners decide where course corrections are needed and reflect those changes cleanly in the plan. Manage change: keep the plan current as scope, priorities, resourcing, and dependencies shift, with minimal disruption to teams. Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 4+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR equivalent experience. Demonstrated experience owning schedules, calendars, and delivery cadence for large, cross-functional programs. Excellent written and verbal communication and the ability to keep a large, distributed group aligned and informed. Experience supporting a Program Management Office or a comparable central planning or delivery-excellence function. Track record coordinating across multiple partner organizations and influencing without direct authority. Experience maintaining a planning system of record and enforcing data quality across many teams. Familiarity with software or platform release cycles, launch readiness, and dependency management. Experience applying AI-assisted or automated tooling to scheduling, forecasting, reporting, or process improvement. Strong bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and a habit of getting ahead of risks before they become blockers.
