The Senior Director of Strategic Innovation is responsible for directing a pillar of the SIT Operating Model and leading a team of SIM(s) to advance the journey of BlackLine customers. The Senior Director partners with the CTrO to design strategies that drive Strategic Customer optimization and expansion, as well as, supporting net new customer sales. The Senior Director partners with SAM and SAM leadership to design customer strategies to help accelerate the customer BlackLine journey. This individual works with the CTrO to develop, communicate, and execute programs that will optimize the customer experience and are tied to BlackLine's strategic objectives. They also work across internal BlackLine teams to align cross functional efforts to drive customer optimization. The Senior Director passionately champions leading practices and offers optimal solutions across BlackLine's platform that are directly tied to customer expansion, referenceability, and reduction in churn, as well as, supporting new logo expansion. The Senior Director demonstrates an effective executive presence that demonstrates comfort at all levels of the customer organization, including the office of the CFO even when difficult conversations are required. Furthermore, this position must be able to flex the message to the audience, speaking with confidence and compassion for the customer. The Senior Director also leverages their BlackLine expertise, their accounting, internal controls, and process improvement expertise, as well as their professional judgment to provide leading practices, insights, and deliverables. They guide the team through solving customers' complex business challenges as well. These deliverables include original, innovative solutions for complex customer challenges, consulting, process redesign and transformation, solution architecture specific to the customers' challenges, one to many thought leadership, Executive touch points and strategy sessions, and recommendations to accelerate customers' accounting innovation journey. Most importantly, the Senior Director must be highly confident in the unknown as many customers require assistance in understanding their own processes before considering optimization with BlackLine. They should be able to help their team also navigate the unknown to provide optimal solutions. The Senior Director should be a strategic storyteller and tie business challenges to quantitative and qualitative benefits that drives customer expansion. All facets of the Senior Director role are designed to drive customers to BlackLine nirvana.

· Actively pursue, secure and maintain relationships with customer's Controller. Be the strategic partner.

· Own one of the four pillars of the SIT Operating Model: Communicate the vision, impact to customers, standards for delivery, metrics to measure effectives, and adapt the model as customer needs change

· Partner with the CTrO to develop, evolve and challenge the SIT model to ensure SIT is providing the highest possible value to BlackLine and its customers.

· Develop, monitor and maintain a closed loop feedback process which includes actionable recommendations that promote the Voice of the Accountant

· Identify and drive messaging that makes compelling arguments for the adoption of BlackLine.

· Lead team members as they assess current state process, propose potential solutions, and deliver optimized process transformations using the customer's data to show the art of the possible adopting the full platform and to help customers unlock accelerated value from BlackLine solutions.

· Challenge the status quo approach diplomatically and design original, innovative solutions for common customer challenges and team with other Strategic Innovation Team members for complex challenges where no standard solution currently exists.

· Coordinate CAB meetings, membership and internal alignment.

· Articulate value and benefits associated with optimized solutions.

· Design strategies to document process transformation use cases in a way that allows for their use throughout BlackLine.

· Leverage prior and current experiences and expertise to develop and deliver thought leadership to customers through webinars and other multi-customer events

· Design meaningful strategies and recommendations that directly impact and accelerate BlackLine Customers' Digital transformation

· Coordinate and align with other cross functional BlackLine Leaders to enrich the customer experience and provide solutions to customer challenges

· Listen to customers to understand their needs and translate their pain points into actionable BlackLine solutions

· Using professional judgment and expertise, offer opportunities where customers can provide their processes without written documentation; Review and analyze the processes and develop solutions (even when the customer is unsure of their process) based on personal experience and experience with other customers

· Develop scalable but adaptable strategies for Accounting Innovation Workshops along with post workshop options that ensure accelerated adoption of BlackLine capabilities and expansion.

· Engage with customer leadership and partner with SAM to understand the customers' goals, objectives, and challenges and adapt our SIT offerings to support their needs

· Work as a team with Strategic Account Managers and other departments on strategic account planning focused on ACV expansion, user adoption, referencability, and preventing attrition

· Deliver actionable advice and expertise to customers regarding using BlackLine's solutions as a foundational technology supporting their accounting innovation journey

· Maintain and elevate BlackLine knowledge as well as, other relevant domain knowledge that is imperative for advising customers on their Digital Transformation

· Identify and communicate on "at-risk" customers and work with SAM and leadership to devise best approach

· Exhibit authentic energy for BlackLine solutions and the desire to motivate and engage our customers

· Other duties as assigned