Director, Strategy and Operations

Mission

Skimmer builds the software that powers the pool and spa industry. Thousands of pool professionals rely on our platform to run their businesses. We are a PE-backed vertical SaaS company in high-growth mode, scaling our operating maturity.

About the role

You’ll act as an extension of the CFO and CEO and a close partner to the full leadership team. You’ll work alongside leaders who own their functions. The work is weighted toward strategy, M&A, exit readiness, and operational rigor, with program management as the throughline. You’ll report to our CFO with a dotted line to our CEO, be involved with active strategic projects from day one, and take on more decision-making over time as context and trust build.

What You'll Do

• M&A & Integration
• Project-manage active M&A end to end — diligence coordination, workstream tracking, and post-close integration — driving milestones and value capture alongside the CFO and relevant leaders
• Serve as the connective tissue between deal teams and the broader organization across Legal, People, Finance, and Product — ensuring nothing gets lost in translation
• Maintain centralized tracking of milestones and blockers; surface issues early and drive them to resolution
• Strategic Planning
• Run the annual and quarterly planning cadence — structure the analysis, frame choices with the leadership team, and turn decisions into a tracked operating plan with clear owners and dates
• Track progress against strategic initiatives; flag misalignment early and facilitate the right conversations to keep priorities on course
• Value Creation
• Drive the company’s value-creation roadmap, keeping cross-functional readiness work moving toward long-term goals
• Keep the value creation roadmap live and visible — ensuring progress is tracked and owners are held accountable across functions
• Evaluation of Strategic Initiatives
• Pressure-test and prioritize proposed and in-flight initiatives with their owners
• Build the business cases and analysis — including new-market assessments for the CEO — that inform where the company places its bets
• Cross-Functional Execution
• Drive the company’s most important cross-functional initiatives to completion; maintain a single source of truth for top priorities with clear owners and tracked milestones
• Run the leadership cadence as decision forums, not status meetings — log decisions and drive follow-through
• Hold the team accountable to commitments and timelines — working alongside an empowered leadership team, not running their functions
• Operational Maturity
• Build the reporting discipline, processes, and operating rigor that scale the business and strengthen long-term enterprise value
• Tighten reporting cadence, improve KPI reliability, and catch variance-to-plan earlier

About You

• Deep experience spanning a structured-thinking environment (consulting, banking, corporate development, or strategy) and an operating role — you’ve both built the plan and run the work
• AI-forward in how you work — you actively leverage and build with AI tools to move faster, think sharper, and do more with less — you love a spreadsheet, but love the power of AI-enabled tools even more
• Exceptional program management: you impose structure on ambiguity, run multiple workstreams in parallel, and keep senior stakeholders moving and accountable through structure, trust, and follow-through
• Strong commercial and financial fluency — SaaS metrics, unit economics, and the levers that drive enterprise value; comfortable building a business case and setting priorities
• M&A or integration exposure: diligence, integration planning, or post-merger integration
• Outstanding written and verbal communication — executive-grade materials and the presence to run a room
• Highly discreet with sensitive financial and strategic information; calm under pressure and comfortable operating with incomplete information