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

This is a high-trust, high-leverage role for someone who moves fluidly between strategy and execution. You will act as an extension of the CFO and CEO, working closely with the full leadership team.

What You'll Do

• M&A & Integration

  • Project-manage active M&A end to end — diligence coordination, workstream tracking, and post-close integration
  • Drive 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

• 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
  • Evaluate 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

• 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