Executive Director, Strategic Capabilities

Essential Functions (Duties & Responsibilities)

• Lead the planning, prioritization, and execution of strategic capability initiatives that strengthen the organization's basketball operations infrastructure.
• Manage project timelines, requirements, dependencies, and risk across the full portfolio of Basketball Strategy tools and systems.
• Translate complex NBA salary cap rules, collective bargaining agreement (CBA) provisions, legal considerations, and player contract structures into practical strategic frameworks and technology solutions.
• Identify opportunities to improve basketball operations through new strategic capabilities, leading projects from concept and business case through design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Partner closely with the Data Systems Development team to design and deliver technology solutions that support roster construction, trade analysis, contract modeling, salary cap planning, and transaction management.
• Initiate, develop, and oversee complex salary cap strategy projects that build scalable systems supporting contract evaluation, trade simulations, free agency planning, and long-term roster management.
• Collaborate with Basketball Operations leadership to ensure strategic tools align with the organization's competitive objectives across short-, medium-, and long-term planning horizons.
• Provide strategic guidance and feedback on cross-functional Basketball Operations initiatives to ensure projects support organizational priorities and future decision-making capabilities.
• Establish governance, documentation, and best practices for strategic systems, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and usability across departments.
• Monitor evolving NBA rules, CBA interpretations, and league trends, proactively incorporating changes into organizational strategy and supporting technologies.
• Foster collaboration among Strategy, Basketball Operations, Analytics, Legal, Finance, and Technology teams to ensure successful execution of strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

• A minimum of seven (7) year’s experience with NBA salary cap rules, collective bargaining agreement, player contracts, and roster construction strategies.
• Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree in business, law, analytics, computer science, sports management or related field preferred.

Skills

• Proven experience leading complex cross-functional projects from planning through implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to translate highly technical or legal concepts into actionable business and basketball strategy.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, strategic planning, and systems implementation.
• Experience working closely with software development or data systems teams.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives in a fast-paced professional sports environment.

Pay

The pay range for this role is $280,000 - $300,000 annually. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and certifications. In addition to those factors, we consider the relative pay of our current employees in similar positions when making a final offer.