L5 - Director

Owned by Michael Cannon
Last updated: May 05, 2022
2 min read

Job Title

Director of DOMAIN (Services)

E.g., Director of Drupal Services, Director of Quality Assurance, Director of People Management

Summary

The Director is a center of excellence leader or professional expert that's accountable for the successful mission of a service offering, industry, domain, or account. Director accountability typically includes meeting marketing, sales, recruiting, and delivery expectations per quality, revenue, margin, team, and client satisfaction metrics.

Directors exert influence across the organization, providing insight and guidance to leaders and teams, helping inform on final solutions. They are experienced consultants and professional leaders with the wisdom to judge which of the latest trends are worth exploring and relevant to Axelerant.

Productive Organization

  • Has authority and responsibility for all aspects of a significant area of work, including policy formation and application

  • Is fully accountable for actions taken and decisions made by self and team members

  • Makes decisions critical to organizational success

  • Influences developments within their domain and industry at the highest levels

  • Advances the knowledge or exploitation of their field within the organization

  • Develops long-term strategic relationships with customers, partners, industry leaders, and government

  • Communicates the potential impact of emerging technologies on organizations and individuals and assesses the risks of using or not using such technologies

Productive Team

  • Leads on the formulation and implementation of their domain’s strategy

  • Applies the highest level of management and leadership skills

  • Has a deep understanding of their domain and industry and the implications of emerging technologies for the full business environment

  • Understands, explains and presents complex professionally-related ideas to technical and non-technical audiences at all levels up to the highest in a persuasive and convincing manner

  • Takes the initiative to keep their and team members skills up to date and to maintain an awareness of developments in their domain

Productive Self

  • Has a full range of strategic management and leadership skills

  • Has a broad and deep domain knowledge, coupled with the equivalent knowledge of the activities of those businesses and other organizations that employ their domain

  • Assesses the impact of legislation, and actively promotes compliance relevant to their domain

Requirements

  • 12+ years of relevant career experience

  • 5+ years of DOMAIN experience

  • 5+ years of working in a consulting or agency environment with enterprise-level clients

Role Relation

  • Gartner - Partner, Vice President, Project Executive