Senior Director Executive Roles — the feeder tier to VP
Sr. Director is a distinct tier with its own promotion path — typically one step below VP and one step above Director, with 1,005 active roles at last snapshot.
Top role types
What this category covers
The Senior Director tier is narrower than the broader Director category. At most mid-to-large companies, Senior Director sits one step below VP and one step above Director — and the distinction matters. A Sr. Director at a 500-person company typically has materially more scope than a Director at a 5,000-person company, even though "Director" is a broader category.
At flatter organizations — often growth-stage companies or lean functional orgs — a Senior Director may carry VP-equivalent authority without the VP title. The classifier weighs reporting structure and functional ownership, not just title prefix, to resolve these.
With approximately 1,005 active roles at last snapshot — compared to VP's 5,363 and Director's 5,133 — the Sr. Director tier has lower total volume but often higher concentration of strategic-track candidates who are on a defined path to VP. The Technology industry accounts for 568 of these roles (57%), reflecting where the Sr. Director tier is most established.
Sample Jobs (10 of 1,005)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives Centene Develop and direct strategic business initiatives within enterprise priorities, including product offerings, management, development, and enhancement. Partner with leadership to drive strategic initiatives from development to execution. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Senior Director of Events & Experiential Smartly Smartly is seeking a strategic, commercially-minded Senior Director of Events & Experiential to lead global event strategy and experiential marketing. The role involves driving event-influenced revenue, overseeing brand reputation, and leading a global team. Sr Director | Chicago, Illinois, United States; London, England, United Kingdom; New York, New York, United States Unknown |
| Senior Director, Regulatory Strategy Program Lead Rapport Therapeutics Lead regulatory strategy for a development program, requiring experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry. Sr Director | Boston, MA Hybrid |
| Senior Director - Client Development Hermes The Senior Director of Client Development will oversee client development experts, develop strategies to drive sales, and ensure seamless client experiences. The role involves partnership with CRM, Digital Analytics, and BI teams. Sr Director | New York, NY Onsite |
| Senior Director of Finance Scion Staffing, Inc. The Senior Director of Finance at Scion Staffing will provide strategic financial leadership, manage finance, accounting, reporting, forecasting, cash management, and finance strategy. The role involves leading a small finance team and working closely with the CEO and Managing Director of Operations & Finance. Sr Director | Portland, OR Hybrid |
| Senior Director, Early Clinical Development (MD) - Neuroscience Bristol Myers Squibb The Senior Director will own the clinical strategy for neuropsychiatry programs, requiring extensive experience in clinical development in neuropsychiatric indications. Sr Director | Uxbridge, GB Unknown |
| Senior Director, Partnerships - Tech, Finance, Auto Vox Media Responsible for expanding high-value relationships and driving new business growth across New York Magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network, and Vox.com. Requires strategic partnership development and consultative sales leadership. Sr Director | New York, NY Onsite |
| Senior Director - Disclosures Strategy Veeva Systems Lead the adoption and growth of Veeva Disclosures within the Clinical Operations suite, focusing on clinical trial transparency and disclosure practices. Sr Director | Massachusetts - Boston Remote |
| Strategy & Ops Senior Lead Lemonade Drive profitability and growth while leading strategic initiatives at Lemonade. Work as a "mini-COO" for product lines, collaborating on cross-functional projects. Sr Director | Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel Onsite |
| Senior Director, Product Management Prudential Financial, Inc. The role involves shaping PGIM's success by partnering with key business units across Prudential, influencing strategic decisions, and delivering exceptional outcomes for clients and stakeholders. It requires collaboration with various departments and involves product positioning, strategic direction, and training. Sr Director | Newark, NJ, USA Hybrid |
How classification gets to this category
Senior Director classification is one of the most title-exact in the system:
- Exact title matching. "Senior Director" and "Sr. Director" (including the abbreviated form with the period) are both recognized. The classifier does not infer Sr. Director status from context alone — the title must be present or signaled by a near-exact variant. "Senior Director of Engineering," "Sr. Director, Operations," and "Senior Director, Revenue Cycle" all match.
- Compensation validation. $220K+ base is the floor for Sr. Director auto-classification. Roles below this threshold with Sr. Director titles are held for manual review — at some company sizes, a "Senior Director" title carries analyst-level scope and compensation.
- Reporting and team-size secondary signals. Sr. Directors typically report to a VP or SVP, occasionally to the C-suite directly at smaller orgs. Team size of 10–50 ICs and functional budget of $5M–$50M are common signals. Roles reporting to a Director (peer-level reporting) are flagged for review. See the AI Classification page for the full pipeline.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Senior Director tier is a seniority-specific filter that isolates this exact promotion band — above Director, below VP.
Example: select Sr. Director tier + Technology industry and your inbox shows Senior Director roles at tech companies only — not VP Engineering (VP-tier), not Director of Engineering (Director-tier), but the Senior Director of Engineering and Sr. Director of Platform layer at tech companies. The tier and industry must both pass.
Because Sr. Director volume is lower than VP or Director, adding a role-type filter can narrow the result set significantly. If you find the result set too small after filtering, consider expanding to include both Sr. Director + Director tiers — the adjacent tiers often share candidate profiles, especially at growth-stage companies where the two levels are close in authority.
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