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 675 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 675 active roles at last snapshot — compared to VP's 4,865 and Director's 3,123 — 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 405 of these roles (60%), reflecting where the Sr. Director tier is most established.
Sample Jobs (10 of 675)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Senior Director, Prior Authorization Governance Centene Corporation Lead enterprise-wide Prior Authorization governance strategy, oversight, and optimization across all lines of business. Partner with various departments to drive decision-making and business outcomes through data analytics and AI tools. Sr Director | Unknown Unknown |
| Senior Director Regulatory Affairs - ACH Tyra Biosciences The role involves strategic regulatory leadership for a Skeletal Dysplasia program, requiring global regulatory strategy experience and leadership in a biotech environment. Sr Director | United States Remote |
| Senior Director, Revenue Accounting & OTC Operations LaunchDarkly Lead global revenue accounting organization, partner with GTM, Legal, Deal Desk, and Product to define strategy and operating model for quoting and contracting. Responsible for order management, billings, collections, revenue and commissions accounting, ensuring accurate metrics and financial reporting, and strong internal controls and compliance with U.S. GAAP. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Senior Director of Event Travel, Navan Events Navan The role involves overseeing global Event Travel operations, building a unified operating model, and expanding Navan's event-travel platform. Responsibilities include leading a global team, ensuring service quality, and driving operational transformation. Sr Director | Austin, TX; Boston, MA; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA or San Francisco, CA Onsite |
| Sr. Director, Compensation Samsara The Sr. Director, Compensation role involves leading compensation strategies and ensuring competitive pay practices. Sr Director | Unknown Unknown |
| Sr Director, PM Labcorp Develop and execute a global vision for integrating BioAnalytical Services into a comprehensive drug development product offering. Ensure quality, scientific, and client service targets are achieved. Oversee development and renovation programs, employee development, and strategic governance. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Senior Director, Construction Crusoe Lead construction delivery for AI data center campuses, manage budgets and schedules, build and lead a construction team. Sr Director | San Francisco, CA - US; Dallas, TX - US Onsite |
| Senior Director of Advancement Finger Lakes Land Trust The role involves strategic leadership in fundraising and communications for the Finger Lakes Land Trust, focusing on land conservation. Sr Director | Ithaca, NY Unknown |
| Senior Legal Director, Cyber & Data Risk Johnson & Johnson The role involves advising on cybersecurity, data risk, and legal matters, requiring a JD degree and 12 years of experience. Sr Director | New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America Hybrid |
| Senior Director of Pricing Payoneer The role involves shaping and scaling Payoneer’s pricing strategy, processes, products, and packaging. It requires working closely with go-to-market teams and product teams to automate workflows and build scalable pricing products. Sr Director | Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, Israel 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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