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 570 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 570 active roles at last snapshot — compared to VP's 4,204 and Director's 2,674 — 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 350 of these roles (61%), reflecting where the Sr. Director tier is most established.
Sample Jobs (10 of 570)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Senior Director - Software Engineering GE Healthcare Lead a software engineering group to deliver quality software products on budget and schedule. Manage teams responsible for UX, front end, and back end development. Present leadership updates and define future technology platforms. Sr Director | Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India Onsite |
| Senior Director, Revenue Enablement Clio Seeking a Senior Director of Revenue Enablement to join the Revenue Operations team, responsible for building a modern, high velocity, AI-forward enablement function. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Senior Director, Clinical Development Loyal Lead clinical development strategies for veterinary drug programs at Loyal, a company focused on longevity drugs for dogs. Responsible for clinical strategy, study design, execution, and regulatory interactions. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Sr. Director, Enterprise Litera The role involves developing strategic and commercial GTM plans, providing leadership to the sales organization, and collaborating with various departments to optimize pricing and contract efficiencies. Sr Director | Illinois, USA Hybrid |
| Senior Director, Software Development Engineering Labcorp The role involves engineering leadership, delivery, and long-term evolution of software systems supporting laboratory operations and enterprise business capabilities. Sr Director | Durham, NC Hybrid |
| Sr. Director, Pharma Industry Advisor Salesforce Seeking a visionary and experienced Industry Advisor to the Pharma+ accounts, responsible for partnering with sales, product, professional services, partners, etc. to drive growth strategies around key Pharma+ accounts. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Sr Director, Internal Audit Nordstrom Lead the enterprise internal audit function, design and execute audit strategies, and provide assurance across retail, supply chain, digital, and technology. Sr Director | Seattle, WA Hybrid |
| Senior Director, Central Operations Justworks Lead operations transformation, AI and automation initiatives, and build operational infrastructure at Justworks. Sr Director | New York, New York Hybrid |
| Senior Director, Fulfillment Operations ShipBob The role involves driving innovation in e-commerce logistics, managing a large fulfillment team, and developing supply chain strategies. It requires extensive experience in supply chain leadership and logistics. Sr Director | Remote Remote |
| Senior Director - Enterprise Risk Management GE Vernova The Senior Director will lead the transformation of the ERM function at GE Vernova, working with executive leadership to enhance the ERM framework and embed a risk-aware culture. Sr Director | Cambridge, MA and Atlanta, GA Onsite |
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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