Director, Product Operations
Hotel Brand:
Location: United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Hotel: Corp Atlanta Ravinia, Three Ravinia Drive, Suite 100, 30346
Job number: 157162
Your day to day
- Drive disciplined execution through exceptional organization, structure, and follow-through to turn conversations & plans into tangible outcomes
- Orchestrate organizational planning and priority-setting in collaboration with senior leadership, ensuring alignment and effective execution across teams.
- Lead with a hands-on, organized approach that brings clarity, discipline, and momentum to complex initiatives - managing functional-wide project planning and overseeing timely, on-budget delivery by coordinating resources and mitigating risks.
- Analyze market and technology trends to inform strategy, while creating executive communications to drive clarity, buy-in, and progress tracking.
- Implement clear structure and drive process improvements and KPI development to optimize operations, measure success, and identify areas for growth.
- Support and operationalize release and change management processes, enabling structured release calendars, quality gates, readiness checks, and stronger coordination across impacted teams.
- Coordinate unified governance and compliance routines across Corporate Products platforms to ensure consistent controls, documentation, and risk oversight.
- Foster leadership alignment and a supportive culture through meeting facilitation, goal-setting, recognition, and cross-functional collaboration on key initiatives.
What we need from you
- 8 years of progressive experience, including 3 years in strategy, project/product management, product development, corporate platforms (ERP, HCM), or operations.
- Proven expertise in strategic planning, project management, release management, compliance, and leadership roles.
- Strong analytical skills to translate complex data into actionable strategies.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities to influence and build consensus across all organizational levels.
- Demonstrated leadership in developing high-performing teams and working closely with senior executives, maintaining confidentiality and a product-focused, customer-centric approach.
- Product mindset proficiency focused on delivering customer value, iterative improvement, data-driven decision-making, and aligning business goals with user needs.
- Familiarity with Corporate/Back Office tools and platforms (e.g., Oracle Fusion SaaS, PeopleSoft, SAP, Workday, and workflow automation) and ability to drive adoption across teams.
Travel - minimum of 10%
Location - this role can be based in any major metropolitan city in the US.
The salary for this role is $155,000 to $170,000. This role is also eligible for bonus pay. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401K and other benefits to employees.
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Who we are
At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.
Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.
We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.
We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.
Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
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Important information:
- The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.
- No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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