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About the Role
The Senior Director, Digital Innovation Partnerships will lead the development of an enterprise capability focused on aligning the future of digital capabilities to business needs and goals. This role sits at the intersection of strategy, innovation, technology, and external ecosystems, working closely with senior executives and cross-functional leaders to identify opportunities, assess emerging technologies, and determine where external partnerships can accelerate business value. The role will take an outside-in perspective to connect external insights to internal needs and business priorities, leading a high-performing team responsible for innovation and opportunity development, strategic partnerships and ecosystem engagement, and market and technology intelligence.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior executives and business leaders to understand strategic priorities, business challenges, and areas where innovation can create meaningful value.
- Establish frameworks and approaches for identifying, assessing, and prioritizing emerging opportunities.
- Translate market, technology, and competitive insights into actionable opportunities.
- Work with executives and cross-functional leaders to uncover and frame high-value opportunities.
- Conduct structured opportunity assessments and create clear recommendations for opportunity spaces that should be explored further, pursued internally, developed through partnerships, or discontinued.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to design and execute experiments and test hypotheses.
- Establish clear criteria and repeatable process for moving opportunities from early discovery to validation and transition to appropriate organizational teams for execution.
- Develop and execute a strategic partnership approach to align external innovation opportunities to business needs.
- Build relationships with technology providers, startups, innovators, and academic institutions where appropriate.
- Facilitate co-creation and ideation sessions with partners, and in conjunction with internal leaders.
- Directly manage a small, senior level team, leading them through change and coaching them for growth and developing the team’s capabilities to drive innovation across the Village.
- Establish working teams for each innovation initiative as needed by partnering with research, design, and prototyping teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Master of Science or Business Administration (MBA) or equivalent advanced degree highly preferred or equivalent related experience.
- 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Significant experience leading strategic initiatives in ambiguous environments, incorporating emerging technologies, and driving transformational change.
- Experience executing opportunity assessment, translating insights into strategic recommendations, and influencing senior executives to focus innovation initiatives.
- Experience establishing and managing external partnership ecosystems.
- Demonstrated ability to understand emerging technology and translate it into business opportunities.
- Experience leading senior level high performing teams, and managing with a balance of clear direction, empathy, and coaching for growth.
- Exceptional communication skills, executive presence, and relationship-building abilities.
Skills
- Strategic Thinker
- Influencer
- Communicator
- Curious
- Collaborative
Location
- 601 Hawaii St, El Segundo, California, 90245-4814, United States of America
Work Type
- Onsite
- Up to ~25% travel
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- 10+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master of Science or Business Administration (MBA) or equivalent advanced degree highly preferred or equivalent related experience
Salary/Compensations
- $181,000.00 - $261,000.00 per year
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
- Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
- Professional development programs
- On-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning
About the Company
- At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.