Executive Director, Strategic Capabilities

About the role

The Executive Director, Strategic Capabilities leads the development and implementation of strategic systems, processes, and tools that enhance decision‑making across Basketball Operations. Acting as the bridge between salary‑cap strategy, legal expertise, and technology, this role ensures the front office has best‑in‑class capabilities to evaluate transactions, manage roster construction, and execute long‑term organizational strategy.

Key responsibilities

• Lead planning, prioritization, and execution of strategic capability initiatives that strengthen basketball operations infrastructure.
• Manage project timelines, requirements, dependencies, and risk across the portfolio of Basketball Strategy tools and systems.
• Translate NBA salary‑cap rules, CBA provisions, legal considerations, and player contract structures into practical strategic frameworks and technology solutions.
• Identify improvement opportunities, drive projects from concept through design, testing, and deployment.
• Partner with Data Systems Development to deliver technology solutions for roster construction, trade analysis, contract modeling, salary‑cap planning, and transaction management.
• Oversee complex salary‑cap strategy projects that support contract evaluation, trade simulations, free‑agency planning, and long‑term roster management.
• Collaborate with Basketball Operations leadership to align tools with competitive objectives across planning horizons.
• Establish governance, documentation, and best practices for strategic systems, ensuring data integrity and usability.
• Monitor evolving NBA rules and CBA interpretations, incorporating changes into strategy and supporting technologies.

Required profile

Required skills