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Creative Director

De Pere, WI · Hybrid

$100K - $125K/yr

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De Pere, WI · Hybrid

$100K - $125K/yr

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What is a Platform Director?

A Platform Director is a senior leader responsible for overseeing the development, management, and strategic direction of a technology or business platform within an organization. They coordinate teams across engineering, product, and operations to ensure the platform meets business objectives and user needs. Platform Directors also manage budgets, set key performance indicators, and often play a central role in scaling and improving the platform's capabilities. Their work ensures the platform remains reliable, scalable, and aligned with the company's growth strategy.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a platform director?

To thrive as a Platform Director, you need strong leadership skills, strategic project management experience, and a background in platform architecture or software engineering, often supported by a relevant degree. Familiarity with cloud platforms, enterprise-level software systems, and certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect or PMP are highly valued. Outstanding communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving abilities help set top performers apart in this position. These skills and qualities are crucial for overseeing complex platform initiatives, aligning technical teams, and ensuring platform scalability and reliability.

How does a platform director typically collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve organizational goals?

As a Platform Director, you will regularly work alongside product managers, engineering leads, UX designers, and business stakeholders to develop and execute platform strategies. This role often involves facilitating communication between technical teams and business units, ensuring that platform initiatives align with broader company objectives. Effective collaboration is key, as you'll need to balance multiple priorities, resolve conflicts, and drive consensus to deliver scalable solutions that support diverse user and business needs.

What is the difference between Platform Director vs Product Manager?

AspectPlatform DirectorProduct Manager
ResponsibilitiesOversees entire platform infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and integration across multiple products or services.Focuses on specific products, managing development, features, and user experience.
Required CredentialsTypically requires a background in IT, software engineering, or systems architecture, often with leadership experience.Usually holds a degree in business, marketing, or computer science, with skills in product lifecycle management.
Work EnvironmentLeads cross-functional teams in a technical environment, often within large organizations or tech companies.Works closely with engineering, design, and marketing teams to develop and improve individual products.

While both roles involve strategic oversight, the Platform Director manages the overall platform infrastructure, whereas the Product Manager focuses on specific product development and user experience. Understanding these differences helps organizations assign the right responsibilities and expertise.

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Infographic showing various Platform Director job openings in Appleton, WI as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 50% Full Time, 47% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 77% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 21% Remote job distribution.

Sr Director, Platform & Technology Operations (Breakthrough)

U.S. Venture, Inc.

Green Bay, WI • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 4 days ago

U.S. Venture rating

8.2

Company rating: 8.2 out of 10

Based on 19 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

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Job description

POSITION SUMMARY
The Senior Director, Platform and Technology Operations, owns the infrastructure, reliability, and operational excellence of Breakthrough's technology platform. This role is accountable for cloud operations, production environments, data platform infrastructure, security, compliance, and internal technical support.
This leader makes sure our platform runs reliably and scales to support 200+ Fortune 500 clients. They own cloud infrastructure, production environment health, monitoring and observability, incident management, and the maturity of our security and compliance programs. They lead client-facing security engagements and manage vendor relationships across the operational toolchain.
This is a working leadership role with a lean team. Technically credible enough to challenge and develop the leaders on the team, while focused on making the overall operational function work: setting strategy, building repeatable processes, and raising the capabilities of the people and systems across the group.
The ideal location for this role is on-site in Green Bay, WI, however, based on relevancy of experience, we may consider candidates within a drivable distance from Green Bay in which monthly travel at a minimum would be required.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Infrastructure & Cloud Operations
  • Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of cloud infrastructure (GCP)
  • Manage production and staging environments, ensuring stability and availability
  • Own the monitoring and observability stack: logging, tracing, metrics, and alerting
  • Drive proactive capacity planning to stay ahead of demand as the client base and platform grow
  • Own data platform infrastructure (BigQuery, data pipelines) and the compute/platform layer supporting ML and AI workloads
  • Drive infrastructure architecture decisions in partnership with engineering leadership
  • Drive SLA/SLO definition, measurement, and reporting
  • Own the incident management framework: tooling, severity definitions, post-mortem process, and escalation to business continuity activation, leadership notification, and client communication
  • Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning

Security & Compliance Operations
  • Own and evolve Breakthrough's security and compliance programs, including SOC 2, with a mandate to continuously expand the framework portfolio as client and market needs require
  • Continuously mature the organization's security posture: policies, controls, risk management, vulnerability management, access controls, and network security, independent of any single compliance framework
  • Own multi-tenant data isolation, client data handling policies, and data retention and governance practices
  • Lead client-facing security questionnaires, audits, and due diligence processes
  • Partner with U.S. Venture's corporate information security team to align on corporate policies, share intelligence, and coordinate security initiatives

Internal Technical Support
  • Oversee the Help Desk function, ensuring internal teams have the tools and support they need to be productive
  • Own internal IT operations, endpoint management, and end-user experience

Vendor & Budget Management
  • Manage vendor relationships for cloud services (GCP), security tooling, and operational platforms
  • Own contract negotiations and renewals for tooling within the operational domain
  • Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps discipline

Competencies
Technical
  • Cloud infrastructure architecture and operations (GCP preferred)
  • Production environment management, monitoring, and observability tooling
  • Data platform infrastructure and familiarity with modern data and AI/ML operational patterns
  • Network security, identity and access management, and vulnerability management
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
  • Cloud-native architectures and infrastructure-as-code

Business & Operational
  • Compliance program management and framework evaluation
  • Data governance and multi-tenant data management practices
  • Vendor and contract management
  • Budget management and cloud cost optimization
  • Client-facing communication on security and compliance topics
  • Risk assessment and mitigation

Behavioral
  • Leads through the team rather than around them: sets direction, removes obstacles, and develops leaders rather than doing their work for them
  • Communicates complex technical and compliance topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders and clients
  • Builds repeatable processes rather than relying on heroics
  • Track record of growing technical leaders, not just managing them
  • Works across organizational boundaries with engineering, product, enterprise integrations, and corporate infosec

Additional Job Responsibilities
  • Cultivate U.S. Venture's values while inspiring, empowering, recognizing, and guiding team members
  • Live our values of High Performance, Caring Relationships, Strategic Foresight, and Entrepreneurial Spirit
  • Find A Better Way by championing continuous improvement and quality control efforts to identify opportunities to innovate and improve efficiency, accuracy, and standardization
  • Continuously learn and develop self professionally
  • Support corporate efforts for safety, government compliance, and all other company policies & procedures
  • Perform other related duties as required and assigned

QUALIFICATIONS
Required
  • 8+ years in technology operations, infrastructure, or cloud engineering, with at least 3 years leading teams that include Director-level or senior technical reports
  • Track record managing cloud infrastructure at scale (GCP preferred)
  • Experience with enterprise compliance frameworks, particularly SOC 2. Familiarity with NIST is a plus; exposure to ISO 27001, FedRAMP, or GDPR is a bonus.
  • Experience leading client-facing security and compliance conversations with enterprise customers
  • Background in SaaS or technology companies serving regulated or enterprise clients

DIVISION:
Breakthrough
U.S. Venture will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H-1B, TN, E-3, F1, CPT, OPT, STEM OPT, visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require U.S. Venture's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States. In general, U.S. Venture does not sponsor candidates for nonimmigrant visas or permanent residency except when there is a specific business need.
U.S. Venture will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed recruitment Master Service Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, U.S. Venture shall reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of U.S. Venture.
U.S. Venture, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or other protected characteristic. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may call Human Resources at (920) 739-6101.
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