Vice President, Business Enablement

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.

The IT function works to accelerate business growth through ensuring that the company’s operations run efficiently and effectively, ultimately enabling the achievement of company goals.

Vice President, Business Enablement

Position Summary

The Vice President of Business Enablement is a senior leadership role within the CIO organization, responsible for bridging the gap between business strategy and technology execution across the enterprise. This leader partners directly with business unit executives to understand strategic objectives, translates those objectives into a coherent technology strategy, and ensures that investments in enterprise applications, analytics, and artificial intelligence drive measurable business outcomes.

This role serves as a key orchestrator of the company’s technology investment governance process—ensuring the right initiatives are funded, prioritized, and delivered in alignment with enterprise-wide goals. A critical dimension of this role is leading business transformation and process redesign efforts, ensuring that technology deployments are paired with the organizational and process change required to realize their full value. This is a highly cross-functional role requiring both strategic acumen and the ability to lead diverse, matrixed teams through ambiguity and change.

Key Areas of Responsibility

1.  Business & Technology Strategy Alignment

• Partner with C-suite and business unit leaders to develop, document, and evolve the enterprise business strategy, translating it into a clear, actionable technology roadmap.
• Lead the development of multi-year technology strategies that directly support business goals, including growth, operational efficiency, customer experience, and competitive differentiation.
• Maintain an up-to-date view of the business strategy landscape and proactively identify technology opportunities or risks that should influence planning cycles.
• Facilitate executive-level strategy sessions, producing clear documentation of business priorities, capability gaps, and enabling technology initiatives.

2.  Business Transformation & Process Redesign

• Partner with business leaders to identify and lead enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, ensuring that technology investment is preceded by clear process thinking and outcome definition.
• Champion business process redesign as a discipline within the organization—driving rigorous analysis of current-state workflows and facilitating the design of optimized, technology-enabled future-state processes.
• Establish a structured approach to process improvement and transformation, including methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, or design thinking, applied consistently across business enablement engagements.
• Ensure that major enterprise application implementations, AI deployments, and analytics initiatives are paired with the necessary process change and organizational readiness work to achieve full business value.
• Lead change management strategies for significant transformation programs, working with HR and business sponsors to drive adoption, manage resistance, and sustain improvements over time.
• Maintain a transformation roadmap that tracks active initiatives, key milestones, realized benefits, and lessons learned, providing executive-level visibility into the portfolio of change.

3. Enterprise Applications

• Own the strategic vision and portfolio roadmap for enterprise applications, including ERP, CRM, HRIS, and other core platforms that underpin business operations.
• Evaluate the current application landscape, identify consolidation and modernization opportunities, and drive decisions that reduce complexity while increasing business agility.
• Work closely with platform owners, vendor partners, and business stakeholders to ensure enterprise applications are continuously aligned with evolving business requirements.
• Establish governance standards for application lifecycle management, including selection, implementation, ongoing optimization, and retirement of enterprise systems.

4.  Enterprise Analytics

• Define and execute the enterprise analytics strategy, enabling data-driven decision-making across all business functions.
• Oversee the development and adoption of analytics platforms, data products, reporting frameworks, and self-service BI capabilities.
• Partner with Data Governance and Engineering teams to ensure data quality, accessibility, and trustworthiness that underpins reliable analytics.
• Champion a data literacy culture throughout the organization, working with business leaders to embed analytics into core business processes and decision workflows.

5.  AI Enablement Strategy

• Develop and lead the company’s enterprise AI enablement strategy, identifying high-value use cases that create competitive advantage and improve operational performance.
• Establish an AI governance framework that ensures responsible, ethical, and compliant use of AI and machine learning capabilities across the business.
• Evaluate and manage a portfolio of AI investments—including generative AI, predictive analytics, and process automation—prioritizing based on strategic impact and feasibility.
• Build internal AI literacy and readiness by partnering with HR and business leaders on workforce enablement, change management, and adoption programs.
• Stay abreast of the rapidly evolving AI landscape, bringing forward-looking perspectives and recommendations to the CIO and executive team.

6.  Technology Investment Governance

• Design, own, and continuously improve the company’s technology investment and prioritization process, ensuring a rigorous, transparent, and business-outcome-driven approach to funding decisions.
• Lead the annual and rolling technology portfolio planning cycles, coordinating across Finance, the CIO leadership team, and business sponsors to align budgets with strategic priorities.
• Develop and maintain a portfolio view of technology investments, including ROI tracking, benefits realization, and portfolio health metrics reported to senior leadership.
• Establish intake, evaluation, and scoring criteria for new technology investments, ensuring proposals are grounded in clear business cases with measurable success criteria.
• Champion agile portfolio management practices that allow the organization to adapt investment priorities in response to changing business conditions.

Leadership & Cross-Functional Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of business relationship managers, strategy analysts, and functional leads within the Business Enablement function.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CIO and peer technology leaders, contributing to enterprise-wide IT strategy, organizational design, and operating model decisions.
• Serve as a bridge between IT and the business, fostering a culture of partnership, transparency, and shared accountability for technology outcomes.
• Represent the technology organization in executive business reviews, board‑level discussions, and strategic planning forums, using executive‑level storytelling to connect AI strategy, investment, and outcomes to enterprise priorities and business value.
• Drive continuous improvement in how the IT organization engages with and delivers value to the business.
• Identify and execute high‑leverage opportunities where technology fundamentally improves how the business competes, operates, or scales.
• Ensure operational systems and enterprise analytics are designed as an integrated whole, enabling seamless data flow, trusted insights, and measurable business outcomes.
• Establish and scale a product‑centric operating model across business, data, and AI domains—shifting teams from project delivery to persistent product ownership with clear outcome and value accountability.
• Continuously benchmark enterprise capabilities against industry leaders and emerging disruptors, leveraging external insights, partners, and ecosystems to inform transformation priorities and accelerate execution.
• Serve as an executive arbiter of tradeoffs across business units and technology teams—resolving competing priorities, resetting or stopping underperforming initiatives, and ensuring focus on enterprise‑level outcomes.

Qualifications

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• MBA or advanced degree in a relevant discipline strongly preferred.

EXPERIENCE

• 12+ years of progressive experience in technology strategy, enterprise IT, or management consulting roles, with at least 5 years in senior leadership.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing technology strategy in partnership with business executives at a mid-size or larger organization.
• Proven track record managing enterprise application portfolios (ERP, CRM, or similar) and leading large-scale platform transformation initiatives.
• Hands-on experience building or scaling enterprise analytics capabilities, including BI platforms and data-driven decision-making programs.
• Meaningful exposure to AI/ML strategy, governance, and enterprise adoption—with the ability to distinguish between hype and sustainable business value.
• Experience designing and operating technology investment governance processes, including portfolio management, business case development, and benefits tracking.
• Demonstrated experience leading business transformation programs and applying structured process redesign methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, design thinking) in a technology-enabled context.

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and the ability to connect technology investments to tangible business outcomes.
• Exceptional executive communication and storytelling skills—able to translate complex technical topics for non-technical audiences and vice versa.
• Strong leadership and people management capabilities, with experience building and motivating diverse, cross-functional teams.
• Highly collaborative with a natural ability to build relationships and influence without direct authority across all levels of an organization.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and managing competing priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as TOGAF, SAFe, OKRs, or similar strategy and delivery methodologies is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

In the first 12–18 months, a successful VP of Business Enablement will have:

• Established strong, trusted relationships with key business unit leaders and earned credibility as a strategic technology partner.
• Delivered a documented, executive-approved technology strategy aligned to the company’s three-to-five-year business plan.
• Launched or significantly matured the enterprise AI enablement strategy, with at least two to three funded, high-impact use cases in flight.
• Implemented a repeatable, transparent technology investment governance process that business and IT leaders rely on and trust.
• Elevated the quality and adoption of enterprise analytics, with measurable improvement in data-driven decision-making across the business.
• Established a repeatable business transformation and process redesign capability, with at least one major cross-functional transformation program underway and delivering measurable results.

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This job description reflects the general responsibilities and duties of the role and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all requirements. Duties and responsibilities may be adjusted at any time with or without notice.

The San Francisco/Bay Area base salary range for this full-time position is $259,000 -  366,200, which can vary if outside this location, plus bonus, benefits, and some roles may also include equity. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

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