Lead EQT's STAQ team to manage the Special Project Case pipeline: intake, prioritization, scoping, architecture governance, delivery handoffs, value realization, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement while developing the team and managing budget/capacity.
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Position Objective
The Director, STAQ leads the team responsible for EQT’s Special Project Case (SPC) pipeline — the “Innovation Engine” that turns business ideas into delivered technology and process improvements. The role owns intake, prioritization, scoping, solution-architecture governance, and value realization across a portfolio that serves every EQT business department. The ideal candidate is a delivery-minded leader who is comfortable with technical projects and oil & gas business applications, sets clear priorities against finite capacity, and builds a high-performing team and a culture of continuous improvement.
Essential Duties
- Strategy & portfolio: Develop and maintain the STAQ strategy — project prioritization frameworks, value-realization tracking, and portfolio management — so EQT focuses on its highest-value initiatives.
- Pipeline ownership: Own the SPC pipeline end to end — intake, triage, scoping, prioritization, development hand-off to IT delivery teams, documentation, and post-implementation lookback.
- Cross-functional governance: Lead recurring cross-functional Special Project Reviews with business departments and internal team standups and architecture-collaboration sessions to align priorities and unblock delivery.
- Architecture & quality: Govern solution architecture and data-quality standards so the pipeline stays reliable, fast, supported, valuable, and clean (the Innovation Engine scorecard).
- People leadership: Lead, coach, and develop the STAQ team (Business Process Operations Manager and Business Process Engineers); foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
- Budget & capacity: Develop and manage the STAQ budget and capacity plan; balance incoming demand against the standing backlog and available staffing.
- Stakeholder alignment: Communicate with executive and cross-functional stakeholders to align department portfolios, delivery priorities, and enterprise strategy; steward STAQ’s knowledge base and operating standards.
- Continuous improvement: Research and evaluate emerging technologies (automation, analytics) for business applicability and pursue continuous improvement of the pipeline and its supporting infrastructure.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of combined experience in technology delivery, business operations, and/or process improvement, including team leadership
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical or quantitative field (e.g., Engineering, Computer/Data Science, Information Systems, or Business). An engineering degree is beneficial but not required.
- Experience delivering technology programs or products from inception through delivery to post-launch.
- Demonstrated ability to gather requirements, define project scope, and translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Demonstrated understanding of data structures, analytics, and solution architecture (conceptual fluency required; hands-on engineering not required).
- Proven ability to coordinate, organize, lead, and develop teams, and to manage competing priorities across many stakeholders.
- Comfort working on technical projects and with oil & gas business applications, with a strong understanding of how the business works.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing or leading Salesforce-based business processes and custom solutions.
- Experience with data tools, pipelines, and analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI, Databricks).
- Engineering and/or operational experience in the oil & gas industry (beneficial, not required).
- Experience leading a portfolio, delivery, or business-process function.
- Familiarity with EQT’s “Way We Work” operating model (Programs, Utilities, Insights, Sessions, and Knowledge).
Selected incumbent will be placed into the position that best suits their abilities and experience level.
EQT Corporation and its subsidiaries is an Equal Opportunity Employer -- Disabilities/Veterans.
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