Director, Strategic Planning Louisville, Colorado
AMP Robotics Corp., Portsmouth, VA, United States
AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure and maximize the value in waste. AMP gives waste and recycling leaders the power to harness AI to reduce labor costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. With hundreds of deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe, AMP’s technology offers transformational solutions to waste sortation changing the fundamental economics of recycling.
Headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, the Denver Post and BuiltIn Colorado have recognized AMP as one of the state's top workplaces. AMP has operations and career opportunities outside of Atlanta, Cleveland, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Europe. We’re fostering an environment where passionate individuals can grow and create impact. We seek unconventional thinkers to join our mission to enable a world without waste; at AMP, your contributions have meaning and can spur change. With backing from top-tier investors and national recognition including North American Cleantech Company of the Year, we’re always seeking ways to better our operations, raising the bar on innovation, and looking to collaborate and improve in what we do. Learn more at AMPSortation.com.
Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, the Director, Strategic Planning is responsible for organizing, integrating, and driving execution of complex, high-value initiatives that span multiple functions and stakeholders (e.g., contract compliance, integration).
This role ensures that work is clearly structured, sequenced, resourced, and aligned to enterprise priorities. The Director, Strategic Planning establishes governance, accountability, and visibility mechanisms to ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within scope and budget, and in full compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities Enterprise & Cross-Functional Program Leadership
Establish and maintain structured program governance, project management frameworks, operating rhythms, and reporting cadences across corporate functions.
Organize workstreams across departments, clarifying roles, responsibilities, interdependencies, and decision rights.
Translate business objectives and contractual requirements into integrated project plans, scopes, timelines, budgets, and resource plans.
Drive cross-functional alignment to strategic and operational goals, ensuring priorities are synchronized across teams.
Lead people and resource coordination across functions without direct reporting authority.
Create transparency into program health, dependencies, and trade-offs to enable proactive executive decision-making.
Integrated Project Management & Execution
Lead cross-functional project teams across corporate functions through all project phases of delivery.
Manage cross-functional interdependencies and resolve conflicts to maintain execution momentum.
Facilitate structured status reviews and executive-level reporting, including risks, mitigation strategies, and key decisions required.
Continuously improve program management tools, systems, and cross-functional execution processes.
Risk, Governance & Compliance
Proactively identify cross-functional risks, bottlenecks, and competing priorities; implement mitigation strategies to protect delivery timelines.
Ensure compliance requirements are documented, assigned clear ownership, and tracked to completion.
Maintain disciplined change management and scope control processes across workstreams.
Serve as the central coordination point across corporate functions to ensure clarity of priorities, sequencing, and resource allocation.
Communicate program progress, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior leadership.
Drive structured communication channels to ensure transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making.
Education Bachelor's degree in project management, Business Administration, or related field.
Other Duties Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Experience
12-15+ years of experience managing large, complex projects across multiple functions.
Proven experience leading organizational initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
Certifications:
PMP, PgMP, or equivalent strongly preferred.
Skills
Strong enterprise-level leadership and cross-functional influence without direct authority.
Advanced organizational and systems thinking capabilities.
Expertise project and portfolio management tools and methodologies.
Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
Exceptional stakeholder alignment and negotiation skills.
Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Skilled at managing ambiguity, resolving interdependencies, and driving clarity in complex environments.
Consistently delivers high-impact outcomes on time and within budget.
Builds trusted relationships across all organizational levels.
Operates effectively with minimal supervision.
Working Conditions/Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
Must be able to travel frequently.
Working Location(s)
Remote (within the U.S.)
Travel Requirements
Up to 25% Travel
Compensation
$185,000 - $215,000
Equity Grant The candidate selected for this role will be recommended for a stock option grant commensurate with the position and the candidate’s qualifications.
Equal Employment Opportunity AMP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Applicants who identify with a historically underrepresented group are encouraged to apply. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, upgrading, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.
Benefits Information
Medical – The company covers up 77% to 100% of the premium for Cigna medical healthcare plans depending on the selection. Employees pay the difference in premium if they select a more expensive plan. Up to 75% for dependents.
Dental, Vision, Short- and Long-Term Disability
Life Insurance – The company covers the cost of Basic Life / AD&D 1x Salary, option to purchase additional through New York Life.
Benefits start the day you start
HSA Eligible Health Plans, Employer Monthly Contributions on Dependent and Individual Plans
401(k) retirement plan (non-matching)
FTO – Flexible Time Off
Self-Identification We invite applicants to share their demographic background. If you choose to complete this survey, your responses may be used to identify areas of improvement in our hiring process.
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Do you identify as transgender?
Do you have a disability or chronic condition (physical, visual, auditory, cognitive, mental, emotional, or other) that substantially limits one or more of your major life activities, including mobility, communication (seeing, hearing, speaking), and learning?
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Headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, the Denver Post and BuiltIn Colorado have recognized AMP as one of the state's top workplaces. AMP has operations and career opportunities outside of Atlanta, Cleveland, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Europe. We’re fostering an environment where passionate individuals can grow and create impact. We seek unconventional thinkers to join our mission to enable a world without waste; at AMP, your contributions have meaning and can spur change. With backing from top-tier investors and national recognition including North American Cleantech Company of the Year, we’re always seeking ways to better our operations, raising the bar on innovation, and looking to collaborate and improve in what we do. Learn more at AMPSortation.com.
Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, the Director, Strategic Planning is responsible for organizing, integrating, and driving execution of complex, high-value initiatives that span multiple functions and stakeholders (e.g., contract compliance, integration).
This role ensures that work is clearly structured, sequenced, resourced, and aligned to enterprise priorities. The Director, Strategic Planning establishes governance, accountability, and visibility mechanisms to ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within scope and budget, and in full compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities Enterprise & Cross-Functional Program Leadership
Establish and maintain structured program governance, project management frameworks, operating rhythms, and reporting cadences across corporate functions.
Organize workstreams across departments, clarifying roles, responsibilities, interdependencies, and decision rights.
Translate business objectives and contractual requirements into integrated project plans, scopes, timelines, budgets, and resource plans.
Drive cross-functional alignment to strategic and operational goals, ensuring priorities are synchronized across teams.
Lead people and resource coordination across functions without direct reporting authority.
Create transparency into program health, dependencies, and trade-offs to enable proactive executive decision-making.
Integrated Project Management & Execution
Lead cross-functional project teams across corporate functions through all project phases of delivery.
Manage cross-functional interdependencies and resolve conflicts to maintain execution momentum.
Facilitate structured status reviews and executive-level reporting, including risks, mitigation strategies, and key decisions required.
Continuously improve program management tools, systems, and cross-functional execution processes.
Risk, Governance & Compliance
Proactively identify cross-functional risks, bottlenecks, and competing priorities; implement mitigation strategies to protect delivery timelines.
Ensure compliance requirements are documented, assigned clear ownership, and tracked to completion.
Maintain disciplined change management and scope control processes across workstreams.
Serve as the central coordination point across corporate functions to ensure clarity of priorities, sequencing, and resource allocation.
Communicate program progress, risks, dependencies, and recommendations to senior leadership.
Drive structured communication channels to ensure transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making.
Education Bachelor's degree in project management, Business Administration, or related field.
Other Duties Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Experience
12-15+ years of experience managing large, complex projects across multiple functions.
Proven experience leading organizational initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
Certifications:
PMP, PgMP, or equivalent strongly preferred.
Skills
Strong enterprise-level leadership and cross-functional influence without direct authority.
Advanced organizational and systems thinking capabilities.
Expertise project and portfolio management tools and methodologies.
Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
Exceptional stakeholder alignment and negotiation skills.
Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Skilled at managing ambiguity, resolving interdependencies, and driving clarity in complex environments.
Consistently delivers high-impact outcomes on time and within budget.
Builds trusted relationships across all organizational levels.
Operates effectively with minimal supervision.
Working Conditions/Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
Must be able to travel frequently.
Working Location(s)
Remote (within the U.S.)
Travel Requirements
Up to 25% Travel
Compensation
$185,000 - $215,000
Equity Grant The candidate selected for this role will be recommended for a stock option grant commensurate with the position and the candidate’s qualifications.
Equal Employment Opportunity AMP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Applicants who identify with a historically underrepresented group are encouraged to apply. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including recruitment, hiring, upgrading, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, layoff, recall, and termination.
Benefits Information
Medical – The company covers up 77% to 100% of the premium for Cigna medical healthcare plans depending on the selection. Employees pay the difference in premium if they select a more expensive plan. Up to 75% for dependents.
Dental, Vision, Short- and Long-Term Disability
Life Insurance – The company covers the cost of Basic Life / AD&D 1x Salary, option to purchase additional through New York Life.
Benefits start the day you start
HSA Eligible Health Plans, Employer Monthly Contributions on Dependent and Individual Plans
401(k) retirement plan (non-matching)
FTO – Flexible Time Off
Self-Identification We invite applicants to share their demographic background. If you choose to complete this survey, your responses may be used to identify areas of improvement in our hiring process.
U.S. Standard Demographic Questions How would you describe your gender identity? (mark all that apply)
How would you describe your racial/ethnic background? (mark all that apply)
How would you describe your sexual orientation? (mark all that apply)
Do you identify as transgender?
Do you have a disability or chronic condition (physical, visual, auditory, cognitive, mental, emotional, or other) that substantially limits one or more of your major life activities, including mobility, communication (seeing, hearing, speaking), and learning?
Are you a veteran or active member of the United States Armed Forces?
Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form CC-305
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OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026
Why are you being asked to complete this form?
We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.
Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.
How do you know if you have a disability?
A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability.
Disabilities include, but are not limited to:
Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
Blind or low vision
Cancer (past or present)
Cardiovascular or heart disease
Celiac disease
Cerebral palsy
Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
Diabetes
Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
Intellectual or developmental disability
Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
Neurodivergence, for example, attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
Short stature (dwarfism)
Traumatic brain injury
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