The Opportunity
Hyatt Hotels Corporation seeks an enthusiastic Director, Strategic Initiatives to join our Growth Strategy & Analytics department. In this role, you will collaborate closely with Growth leadership and cross-functional partners across Development, Brand, Finance, Operations, Commercial, and other teams to translate Hyatt's growth strategy into tangible initiatives and measurable outcomes. You will be instrumental in helping bring Hyatt's strategy to life across the organization by driving alignment, monitoring progress, strengthening execution discipline, and advancing practical AI-enabled capabilities that improve decision-making and operational efficiency. You will be part of a team that is passionate about our purpose, committed to nurturing curiosity and new skills, and building connections across the organization with colleagues, customers, and guests.
The Role
The Director, Strategic Initiatives will help operationalize Hyatt's growth strategy by leading strategic programs from planning through execution. This role will create actionable roadmaps, coordinate cross-functional workstreams, track progress against key milestones and KPIs, and provide executive-ready updates and insights to Growth leadership and senior stakeholders. The Director will also support the Growth organization's AI transformation agenda by identifying, piloting, and helping scale AI-enabled use cases that improve planning, analytics, forecasting, reporting, and productivity.
• Translate Hyatt's long-term growth strategy into actionable roadmaps, workstreams, and strategic initiatives.
• Lead the Growth team's long-range planning process, translating strategic priorities into goals, milestones, tracking mechanisms and identifying resource needs.
• Lead the implementation, execution, and monitoring of programs that accelerate growth outcomes and deliver key milestones.
• Lead high priority initiatives that advance Hyatt's growth strategy, including ongoing development, implementation and ongoing refinement of initiatives.
• Lead market-planning efforts to identify the optimal brand-market fit for Hyatt's brand portfolio, using market, demand, competitive, owner and development insights to inform growth priorities
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, and accountability across teams to ensure organizational alignment and effective delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners, including Finance, Development, Operations, Digital, and other teams, to support resource allocation and execution.
• Track, measure, and report initiative progress against KPIs; proactively identify risks and drive mitigation plans.
• Prepare executive-ready updates, reports, and insights for Growth leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Partner with teams to identify AI use cases that improve strategic planning, analytics, forecasting, reporting, and productivity, supporting the pilot-to-scale process for successful solutions.
• Champion practical AI adoption by helping Growth teams automate, simplify, and modernize processes through AI tools.
• Foster innovation and best practices in growth initiative execution, incorporating external market and competitive insights.
