**Company** Alaska Airlines **The Team** Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you. **Role Summary** The Managing Director (MD), Operational Audit is responsible for setting the strategic vision and leading the operational enterprise-level audit and assurance programs (Internal Evaluation Program (IEP) and Quality Assurance (QA)) across Alaska Air Group (AAG). This role reports to the VP, Audit Programs, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Chair of the Safety Committee of the AAG Board of Directors (BOD) and the AAG VP, Safety. As a people leader, the Managing Director, Operational Audit demonstrates deep business acumen and interpersonal skills to develop and maintain effective, ongoing professional relationships with leaders across Air Group to support their efforts to identify, analyze, and solve cross-divisional challenges. The Managing Director, Operational Audit, leverages these relationships to function as a key organizational influencer and change agent, establishing strategic goals and direction for a team of leaders. This team provides strategic counsel to AAG executives and the BOD through expert-level knowledge of systems of internal controls. **Key Duties** + Develop and promote the vision, strategic priorities, and long-term direction of the AAG operational audit team. + Lead a team that provides independent, objective assurance and appraisal services by examining, evaluating, and reporting on AAG’s most complex and important operational processes with the mission to continuously improve AAG’s systems of safety and operational controls. + Oversee the design, development, and continuous improvement of audit policies, methods, and deliverables to ensure a strong, value-added function that acts as an early warning system about key safety and operational risks and positively influences the organization’s efforts to address these concerns. + Influence across the companies and provides strategic recommendations to enterprise leaders. + Develop and maintain strong working relationships and regular communications with key stakeholders (including BOD safety committee and external assessment agencies, such as regulators) to ensure the effectiveness of assurance service delivery and appropriate risk mitigation of identified challenges. + Achieve annual goals and budget targets by effectively managing resources and stakeholder requirements. + Develop people through effective performance management and ongoing feedback, focusing on fostering strategic and systems thinking, development of talent, and succession planning across teams and functions. + Attract, develop, and retain a high-performing team of audit professionals. + Positively influences company culture by demonstrating the highest commitment to Company values through actions, continuous learning, and reinforcement of behaviors. + Internal Evaluation Program (IEP): * In partnership with the VP, Safety, design, develop, and oversee the execution of a risk-based audit plan for IEP that meets the assurance objectives of FAA Advisory Circular 120-59B. + Quality Assurance (QA): * Ensure audits are executed with safety, quality, and compliance at the forefront with a focus on continuous improvement to strengthen the AAG’s processes and controls. **Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills** **Required** + 10 years of progressive leadership experience in risk-based assurance, project management, or controls consulting, such as Internal or External Audit, Compliance, IEP or Quality Assurance. + 5 years of people leadership, including significant experience developing teams and managerial oversight of diverse teams of professionals. + Bachelor’s degree with a focus in aviation disciplines or business administration, or willingness to attain a bachelor’s degree within six years of start date. + Demonstrated ability to swiftly analyze complex business processes and work closely with audit team members and management to identify control gaps and devise appropriate strategies to mitigate risk. + Highly proficient in written, oral, and interpersonal communications and readily able to produce concise, relevant, strategic presentations at the executive and BOD level. + Minimum age of 18. + Must be authorized to work in the U.S. **Preferred** + Aviation Safety Management System experience and program knowledge. + A Master of Arts/Science degree or a Master of Business Administration degree. + Working knowledge of aviation business, including regulatory compliance requirements for Part 121 carriers. **Airport SIDA Badge Requirements** Important notification for employees working at an airport or maintenance hangar: Employees will be required to obtain a SIDA badge provided by the airport authority and maintain good standing in order to keep their SIDA badge. Review theSIDA Badge Requirementsdocument for a comprehensive overview. If an employee does not qualify for a SIDA badge or has their SIDA badge pulled from them, the employee will be terminated. **Job-Specific Leadership Expectations** + Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance, and be remarkable. + Proven ability to leverage business acumen and analytic capability to foster mutually beneficial relationships with business partners, internal and external to AAG, and position the audit team as a positive change agent across all channels. + Success leading cohesive, results-oriented teams and efficiently navigating people and processes through ambiguity, managing and coordinating demands in a fast-paced environment, and accepting ownership and accountability to consistently deliver on audit commitments. **Salary Range** $217,350 - $358,650 / year **Salary Details** The pay range and total target compensation package listed above is the expected pay offered for this position at the start of employment. Your pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, your relevant experience/level, experience level, and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Horizon employees. Alaska/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. **Note:** We don't typically hire at the top of the range. **Total Rewards** _Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status._ + Unlimited confirmed travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air (flight processing fee may apply depending on the company being hired into and the airline being booked) + Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits + Generous 401k match program + Quarterly and annual bonus plans + Equity grants + Generous holiday and paid time off + Lounge membership For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits. **FLSA Status** Exempt **Employment Type** Full-Time **Regular/Temporary** Regular **Requisition Type** Executive **Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on** 8/15/2025 **Location** Seattle - Corporate HQ **Regulatory Information** **Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement** It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment. We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories. We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities. To implement this policy, we will: (1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories; (2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and (3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories. Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA. **Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations** Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn. **A:** Y - T1 **L:** \#LI-B **Need help finding the right job?** We can recommend jobs specifically for you! **Job Locations** _USA-WA-SeaTac_ **Requisition ID** _2025-16634_ **Category** _Corporate & Operations_