Strategy And Operations Associate

Summary

Join Placer.ai, a high-growth, big data pre-IPO tech company, as a Strategy & Operations Associate. You will play a critical role in driving strategy and implementation of key initiatives across the business, working closely with executive leadership on high-visibility projects. This position offers significant autonomy and growth opportunities within a fast-paced environment. Success requires strategic thinking, analytical skills, resourcefulness, and a proven track record of managing multiple projects independently. You will contribute to identifying growth opportunities, evaluating the competitive landscape, implementing strategic proposals, and building analytical insights to monitor business performance. The role involves working on complex cross-functional projects and contributing to a central business voice for cross-functional needs.

Requirements

• Proven track record of leading and influencing executive audiences (e.g., VP and higher) on high priority initiatives
• Proven track record of building strategy for and implementing highly cross-functional initiatives, and measuring success in fast-paced test and learn environment
• Top tier quantitative and qualitative analytical skills and first principle thinking
• Ability to track and manage several projects simultaneously
• High EQ
• Desire to thrive in ambiguous environment as a motivated self-starter
• English fluency at the business level is a requirement, both in written and verbal communication
• Bachelor's degree from a top university, ideally in mathematics, economics, finance, or similarly analytically rigorous program; MBA from top university a bonus
• 3+ years of work experience; minimum of 1 year in management consulting, private equity, or investment banking at a top firm required

Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate and help prioritize new short, medium, and long-term growth opportunities
• Evaluate competitive landscape and develop strategy to address ongoing changes in the market
• Run and own large, complex cross functional projects and provide support with functional-specific projects with functional-specific projects
• Implement strategic proposals and put in place rigorous tracking and evaluation metrics
• Build analytical insights to help set and monitor performance goals in the business
• Run business reviews to provide transparency across the executive team
• Create a central business voice for cross-functional needs (e.g., input to product roadmap or evolution in customer journey)
• Given the speed of the organization’s growth, this team will often own and build ad hoc projects related to growing the business (e.g., M&A)

Preferred Qualifications

Startup experience preferred, ideally in B2B SaaS or DaaS

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Fully remote