Get to know the Role:
- Scanning the technical and business environment for insights and trends to identify key growth opportunities for the company that will build sustainable competitive advantages.
- Translating organization-level strategies in Tech into actionable functional deliverables and re-allocating the business portfolio to align with market opportunities.
- Driving decision-making and ensuring major initiatives are coherent with the company’s and Technology team’s strategic direction.
- Sustaining the momentum of strategy execution and instilling organizational discipline to realize commitments to strategic plans
The Day-to-Day Activities:
- Develop and/or update the company’s technology strategies on a regular cadence, including identifying and prioritizing major cross-functional initiatives by synthesizing:
- Internal business performance and technical competencies
- External trends (technological, market, customer, competitor, regulatory, etc.)
- Provide inputs and advise the Co-Founders and Tech Sr. Leadership team on critical issues (e.g. strategic initiatives, BU-level plans, and major investments) based on clear issue framing, systems-level thinking, and rigorous analyses
- Bridge business opportunities with product development via a keen grasp of the business imperatives and a clear understanding of the possibilities and/or limitations of technology
- Lead the incubation of experimental business opportunities, including the development of baseline capabilities, the definition of the parameters of success, and ensuring a smooth transition to operations Support Tech leaders on Team-level strategy and facilitate cross-pollination of best practices and approaches
- Align company organizational structure to achieve strategic objectives including identification of internal capabilities to be developed or strengthened
- Execute the tech planning rhythm to ensure follow-through of the functional deliverables via discussions, updates, and action-tracking (e.g. alignment with senior Tech leadership on Tech-wide Objectives and Key Results, including metrics, target setting, and reporting)
- Communicate company Tech vision to stakeholders and support translation into operational reality via various channels (e.g. Co-Founders communications, engagements with senior Tech stakeholders, etc.)
- Assess proposals for all major initiatives to ensure judicious investment of company resources in line with strategic direction
- Advocate focus on achieving sustainable growth by working with BU leads to design and refine pricing and incentives schemes
- Actively and independently engage with company senior executives to identify new opportunities and to seek alignment on strategic priorities
- Influence a high-performance company culture by challenging critical business assumptions and encouraging cross-functional collaboration
- Drive coherence across functions and business units in order to achieve strategic objectives, including product, engineering, operations, and partnerships functions
- Provide a sounding board to company senior tech executives by helping to frame initiatives against wider company tech objectives and external tech/business environment
