Business Strategy and Operations Director (Chief of Staff)

We are seeking an experienced Director, Business Strategy and Operations. This role requires a highly resourceful individual with strong business judgment, analytical skills, as well as high emotional intelligence and self-motivation. The ideal candidate is prepared to join an exceptional, fast-paced team whose mission is to accelerate business results by providing hands-on strategic and tactical support for needle-moving initiatives across the company. This is a challenging, high-impact role.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to organize, motivate and lead senior stakeholders from across the enterprise

• Drive large scale business-critical initiatives, particularly those that span multiple teams

• Manage projects ranging from strategic planning to operational process design, organizational design and implementation, to Board-level projects and presentations

• Collaborate with key stakeholders across business units

• Make timely, fact-based decisions and provide clear direction to teams

• Identify metrics-driven insights, plus required actions

• Interface and collaborate daily with C-level executives, and key stakeholders across the company locally and internationally

• Operate among multiple “dotted line” reporting structures

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience at a leading strategy consulting firm, including at least two years with senior project and product management experience

• Detail oriented with ability to scale and move quickly to drive results/action

• 10+ years of relevant experience in an operating role, preferably involving online media, digital advertising, or big data analytics

• Entrepreneurial leadership experience, exposure to high growth, mid-sized enterprises

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

• Experience must include demonstrable success and results driven by the candidate

• Proactive, motivated self-starter, with ability to thrive in ambiguity

• BA/BS in a quantitative discipline (e.g. sciences, engineering, economics, accounting, operations research, computer science, business)

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA from a leading school a plus

• Track record of fast career progression, especially through internal promotion

• Strong extracurricular interests, community involvement, or languages are all plusses

• Demonstrated passion for continuous learning, improvement, and sharing best practices

• Tech or media industry experience strongly preferred

• Ability to effectively communicate complex messages to a broad, diverse audience in both written and verbal form

• Ability to create effective end-to-end communication plans

• Curiosity and a desire to constantly innovate

• Self-awareness and the ability to foster collaboration and empowered execution

• Agility and comfort making decisions in a rapidly changing environment

• Highly organized, versatile and dedicated to efficient productivity

• Proficiency in Mandarin(Chinese) is essential.

• By applying to this position, you are required to locate in Taipei, Taiwan.

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