Principal Business Operations & Strategy Manager

4 Days ago • 6 Years +

About the job

Summary_{By Outscal}

This role involves driving mission-critical initiatives across multiple teams, partnering with executives, and building analytical systems. You'll need strong analytical skills, experience in product/project management, and the ability to build relationships.

Business Operations & Strategy drives mission-critical initiatives across multiple teams at Scale. As a Principal on the team, you will support product, engineering, sales, marketing, and core operations by providing planning, analytical, operational, and strategic support. We are looking for hard-charging generalists who combine analytical rigor and an obsessive focus on impact with an empathetic interpersonal style. We want you to bring your deep experience driving exceptional outcomes to Scale - if you enjoy solving hard problems and building strong teams and relationships while doing it, we'd love to hear from you!

You will:

Partner with, influence, and support the Scale executive team as we tackle the most difficult decisions in the business
Drive cross-functional efforts to help drive high-priority outcomes across all business units
Design, manage, and iterate on the operational and analytical systems and processes that make Scale hum
Help incubate, seed, and scale new teams
Tackle ambiguous, open-ended questions, plus quickly develop and iterate on a solution
Identify and produce analyses that propel Scale's growth and evolution as a company
Eventually spin out to take on full ownership of a given role, team, or opportunity in Scale

Ideally you'd have:

A penchant for digging deep into data, thinking from first principles, and iterating quickly to deliver results
A strong orientation toward outcomes, and a history of being scrappy when it counts
Experience in product or project management, taking projects from conception to launch
An easygoing interpersonal style and ability to build trusting relationships with a wide range of people
A history of developing lightweight processes and getting them adopted
Excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical skills

Nice to haves:

6+ years of experience in a highly strategic, analytical and operational role within a rapidly growing company
2+ years consulting (McKinsey, Bain, or BCG preferred), investment banking, private equity, or hedge fund experience
Top MBA
Experience with SQL or a willingness/aptitude to learn