Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations

The Strategy & Operations team is one of several Central teams under Match Group’s Chief Operating Officer. The team plays a crucial role in shaping the company's future direction and ensuring its long-term success by providing the analytical rigor, foresight, and guidance necessary for long-term growth and sustained competitive advantage. We also bridge the gap between high-level vision and practical execution, ensuring all parts of the organization are working cohesively towards common strategic goals.

Acting as an internal strategy consultant to the executive leadership and the Match Group Brands, the Senior Manager leads or supports priority strategic initiatives across the company, working closely with senior leadership to help define the overarching vision and translate it into actionable plans. This includes conducting consumer, market and competitive analysis to identify new business opportunities, developing comprehensive business cases for strategic initiatives, developing execution plans, and working on ad hoc initiatives.

This leader will drive for results with integrity, seek stakeholder-focused solutions, and bring a balance to long-and short-term priorities.

The Senior Manager reports to the SVP, Head of Strategy and Operations, and partners closely with the other S&O team members, as well as multiple executives, team leaders and teams across Match Group as project work requires. 

Know where you belong. Match Group is a leading provider of dating services across the globe. Our portfolio includes Tinder, Match, Hinge, PlentyOfFish, The League, and others, each designed to spark meaningful connections for singles worldwide. Creating a sense of belonging doesn’t stop at our platforms - it’s the foundation of every team we hire.

When it comes to dating, the connection starts online, but the real magic happens once you meet in real life (IRL).  We think the same is true for creating the best platforms, so we work together IRL in our New York City or Dallas office 3 days/week.

• Market Research: Conducting in-depth research on industry trends, emerging technologies, and market opportunities to inform strategic decisions.
• Competitor Analysis: Analyzing competitor activities, strengths, and weaknesses to identify potential threats and opportunities and gain a competitive edge.
• Identifying Growth Opportunities: Spotting new avenues for growth, such as entering new markets, developing new products/services, or support to the Corporate Development team for pursuing external investments.
• Rapid Adaptation: based on market analysis, provide guidance to executive teams on potential risks and opportunities
• Developing Action Plans: Translating strategic goals into execution plans, kicking off strategic initiatives, and transitioning to the appropriate owners for execution. 
• Collaborating Across Departments: Break down silos by working with various functions and business units to ensure alignment and successful implementation of strategies.
• Align executive sponsors, initiative owners, and functional leads around shared milestones, deliverables, and outcomes
• Support executive reporting and decision-making by surfacing project status, risks, and resource constraints
• Measure Strategic Impact; Market Risk Monitoring:
• Establishing KPIs: Developing key performance indicators (KPIs) and/or OKRs to monitor the progress of strategic initiatives.
• Tracking Performance:  Continuously evaluating the effectiveness of strategies and making adjustments as needed to ensure the company stays on track.
• Risk Monitoring:  Identifying potential market/ external risks that could hinder strategic objectives, assessing their impact, and developing plans to mitigate them.
• Addressing Business Challenges: Acting as internal consultants to support high-priority business challenges across departments.
• Structured Problem-Solving: Applying analytical and problem-solving skills to break down complex challenges and propose actionable solutions.
• Advising Senior Leadership: Providing strategic guidance and recommendations on major business decisions, including mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and new market entry.

• You have 8+ years in strategy consulting, internal strategy, or enterprise program/project management.
• You have experience driving growth strategy design and implementation plans.
• You have solid analytical skills with experience in market and competitive analysis, application of common strategy frameworks to a variety of business scenarios, development of business cases with imperfect data.
• You are an enthusiastic user of AI tools for strategic analysis, data analytics, performance tracking, project management, identifying new trends, and other business uses.
• You have strong leadership and stakeholder alignment experience across various functional, business, and technical teams.
• You have demonstrated ability to manage complex initiatives with no direct ownership, relying on influence and communication.
• You have strong executive communication skills, including comfort preparing high-impact materials for COO/C-suite audiences.
• You are a highly organized self-starter, strategic operator who thrives in ambiguity and fast-paced environment.
• You are a team player who values highly and invests time and energy to build our culture.

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