United States onlyCompetencies: Critical thinking: ability to access and navigate complex issues, challenges, and opportunities; analyze data from various sources to form comprehensive solutions or outcomes; ability to develop and execute an appropriate course of action to complex situations; ability to recommend a course of action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequencesExecutive mindset: build strong rapport with senior leadership, system level thinking not functional level thinking, synthesizing and summarizing, clarity of communicationEmotional intelligence: ability to read situations and people, understand team and functional dynamics, be seen as a proxy for the CEO and sought out for their guidance, act as an additional set of eyes and ears to identify “early warning’ signals across the company of potential barriers/roadblocks and be able to dispel
Responsibilities
- Act as a thought partner to the CEO and assist on all aspects of company growth, management, and operations
- Deliver successful project management and work with external stakeholders and teams on strategic efforts that require hands-on experience across multiple functional disciples and business organizations
- Research, collect data, and report findings back to the CEO Serve as a sounding board to the CEO and provide advice and feedback
- This role will serve to fiercely protect the CEO’s time by ensuring energy is spent on identified and strategic priorities
- Provide ad hoc support on projects small to large; this could include research, supporting the roll-out of internal initiatives, project management and more
- Analyze opportunities, summarize findings, develop go-forward plans, and act as part of the ongoing team to translate recommendations into results
- Act as a capacity expander for our CEO - you will need to act as his delegate in what can be challenging conversations with both internal and external stakeholders
- Amplify the communication of our CEO by expertly designing and compiling compelling presentations Competencies:
- Critical thinking: ability to access and navigate complex issues, challenges, and opportunities; analyze data from various sources to form comprehensive solutions or outcomes; ability to develop and execute an appropriate course of action to complex situations; ability to recommend a course of action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences
- Executive mindset: build strong rapport with senior leadership, system level thinking not functional level thinking, synthesizing and summarizing, clarity of communication
- Emotional intelligence: ability to read situations and people, understand team and functional dynamics, be seen as a proxy for the CEO and sought out for their guidance, act as an additional set of eyes and ears to identify “early warning’ signals across the company of potential barriers/roadblocks and be able to dispel
Skills and Qualifications
- Education: BA/BS but with a preference for MBA
- 5+ years of overall experience with at least 3 years in an operating role within a high growth technology business or a minimum of 2 years in a strategy consulting role or similar role with a rigorous approach to analytical thinking
- Preferred: 2+ years of SaaS experience
- Experience with data analysis, with a strong preference for those highly skilled in Microsoft Excel
- Proven experience organizing and directing multiple teams and departments
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Extremely versatile, dedicated to efficient productivity
- Experience planning and leading strategic initiatives
- Strong project reporting skills, with a focus on interdepartmental communication
- Experience seeing projects from early ideation and research through to testing and implementation
- Ability to work onsite full-time from our Salt Lake City headquarters
- Exercise schedule flexibility including the ability to engage in critical items after hours
- Travel to conferences and visit prospects and customers based on business needs
