Sr. Strategist, Global Product Commercialization - Hiring Platform

Company: Indeed
Location: Lynchburg
Posted on: May 8, 2022

Job Description:

**SALARY RANGE**

US Remote 89,000 - 133,000 USD per year

**YOUR JOB**

As a Sr Strategist in the Global Product Commercialization (GPC) team at Indeed, you will drive key business decisions, deliver on strategic initiatives and identify value-creation opportunities across the business. You will work closely with Product Managers, Marketing, Partnerships, Sales, Client Success and senior leaders to identify and solve complex and/or ambiguous problems. You will design strategies to grow our products around the globe. Your goals will not be easy to achieve; they should inspire and motivate the team to think big. You will not be compensated based on whether you deliver product features, but whether you have delivered significant business impact.

You will be responsible for assessing and deciding on strategies to launch new products, partnerships and features into the market. This will include owning product feature prioritization for your product, making decisions that will optimize towards growing revenue and improving customer experience. You will create hypotheses for extending the platform's capabilities, validate hypotheses via testing, analysis and research, and iterate from MVP to more extensible versions. You will define requirements, measure key results, track experiments, and frequently rollout new features. You will do data analysis using the plethora of in-house tools specially built for the colossal amount of data Indeed gathers.

You understand how product teams work, are comfortable with a fast pace and managing many concurrent efforts. You have experience working with a large cross-functional team. Most of all, you love solving hard technical, product, and people challenges to make a difference in the lives of other people, whether they be job seekers, employers, or your fellow Indeedians.

You are expected to drive forward workstreams and initiatives with minimal guidance. You are able to communicate effectively up to team leaders & Directors; understanding when, and to whom communications are required. This requires practicing clear, succinct top-down communication that provides your leadership clear direction on decisions required so issues are framed appropriately to the audience's point of view.

Our team is located around the Globe and fully remote. Upon offices reopening post-COVID, all roles on this team will have the flexibility to either return to the office or remain remote. We have daily (virtual) standups, weekly prioritization and OKR reviews, and stay closely in touch.

You will enjoy a casual work environment, flexible hours, and great compensation and benefits. You will wear many hats and constantly learn new things on the job. You will be surrounded by smart, dedicated and nice people. You will be proud of the company's mission and your product's impact.

**RESPONSIBILITIES:**

- Assess and decide on strategies to launch new products, partnerships and features into the market. Work hand-in-hand with Product Management, Marketing, and Product to define the roadmap and develop go-to-market strategies that drive long term product adoption and revenue growth. Identify opportunities to develop and capture cross-product efficiencies.

- Own product feature prioritization for your product, making decisions that will optimize towards growing revenue and improving customer experience.
- Develop and write business requirements for these prioritized product features with technical, customer and Sales/CS facing requirements - validate after build before releasing.
- Lead and own all our Hiring Platform Sales, CS and global commercialization processes. Adapt approach as appropriate to take into account customer size and market nuances. Proactively identify and resolve any operational issues before they arise.
- Structure and execute analysis yourself, whether it's doing queries in SQL/IQL, building an excel model / Python script or using the plethora of in-house tools for analyzing data. Select appropriate methodologies, best practices or models.
- Leverage data to inform product commercialization decisions (e.g. market launches, pricing, product features). Proactively identifies analytical opportunities with minimal input from senior stakeholders (managers, directors and senior directors).
- Present findings and recommendations to business unit leadership. Influence key stakeholders to define and adopt appropriate metrics, goals and processes to achieve business objectives. Partner with leadership (Director+) across Product, Engineering, Sales, Client Success teams to align on key decisions.

**WHO YOU ARE**

**REQUIREMENTS:**

- Minimum 4-year Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Economics, Information Technology, Finance, Mathematics, or a related technical field

- Minimum 5 years experience in Product, Strategy, Management Consulting, Business Operations or other related experience
- Experience making complex data-driven business decisions.
- Experience extracting requirements from customers and stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with large cross-functional teams, including legal and security.
- Ability to drive, contribute to, and communicate solutions to technical product challenges.
- Outstanding data analysis skills.
- Proven leadership skills.
- Passionate about defining and evaluating new business opportunities.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- 3+ years of tech industry experience - e.g., Software as a Service, AdTech, MarTech or HR Tech
- 3+ years of experience using Python or SQL to query, structure, and analyze data
- Highly proficient user of spreadsheet and data analysis software (e.g., Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, Tableau)

**STRONGLY DESIRED:**

- Graduate degree preferred - MBA, JD or post graduate, etc.

- Experience with scaling international products
- HR Tech industry experience is a plus

**WHO WE ARE**

Our Sales force helps transform the hiring process by providing companies an easy and effective way to find the right fit for every hire. We support our Sales team with career development and training from day one.

**OUR MISSION**

As the world's number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We're looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.

(*comScore Total Visits, September 2021)

**SALARY RANGE DISCLAIMER**

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Indeed salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Indeed's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include quarterly bonuses, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), an open Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits.

**EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT**

Indeed is deeply committed to building a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neuro-diversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.

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**FAIR CHANCE HIRING**

We value diverse experiences, including those who have had prior contact with the criminal legal system. We are committed to providing individuals with criminal records, including formerly incarcerated individuals, a fair chance at employment.

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