Strategy and Operations Manager - New Verticals

Title: Strategy and Operations Manager - New Verticals
Duration: 6+ months
Start Date: 1/3
 
Location: New York or San Francisco
Onsite/Hybrid/Remote:  Hybrid 
 
THIS IS A W2 CONTRACT 
 
 
Job Description:
About the Team
The New Verticals team is expanding the business to convenience, grocery, and retail. This role sits within the Convenience GM team, which focuses on providing convenience delivery through third-party partnerships like Walgreens to our consumers. Our mission is to build the product into every person's favorite way to shop for convenience items and the preferred platform for every convenience partner.
 
About the Role
We're hiring an Associate Manager Extern, New Verticals (Strategy & Operations) (temporary externship for 6 months) for the Convenience GM team. In this role, you will become our expert on the convenience merchant market, defining sales strategy to continue expanding our partnerships, and driving merchandising and marketing initiatives to ensure partners succeed. You will work with Business Development, Marketing, Finance, Ops, and Data Science teams to find the best merchants and help them mutually succeed. You will report into a Manager on the Convenience GM team in our New Verticals Strategy & Operations organization.
 
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Develop the strategy for growing our local merchant partnerships.
• Figure out how to get from A to B... then actually make it happen.
• Create SQL data analysis and use data to identify and activate important merchant partners and markets.
• Work with a team, including partners in marketing, product, policy, and operations, to build these new strategies and processes for local convenience.
• Run tests and scale insights.
• Embrace the challenge of having multiple paths forward and no right answer.

• You're equally comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot.
• You don't hesitate to get in the weeds and operate at the lowest level of detail, but you're just as comfortable thinking long-term and inspiring a team.
• You're unafraid of uncharted territory.
• Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you excel in new environments.
• You like data.
• You let data win arguments, and you're comfortable pulling and modeling large datasets.
• You are excited to use (or learn) SQL in your role.
• You're an operator.
• You have a talent for managing complex projects, converting high-level goals into action, and converting insights into scalable processes.
• You have 3-5 years of experience in operations, technology, consulting, strategy, business development, banking, analytics, high-growth or early-stage startup experience or related experience.