Senior Director of Growth Strategy
Leads growth-channel strategy and operations, setting targets, building roadmaps, and creating scalable systems to drive measurable acquisition. Requires 6+ years spanning strategy and startup experience, strong analytics, hands-on execution, and cross-functional leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Set goals, define success metrics, establish ambitious targets, and measure progress.
- Define the growth strategy roadmap by diagnosing opportunities and constraints, prioritizing investments, and identifying work to deprioritize.
- Translate the roadmap into executable initiatives with clear priorities, owners, success metrics, and resource requirements.
- Build the operating system needed to scale growth, including processes, tools, and decision-making cadences.
- Help cross-functional teams identify performance gaps, turn insights into action, and remain accountable for results.
- Build, develop, and potentially manage a high-performing Growth Strategy team.
- Partner with executive leadership, sales, enablement, analytics, product, and engineering.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience combining strategy work—such as management consulting, finance, or business operations—with direct startup experience.
- Ability to solve ambiguous problems using first-principles thinking and identify underlying performance drivers.
- Strong analytical skills and comfort using imperfect data to identify gaps, make tradeoffs, and measure strategy effectiveness.
- Exceptional operating ability, from setting direction through detailed execution.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams and maintain attention to important details in a fast-moving environment.
- Exceptional cross-functional leadership, including creating clarity, establishing accountability, and driving decisions without direct authority.
- NYC-based and available to work in person at least 3 days per week, with some remote flexibility.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience and enthusiasm for building and leading a team.
Skills
Growth Strategy, Strategy Development, Business Operations, Financial Analysis, Data Analysis, Goal Setting, Roadmapping, Process Design, Performance Metrics, Cross-Functional Leadership, Team Management
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