Sr. Director, Ops Strategy

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WE HELP ONLINE COMMUNITIES THRIVE

Spot.IM’s mission is to create exceptional technology that empowers digital media publishers to develop meaningful and monetizable online communities for their readers within their Owned and Operated webspace. Our enterprise software platform helps the world’s biggest online publishers form independent communities around their distinct content, quickly bolstering their overall engagement and social interactions. We connect millions of unique users a month across leading digital media publishers including Hearst, Sky Sports, Fox News, AOL, Uproxx, IFLScience, US Magazine, and many more. Spot.IM is VC-backed by Insight Ventures, one of the world’s most trusted and successful institutional investors, and we are focused on growing our standout global team and product stack.

Sr. Director, Ops Strategy - What You'll Do:

  • Utilize structured problem-solving skills to develop strategies and lead cross-functional initiatives that will drive company growth and streamline overall processes 
  • Perform both quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand the competitive landscape, market segmentation and sizing, business and financial modeling, and on best operational process implementation to support hypotheses and decisions.
  • Partner cross functionally to determine metrics and ways to measure success, value returned and cost of risk to the business.
  • Be an inspirational leader; build and scale your team to support the long-term strategy and drive a culture of strong performance
  • Partner with each executive and team leader to generate their specific strategies, objectives, and plans to help achieve their goals with consideration for the overall company goals
  • Organize the strategies into presentations and ensure that the plans are being actively monitored by following up continuously with managers and executives and providing support to help proper execution as needed
  • Conduct competitive market research of the digital publishing and technology landscapes and provide data-driven and insightful recommendations and action plans in order to help Spot.IM scale strategically in the market
  • Partner with Spot.IM’s COO to identify opportunities to expand our business through strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and new market penetration opportunities for Spot.IM’s technology platform
  • Participate and assist in investor relations and corp development activities such as BoD preparations, acquisition target identification, due diligence, and other investment and strategic activities

The Skills and Experience You Bring:

  • 4+ years of professional experience with a track record of being able to design a strategy and implement new processes and structures.
  • Strong communication skills and confidence in presenting from one on one conversations to Publishers to large audiences
  • Prior management consulting experience for a top consultancy firm within the technology and/or media spaces OR Venture Capital experience including due diligence and strategic analysis
  • Detail-oriented, positive, and curious mindset with a passion for strategically scaling rapidly growing organizations
  • Excellent knowledge and ability to analyze markets and companies including technology & product trends
  • Ability to understand the connection between strategy development and execution
  • Familiar with financial modeling techniques and valuation methods used by analysts and investors in the technology or media sectors, and a thorough understanding of key industry metrics used by primary stakeholders

The Spot.IM Culture

We offer a dynamic and unconventional work environment that spans from NYC to Tel Aviv, bringing together a diverse group of world class and high-caliber techies, wordsmiths, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers. We empower every individual across our global team to be a catalyst for change and strive to create a work environment where you can have the utmost autonomy over your role and projects, from start to finish. If you want to join an innovative tech company where you can challenge yourself, have the freedom to own your work, and make a lasting impact, then you have a spot within our growing community!

Spot.IM is committed to building diverse teams and upholding an equal employment workplace that is free from discrimination. We hire amazing individuals regardless of their race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, medical conditions, genetic information, disability, or Veteran status.

Ready to save the digital publishing industry? Join us at Spot.IM.

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