Director of Strategy
About us:
A Santa Monica-based tech company, EZ Texting's voice and text marketing platform is revolutionizing how businesses communicate. We are passionate dreamers who believe that technology can make a meaningful difference to any organization's success. Located in the heart of Santa Monica, we've created a unique work-space that the Los Angeles Business Journal has named one of the Top 100 places to work in LA - for the last four years running. Come find out why.
Overall responsibilities:
This is a highly visible role, reporting directly to the Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer of the company and working closely with the rest of the executive team. This role is a data-driven person’s dream, with billions of data points to analyze and derive strategic recommendations from. This person will be driving actionable and tangible recommendations on:
- The company’s investment in data and analytics projects
- Internal operational improvements
- How the company can leverage its data to provide something no one else in the market does.
Responsibilities:
Build internal (big) data products that provide step functions in understanding for analysts, executives, and strategic decision makers.
Apply expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of client data to see beyond the numbers and understand how business users interact with their products and services.
Work closely across functional teams to generate actionable business insights
Influence key stakeholders to implement process improvements and strategic changes and track their performance
Help key stakeholders understand predictive trends that they need to focus on vs. noise that they can deprioritize
Partner with Product, Sales, Finance and the Executive team to solve problems at scale and identify trends and opportunities for the company.
Define new reporting that leads to lasting business improvements
Required Skills:
Have a strong management consulting background (2 to 5 years of experience)
Ability to communicate the results of analyses with product and leadership teams ?
Influential in identifying and addressing business improvements ?and can structure frameworks and kick off an action plan
Experience leading and building a team
Understanding of statistics (e.g., hypothesis testing, regressions)?
High EQ?
Familiarity with SQL
Understanding of R or other modeling language
Experience creating data models with Hadoop and Hive
Experience with Google Analytics
Strong Knowledge of SaaS preferred
Benefits:
- Quarterly bonus, profit sharing, and incentives dependent on performance
- Fully paid medical, vision, dental and life insurance
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid vacation
- And many more additional perks…