Strategy and Business Operations Manager

Job Title: Strategy and Business Operations Manager

Location: San Francisco, CA (Team will prioritize candidates who can work hybrid schedules in the San Francisco office. Otherwise, open to remote candidates.)

Duration: 8 months

Contract Type: W2 only

Pay Rate: $78.16/Hour

Duties:

• Client is seeking a Senior Strategy and Business Operations Manager to join the Cloud Product Group Business Operations team.
• This team is responsible for driving thought leadership, planning, decision and execution processes and communication for the Digital Media Product Marketing & Community team in partnership with a broad set of stakeholder organizations (Product Management, Product Development, Corporate Marketing, Corporate Strategy, Pricing, Branding, Go to Market, and Engagement & Retention).
• In this highly visible role, you will partner with the Product Marketing and Product senior leadership and cross functional leaders to drive the delivery of Creative Cloud strategies.
• You will ensure cross-functional alignment in support of the execution of these strategies across segments.
• Thought leader partnership with the business leaders over Creative Cloud Business
• Managing end-to-end execution of the plan/initiatives
• Leading annual strategic and operations planning
• Managing deliverable/milestone reviews and ensuring cross functional alignment prior to executive reviews
• Planning and facilitating executive reviews including capturing notes and action items
• Proactively identifying and managing risks within projects
• Communicating status and key decisions to stakeholders and executives across various organizations within the client
• Providing guidance and ensuring alignment between executives and your leaders

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of experience in a business operations, consulting, strategy, or product management function required
• Experience developing both high level and operational strategy
• Experience driving change and working on complex cross-functional projects end-to-end and/or in highly matrixed organizations required.
• Motivated, execution-­oriented high-performance individual with ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-­pressure environment
• Proven leadership and experience in identifying and solving broad and complex issues
• Strong analytical and problem-­solving skills
• Proven flexibility and adaptability including ability to think on your feet
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills, and ability to develop strong relationships
• Experience working with high level executives
• Experience with planning process, and/or metrics and measurement desired
• Experience with a SAAS Software Company strongly preferred

Education: MBA a plus