Director, Strategy

Braven • New York, NY

5h • $95,900 - $139,100 • Hybrid

About The Position

Braven is seeking a Director, Strategy to work with leadership to set and monitor the organization's overall strategic direction and lead strategic projects crucial for short-term and long-term financial, operational, and scale goals. This role involves leveraging strategic and analytical strengths to design and own a portfolio of impact-driving strategic projects, leading cross-functional teams, and managing external consultants. The ideal candidate is comfortable with ambiguity, operates with discretion, and takes initiative. This position is part of the Insights & Strategy team and reports to the Head of Insights & Strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Fluency in Excel/Google Sheets and SQL
• Proficiency in designing and building dashboards and visualizations for business end users and/or organizational leaders (Tableau preferred)
• Extensive experience writing and presenting compelling data-driven stories, arguments, and narratives for internal and external audiences
• Authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

• MBA and/or experience in strategy consulting
• Proficiency in Google Suite, Slack, and Jira
• Proficiency in Salesforce
• Proficiency in Python or R
• Highly entrepreneurial - someone who is curious and can take initiative, with a capacity to independently think holistically and strategically
• Skilled at building trusted and credible relationships with multiple stakeholders. You seek to understand others’ problems and use your own perspective to solve problems together.
• Ability to make complex tasks simple for yourself and others by applying clear logic and processes to component steps
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills, which allow you to manage your own time and energy and seek the right help to complete multiple projects well and on time.
• Learner’s mindset, which you use to master new tools, software, and ways of working.
• Effective at mentoring and coaching team members and helping them develop professionally
• Your experiences have informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with or for Braven’s student population.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of strategic initiatives and projects directly alongside executive leaders, ensuring alignment with Braven’s business and program models. Example projects include evolving Braven’s regional and central business units and developing & executing a new change management framework.
• Collaborate with the executive team to identify and evaluate new business opportunities and partnerships that align with Braven’s strategic goals.
• Lead working groups that drive the strategic plan to execution, codify decisions and next steps, report progress to Braven’s leadership, and make recommendations for unlocking.
• Establish and achieve key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the success of strategic initiatives.
• Design, build, and manage a system to document, cascade, and monitor Braven’s most important metrics across program and organizational health.
• Own the build, rollout, and maintenance of Braven’s regional and organizational health dashboards and other department-specific dashboards to monitor KPIs.
• Support the planning and facilitation of two leadership bodies at Braven: Central Leads (c-suite direct reports of the CEO) and One Braven (broader leadership group). Example activities include planning and executing stepbacks, maintaining the knowledge base for both, preparing agendas, and creating content.
• Facilitate, project manage, and lead aspects of multi-year and annual planning processes.
• Provide ongoing thought partnership and data-driven decision support for the Alignment Team (Braven’s leadership team).
• Use AI in responsible, smart, and human-valuing ways to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your work.

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 days per year)
• $25,000 in lifetime Carrot benefits for fertility, family-building, and hormonal health
• Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month
• Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents
• A one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director