Director, Business Operations & Strategy
Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.
Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.
Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.
For more information visit cultureamp.com.
The Opportunity at Culture Amp
At Culture Amp, we're creating a better world of work. We believe that nothing is impossible when a group of talented, kind humans work to build something together. We‘re focused on building a new type of company: a company that truly puts culture first.
This is a unique opportunity to join our BizOps & Strategy team, whose objective is to help Culture Amp scale faster, in service of the company’s mission. By connecting strategy to execution, illuminating the path forward with our leaders, and incubating new capabilities, we accelerate the whole company.
In the past 12 months, the BizOps & Strategy team has played an integral role in owning the company’s strategy system, informing Culture Amp’s long-term strategy, and delivering strategic projects in partnership with the business.
Some of the highlights include:
- Driving the integration of our recent People Analytics acquisition
- Designing and facilitating leadership offsites
- Creating and implementing a global company quarterly business review
- Conducting regional market analysis to sharpen our go-to-market strategy
- Identifying pricing and packaging opportunities
- Crafting a hub location strategy recommendation
Once you’re in the seat, you will:
- Lead and foster the BizOps & Strategy team, continuing to drive a culture of high performance and amplifying the impact of the team
- Own and further develop the strategy system, including our operating rhythm, business reviews, and strategic goal setting
- Create alignment and visibility across all levels of the organisation to our strategic goals
- Provide teams with leverage to execute against strategic priorities by spearheading business-critical projects
- Build trusted relationships with the Exec and senior leadership team, as well as other key stakeholders across the business
- Oversee the delivery of strategic insights to support business execution
What you bring to Culture Amp:
- You have 7+ years experience across consulting or investment banking (MBB or top IB preferred), and exposure to working in a high growth startup or scale-up
- You have successfully led and developed a high-performing and collaborative team
- You can build trust quickly and influence across all levels of the organisation, including with Exec and senior leaders
- You have the mindset of a future COO, and have a propensity for designing pragmatic and right-sized strategy processes as the business grows
- You have high standards for yourself and your team, while also being able to deliver complex projects at pace
- You bring an energetic, problem-solving mentality in tackling challenges and operating in ambiguity
- You have strong commercial acumen, bringing a financial and strategic lens to the team and the company
We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:
- Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
- Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
- Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
- Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
- Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
- Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
- Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
- Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
- 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
- MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
- Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)
Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.
We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.
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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.
We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!
Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it.
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