You will:- Define the Rhythm of the Business (key business beats) for PDP UCAN, aligned with the Global PDP rhythm of the business (and/or the overall Product rhythm of the business), including business-specific nuances where required
- Drive the execution of the key business beats in PDP UCAN (e.g. annual planning, quarterly business reviews (QBR), joint planning with our product and engineering partners, annual title prioritization and quarterly title prioritization calibration, etc)
- Be a thought partner and “right hand” to team leadership, addressing business operations-related needs and working proactively where business operations can help solve strategic problems.
- Design and deliver solutions that address business operations gaps and needs for the PDP UCAN (e.g. planning and management processes, communication and stakeholder engagement frameworks, change and business transformation management, approach and handling of major cross-departmental initiatives and programs)
- Collaborate with, organize, and advise the PDP UCAN leadership team on setting, refining, and tracking the progress of strategic priorities and initiatives that align with global objectives. This includes responsibility for intake, prioritization, and resourcing across the multiple business units in the wider team, many of which have their own independent portfolios, programs of activity, and projects.
- Collaborate with key business stakeholder units, including financial and strategic planning teams, to ensure alignment on key PDP UCAN strategies, deliverables, and timelines.
- Connect with other Business Operations roles within PDP to share learning and best practices and bring ideas back to PDP UCAN.
- Travel as required, as part of a team with leadership distributed across …
Qualifications- 5+ years of experience in establishing and driving business operational processes across a business unit (e.g. Annual Planning, Quarterly Review, Goals management, resource/capacity planning & management, road mapping, Dependencies management)
- Have a strong business mindset with a good understanding of how a well-oiled “business machine” is supposed to run
- Have directly managed small teams, or had leadership roles in larger teams.
- Have acted as a strategic partner to senior leaders. Attributes include:
- Shine in ambiguous situations
- Navigate between details and big pictures
- Strategic thinker
- Strong organizer
- Operates effectively across many teams
- See around corners (anticipate bottlenecks, escalate effectively, anticipate and make trade-offs)
- Influence over authority to promote alignment
- Strong communicator at a leadership level
- 5+ years of experience in using data and metrics to determine and drive business process improvements
- 8 - 10 years of experience in driving change management across complex organizational structure
- 8 - 10 years of experience in driving complex programs or project management, or consulting experience
- Strong judgment and decisiveness when dealing with timely, deadline-driven, content-related issues and concerns
- Excellent written (memos and presentations) and verbal communication skills; timely communication
- Insatiable curiosity to learn new domains, keep up with industry innovation, and constantly ask ‘why’
Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is