Director, Strategy & Operations
Flex
Flex is an early-stage, remote-first FinTech startup that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2023 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! We enable our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing in 2023. Will you be a part of the team?
As a Director reporting into the Executive Office, you will drive high-impact projects that impact the whole of Flex, developing the foundation/framework for major initiatives and processes and ensuring the work takes root throughout the organization. This work will involve close collaboration with the CEO and Co-founder, and broad exposure across all levels of leadership in the organization (aka: your partners in implementation). You can expect a uniquely dynamic portfolio of work, with representative projects including:
- Setting and communicating long-range strategy
- Translating strategy into near-term company and departmental goals
- Investigating new market opportunities; securing funding and assembling the teams for those we plan to pursue
- Ensuring we have the right rituals and data to verify that we are allocating our resources against the highest ROI opportunities in a systematic and bottom-up (rather than ad hoc and top-down) way
- Being the go-to for special initiatives that need a smart, entrepreneurial problem-solver to lead the charge
This is a small but high-powered team with unique visibility and access. You’ll have a broad and constantly evolving portfolio, with the chance to inform some of our most important business decisions (e.g., new market entry, acquisitions, strategy and goal definition). Your work will naturally expose you to the Leadership Team, colleagues in other departments, and external partners, providing hands-on experience of what it takes to lead and operate a world-class consumer payments company. Your manager will be intensely focused on your development, and how to make Flex an accelerant for your skill-building and career. |
Requirements:
- Ideally ~10 years of relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking; management consulting; strategy, strategic finance, biz ops, or chief of staff function at high-growth start-up)
- Direct work (or advisory experience) with a high-growth tech/fintech company preferred
- Entrepreneurial - finds the messiness of 0-to-1 building exhilarating
- Strong conceptual facility; extremely fast thinker
- Comfort “fog sculpting,” making amorphous projects tractable
- Well honed interpersonal skills; able to drive results through others without compromising relationships and rapport
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced (and at times chaotic) environment
- Strong bias for action
- Obsessive attention to detail; high bar for your own work product
- Superior communication skills (e.g., memos, verbal presentations)
- Advanced financial modeling skills
The national pay range for this role is $207,000-$230,000 in base salary. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience aligned with Flex's internal leveling guidelines and benchmarks.
Life at Flex:
- Competitive pay
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k) + company stock options
- Unlimited paid time off with a PTO minimum + 13 company paid holidays
- Parental leave + IVF and adoption support
- Flex Cares Program: Non-profit company match + pet adoption coverage
- Free Flex subscription