Strategic Initiatives Lead

About the Role

This role will lead APU (Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) strategic initiatives, pushing the boundaries of our product offerings via strategic unlocks. You will understand and size the opportunities in our portfolio and P&L to recommend actions and partner with central and cross-functional teams to lead on implementation.

From expanding our demand use-cases to launching new products and achieving cost leadership, you will work closely with our core territories teams to enable growth and boost business impact.

We are looking for an individual who has strong operational and analytical skills, as well as strategic business sense and stakeholder management. This is a key position that can have a big impact on business and change the way people move in our countries. We are currently operating in 40 cities in APU, and we have a lot of exciting projects going on!

What the Candidate Will Do

• Strategic Ownership: Proactively identify business needs and issues. Prioritize among projects to define the best path to meet strategic objectives and execute against it
• Business Acumen: Translate insights from operational and financial metrics into strategy and action plans. Develop and apply understanding of the levers that move our business
• Problem Solving: Identify the root cause of risks and opportunities, propose multiple, actionable solutions, and weigh tradeoffs to recommend best approach
• Process Optimization: Execute, optimize, and scale core analyses and processes across [the region] and beyond, regularly reviewing performance
• Product Improvement: Propose features or improvements that could enhance the experience on and efficiency of our marketplace, measuring their impact and prioritizing them, in order to advocate for their development. Collaborate with Product teams around the world to execute new launches in [the region]
• Stakeholder Management: Lead cross-functional initiatives by building close relationships with global and local partners across operations, marketing, customer support, product, policy, and legal

Basic Qualifications

• Education: We welcome people from all backgrounds to apply
• Entrepreneurial mindset: all-hands-on-deck
• Knowledge of investment assessment / sizing
• Years of Experience/Industries: seven or more years of professional experience.
• Data-Driven Mentality: Make strategic decisions based on data analysis and interpretation. Experience getting in the weeds of data, balanced with the ability to see the big picture
• Communication: Spanish and English proficiency. Demonstrated experience interpreting and presenting data to various audiences in an engaging and comprehensive, yet succinct manner
• Teamwork: Demonstrate optimism, respect others, and work well in a team. Ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds and responsibilities. Maintains healthy working relationships, even in disagreement
• Executional Excellence: Ability to optimally manage and prioritize complex operations that require the support of peers and other teams, and deliver results in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, while maintaining high-quality work standards
• Planning & Organization: Ability to plan complex or multi-faceted projects with cross-functional teams, defining timelines, deliverables, interdependencies, and resource allocation