Strategy Lead, Patreon
$152-228k
Offers equity
Monday and Wednesday in-office
2 days a week in office
Funding platform for creatives
Open for applications
Funding platform for creatives
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$152-228k
Offers equity
Monday and Wednesday in-office
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Patreon's mission is to power creators to do what they love, and get paid by the people who love what they do.
Role
Who you are
- Strategy Experience: You have spent 5+ years helping companies make great strategic decisions, partially in a consulting role. You’re energized by untangling complex problems, excel at asking the right questions, and love turning analysis into real-world impact
- Critical Thinking: You ask thoughtful questions, challenge assumptions, and use first-principles thinking to break down problems. You connect the dots across different inputs and craft well-reasoned, structured recommendations. You strike the right balance between speed and accuracy
- Analytical Skills: You are data-oriented and curious, uncovering insights others might miss. You work comfortably with quantitative and qualitative data and consistently identify and close gaps in understanding
- Collaboration: Relationship-building is one of your superpowers. You thrive in cross-functional settings and have a track record of influencing stakeholders across technical and business teams, including Data Science, Research, Sales, Marketing, and Product
- Storytelling: You are an expert communicator with a love for clarity. You distill complexity into compelling narratives, tailoring insights to your audience and using frameworks and storytelling to drive clarity and alignment
- Execution: You are a systems thinker who connects strategy to execution. You notice when processes aren’t working and get energy from creating solutions that make them better
- Leadership: You thrive in ambiguity and are intrinsically motivated to drive better outcomes for the business. You show up as a trusted partner to your manager and cross-functional partners, taking initiative to move things forward
What the job involves
- Patreon’s Strategy team drives decision-making on the company’s most important priorities. We tackle business-critical problems, shape initiatives that move the company forward, and make sure our growth levers, investments, and opportunities are clearly understood and acted upon
- We translate data into insights, insights into strategy, and strategy into action — partnering closely with the COO and teams across the business to turn ideas into measurable impact
- We’re a small, high-impact team known for our curiosity, clarity, and collaboration. Joining us means exposure to the full breadth of Patreon’s business and the opportunity to help shape its next phase of growth
- Shape company-wide decision-making by leading strategic analyses and contributing to recurring forums such as All Hands, Business Reviews, planning, competitive intelligence, and board/investor updates
- Analyze complex business problems to generate insights and identify opportunities for growth and efficiency
- Communicate insights and recommendations through clear, compelling materials tailored to audiences ranging from cross-functional partners to the executive team
- Drive execution and continuous improvement by building processes, coordinating resources, and enhancing systems and ways of working across the company
- Grow your skillset by gaining exposure to company-wide strategy while sharpening your analytics, communication, and operations capabilities
Our take
Creatives face two major struggles in the online space: getting eyes (or ears) on their work, and getting paid for it. Patreon was founded to solve both problems with a platform that would provide a space for creators to host and promote their work, and offer supporters a way to show their support through a regular paid subscription.
Patreon has been a leader in the content subscription space since its founding, but recently has come under pressure from newer rivals such as Substack and Ko-fi. It has maintained its position by shifting its focus from being primarily a marketplace for supporters to find creatives that interest them to being a toolbox for content creators to promote their work. While the site's creatives value this approach it remains to be seen whether Patreon will be able to return to the growth it was enjoying in previous years.
Despite the inroads made by competitors and a troubling global economic outlook making finances tougher for content creators and their supporters, Patreon is still a leader in its space, with over its over 250,000 active creators having made $3.5 billion through the platform. It is going through a period of downsizing to focus on its core business, and is continuing to hire talent to improve its product and expand its marketing efforts.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Commuter stipend
- Training budget
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Stock options
- 401k
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Conte
(CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a degree in Music. Created musical content on Youtube as Pomplamoose before founding Patreon.
Sam Yam
(CTO)Worked in analytics and engineering roles at Yahoo, Ning and Loopt. Previously founded mobile advertising company AdWhirl, which was acquired by Google.
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