Senior Data Strategy & Operations Manager, Justworks
$167.5-184.3k
Business operations platform
Job no longer available
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$167.5-184.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- You are a systems thinker with a natural ability to see the bigger picture and break it into actionable, scalable processes
- Self-driven and relentlessly curious, you are motivated by the challenge of solving complex problems and continuously improving
- You thrive in high-performing environments, bringing clarity and structure to ambiguity while inspiring collaboration across diverse teams
- With a passion for building systems that empower others, you are driven to contribute to meaningful, impactful work
- Experience: 7+ years in strategy development, analytics, or operationalization, with a focus on data initiatives. Experience in SaaS/B2B environments preferred
- Data Acumen: Proficiency in SQL, Python, and modern BI tools (e.g., Snowflake, Looker, Tableau), with a strong understanding of the data landscape, emerging trends, and best practices
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, lead cross-functional teams, and drive organizational change
- Analytical Skills: Exceptional strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record of driving effective outcomes while identifying and eliminating inefficiencies
- Communication & Operational Efficiency: Skilled at cutting through noise to deliver clear, concise messages and aligning processes to reduce wasted motion while focusing on high-impact initiatives
- Adaptability & Agility: Comfort navigating ambiguity and evolving landscapes, maintaining focus, and driving progress in dynamic environments
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Head of Data & Analytics, you will lead efforts to design and mature the operating systems that underpin our data and analytics strategies
- You’ll work across teams to ensure strategic priorities are executed efficiently and effectively, driving measurable outcomes and organizational maturity
- This role is about operationalizing strategy, aligning stakeholders, and fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making that scales impact and innovation
- Develop Operating Systems: Build scalable systems to streamline the execution of data strategies and the delivery of insights, driving measurable organizational impact
- Strategic Execution: Translate high-level objectives into actionable initiatives, balancing short-term priorities with long-term goals to advance business needs
- Lead Insights Cadences: Establish and manage processes for delivering insights that drive revenue growth, prioritization, and data-driven decision-making
- Stakeholder Engagement: Foster strong relationships across departments, acting as a trusted advisor to ensure alignment on strategy, analytics, and operational best practices
- Bottleneck Resolution: Identify and address inefficiencies within data and analytics processes, implementing solutions that enhance organizational maturity and performance
- Promote Analytics Maturity: Drive a culture of data-driven decision-making by elevating analytics rigor, systems, and processes across the organization
- Performance Metrics & Market Awareness: Define and monitor KPIs to track success, while staying informed on trends in data and analytics to shape strategic priorities
- Ad Hoc Responsibilities: Perform other related responsibilities as needed based on department and/or organizational needs
- As a Sr. Data Strategy & Operations Manager, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization
- Customer focus - builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
- Nimble learning - actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
- Plans and aligns - breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions; stages activities with relevant milestones and schedules
- Business insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's acquisition of
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company values
- Camaraderie: As a growing company, we know how crucial teamwork, higher purpose, and a healthy dose of fun can be to success. Be an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness: We believe in radical transparency. This means being willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. Be curious, ask open questions, and be receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit: They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. We are a team of hardworking individuals with the courage to persevere. Be committed, be earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity: We do the right thing. Be honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity: We make things easy for everyone to understand and do. Be innovative, unafraid of streamlining processes, a clear and concise communicator, and don't overcomplicate solutions.
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
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Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Executive Chair)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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