Senior Growth Strategist, Fastly
$113.2-166.5k
Edge cloud platform
Job no longer available
Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$113.2-166.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- 5 - 7 yrs experience in a strategic role (consulting, strategy, product, etc.) 8+ yrs total experience
- Technology company experience: do not need to be a technologist, but need to be able to connect our innovations to business opportunities in partnership w/ product and GTM partners
- Structured problem solver: ability to bring clarity to ambiguity by structuring problems to isolate essential components and identify signal from noise
- Big picture thinker: ability to see the forest from the trees, connecting the dots across functions and time horizons to form cohesive strategy
- Analytics chops: ability to build quantitative models to validate business hypotheses and scenarios
- Ability to drive projects: developing problem statements, establishing project plans, identifying key deliverables, and executing
- Strong business partner: ability to understand objectives of partners and collaborate to achieve results
- Humility: ability and desire to create leverage from the insights of others. Desire to serve, confidence to act
- Agility: ability to deliver value iteratively and willingness to fail fast
- Integrity: desire to do the right thing the right way
Desirable
- Enterprise B2B SaaS experience
- Strategic planning experience, ex: building product revenue forecasts
What the job involves
- Support quarterly business reviews and annual planning processes with analysis of business performance
- Driving insights into underlying mechanisms behind performance and exposing opportunities and challenges to growth
- Conduct primary and secondary research to evaluate business hypotheses and investment theses
- Improve our understanding of market needs, key segments, trends, and competitive landscape
- Partner with product teams to build business cases for new product initiatives
- Provide an understanding of the opportunity size and build revenue models in partnership with product, finance, and sales
- Support building of board and investor decks through concise articulation of the product strategy
Our take
Internet users around the world have come to expect personalized, real-time digital experiences, but delivering these quickly and securely, while maintaining quality, can be a difficult task for businesses.
Fastly enables the companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users — improving the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands, and enabling clients to focus on growing their businesses.
The company has helped several high-profile businesses, including Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, EPIC Games, and more. Its offering is well-regarded in the space, demonstrated by it being named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023 report.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES F
Jul 2018
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $259m
Company benefits
- Parental support and beyond: We support our families by offering generous time off for parental leave. And beyond that, we work hard to build a culture that allows for all employees to have the life outside work that they desire year round.
- Health and wellness: Your well-being matters here. Our health plans offer a variety of options, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, mental health resources, and more.
- Invest in your future: We offer 401(k)/retirement plans, employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP), and reimbursements for learning and development programs — so we can support your ongoing growth and success.
- Keep learning and growing: Helping people go further means nurturing their talent. Through annual reimbursements for employee learning activities, regular hangouts and advice from our Senior Staff, talks from industry leaders, and cultural events — we offer tons of opportunities for people to learn. And we’re always looking to grow as a company, too: we collect employee engagement and experience data annually and leverage our Employee Experience Champion Network to understand employee feedback, so we can keep improving.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kip Compton
(CEO)Kip joined the Fastly team in 2024 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2025. Prior to this, he was an SVP of Strategy & Business Development/Networking at Cisco.
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