Strategy & Corporate Development Manager, Justworks
$137.5-151.3k
2+ days a week in office
Business operations platform
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Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$137.5-151.3k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- You see the bigger picture, but aren’t afraid to roll your sleeves up and get things done
- You have an inquisitive mindset, but are a generalist that is drawn to multiple aspects of a business, including go-to-market strategy, business operations, and our competitive position in the marketplace
- You are a self starter who is comfortable working with limited oversight, and are eager to partner with cross-functional stakeholders to help drive our growth initiatives
- You are eager to build relationships and partner with our senior leadership team, and are comfortable with operating in multiple time horizons
- You have 5-7 years experience working in management consulting, investment banking, strategic planning, and/or within an internal strategy & corporate development team
- You are worked alongside senior leadership, and are comfortable with having direct conversations and sharing your perspective
- You have experience with bringing strategy to life, and operationalizing it
- You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with an aptitude for data-driven storytelling
- You are analytical in nature, and like to use research and data to inform decisions
- You are highly collaborative and can pivot your approach to get to the best collective outcome
- You are a generalist who can quickly shift mindsets to support many aspects of the business
What the job involves
- There is an opportunity for you to join Justworks as a Corporate Strategy Manager on the Strategy and Corporate Development team, and help drive our business into the next phase of growth
- Lead complex, cross-functional workstreams with multiple stakeholders: Directly support new growth initiatives that capitalize on the business’s competitive position, diversify our revenue stream, and align with our long-term vision
- Shape corporate priorities in collaboration with leadership: Support and drive the strategic planning process and act as a trusted advisor to the business’s executive leadership team and relevant stakeholders during strategy formulation, development, and execution
- Effectively communicate strategic principles & priorities: drive alignment throughout the organization inclusive of board members, senior leadership, key stakeholders and divisional management
- Shape corporate priorities in collaboration with leadership: Own and drive strategic programs that directly support our CEO, CoS, and other members of our senior leadership team
- Macro & Economic Analysis: Continually evaluate new market trends and competitive opportunities/threats, with detailed analysis and recommendations to accelerate advantages or bolster gaps
- Commercial & GTM Strategy: Partner with go-to-market leaders and stakeholders to help define and improve our GTM strategy and directly work with Revenue leadership to to drive necessary organizational change
- Corporate Development Work: Directly support any inorganic growth initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships
- Team & Culture Carrier: Establish team standards for insight communication and synthesis. Coach peers and contribute to the advancement of Strategy & Corporate development practice
- As a Corporate Strategy Manager, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization
- Business Insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
- Strategic Mindset - anticipates future trends and implications accurately; articulates credible pictures and visions of possibilities that will create sustainable value
- Plans and Aligns - breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions; stages activities with relevant milestones and schedules
- Initiative and Motivation - identifying what needs to be done and doing it before being asked or before the situation requires it
- Teamwork and Communication: Putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
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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Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
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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