Principal, Founder's Office, CommerceIQ
Chief of Staff
$134-201k
+ Stock options and potential discretionary bonuses, subject to eligibility
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
Machine learning and automation platform
Job no longer available
Machine learning and automation platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$134-201k
+ Stock options and potential discretionary bonuses, subject to eligibility
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
CommerceIQ's mission is to empower brands to move from analog to algorithms.
Role
Who you are
- 3-7 years of professional experience in consulting roles with a high level of business acumen, consistently delivering results and navigating multifaceted challenges
- MBA and/or operations experience is required
- Experience crafting successful Pricing & Packaging strategies is required
- Skilled in orchestrating impactful leadership and board meetings, ensuring seamless communication flow, and facilitating effective decision-making
- Ability to create concise decks and write-ups, for complex business situations
- Strong cross-functional leadership experience and the ability to drive initiatives, facilitate special projects, and ensure action items are executed on behalf of the CEO
- Ability to operate at a tactical, strategic, and operational level, and manage projects that do not neatly fit within the organizational chart or that fall between leadership areas of responsibility
- Comfortable serving as an extension of the CEO and information funnel, filter, and facilitator with internal and external stakeholders, including the CEO’s direct reports and Executive Assistant
- Proficient in assessing and prioritizing tasks, identifying any obstacles, and adeptly managing the CEO’s schedule alignment with organizational objectives
- Accomplished in relationship management, skilled at cultivating and nurturing stakeholder, investor, and client relationships
- Ability to serve as a thought partner and strategic advisor to the CEO, standing in on meetings, offering a different perspective, and following up on action items with the team accordingly
- Analytically inclined, skilled at deriving actionable insights and recommendations to inform high-impact decisions
- Adaptable and strategically minded, ensuring the CEO’s brand and reputation are effectively managed in a dynamic environment
What the job involves
- The Principal, Founder's Office is a pivotal role within CommerceIQ, serving as a prominent strategic partner to our CEO
- This position plays a critical role in enabling effective decision-making, overseeing project management, and driving the execution of strategic initiatives across the organization
- The Principal, Founder's Office establishes and maintains the essential organizational and communication framework that allows our customers, employees, and leadership team members to translate the CEO's vision into tangible results, ensuring the achievement of annual goals
- A forward-thinking and visionary individual, the Principal, Founder's Office is committed to long-term planning and projects that pave the way for our organization's growth and the triumph of our CEO
- As a Principal, Founder's Office, you will be the unseen force propelling our CEO's vision forward, wielding the power to influence and impact every facet of our organization, from the boardroom to the front lines
- This role offers a unique opportunity for personal and professional growth, preparing aspiring executives for future leadership roles within CommerceIQ and beyond
- This role allows you to get a birds-eye-view of all roles in a growing startup, offering a view into what a career in each of the roles could be - and a feeder to important leadership positions
- Join us on this transformative journey, where your contributions will shape the future of CommerceIQ
- The role is quite standard in Venture funded companies and has been a platform for many successful execs in the valley
- At CommerceIQ, we believe that the Principal, Founder's Office is a force multiplier; the CEO’s right hand ; a strategic partner that helps build and run a wildly successful business
- You will serve as a critical leader in the following areas:
- Special Projects: An extra set of hands to help with strategic priorities on anything from Product to Growth
- Company Strategy: A strategic advisor and confidant (a highly trusted person with whom to discuss and pressure‐test ideas)
- Business Operations: An organizer to help manage a picture of the priories, projects, decisions, and actions that should be in the brain space of the CEO
- Communications Director: Relay information between executive team members and other staff members. Attend board meetings, provide an overall picture of productivity to executives and stakeholders, and transmit information to department heads
- Strategic Advisor: Provide data analysis and metrics of the company’s productivity to the executive team, and suggest strategic initiatives to improve workflow, teamwork, and budget management
- Program Manager: Determine performance indicators for the company and deliver those metrics to board members
- Chief Coordinator: Manage essential daily tasks that frequently exceed the bandwidth of executive team members, including the facilitation of project coordination and the oversight of business administration in collaboration with department leaders
- Master Organizer: Partner closely with the CEO's Executive Assistant to design and implement a strategic framework that empowers the CEO to focus on high-impact tasks efficiently
- Problem Solver: Wield decision-making power to identify employee issues and provide workable solutions, then communicate only the pertinent details to the executive team and board members, who may or may not follow up with additional direction
- Special Projects Team Leader: Assess the risk, cost, and work required for new initiatives and special projects from the CEO and/or board, as well as facilitate and oversee the project to completion
- Trusted Operator: Manage sensitive and/or confidential information with a high level of discretion
- Expert Facilitator: Manage conversations, synthesize multiple points of view, and align on direction while remaining impartial and professional
Our take
CommerceIQ is an omnichannel eCommerce management platform that leverages machine learning, analytics and automation to increase user sales. By deriving and aggregating in-depth insights from sales, marketing, and competitor intelligence data, its software then generates recommendations and automates actions to fuel growth.
Having started out primarily on Amazon where it’s now an Advertising Partner - partially due to CEO Guru Hariharan’s previous with the online retail giant - the company has since expanded to cover Instacart, Target and Walmart, and has recorded exponential growth in recent years, with both revenue and customers doubling in 2021. Kellogg’s, Nestle, Colgate and Whirlpool are all customers, a fact which would have contributed to a recent investment boost.
Not long ago, CommerceIQ joined the unicorn club and is investing its 2022 capital into accelerating the development of its unified retail eCommerce management platform. With the worldwide eCommerce growth expected to hit $7.4 trillion by 2025, and the company’s position as an aid for legacy companies rather than a disruptor, further success looks increasingly likely.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$115m
SERIES D
Jun 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $195.5m
Company benefits
- Learning & Development - Growth is important. That’s why we provide a dedicated learning budget to support your growth and development
- Competitive Pay - Come join our team and you’ll receive a generous benefit package that takes care of your family and you, including Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance, a 401K and more
- Equity - At CommerceIQ, you’ll have skin in the game with our equity awards. When we win, you win
- Unlimited PTO - We believe in creating an environment that helps you be your absolute best, whether it means taking a break to climb Mt. Rainier or pampering yourself on a cruise
- Work/Life Balance - Every last Friday of the month is off! We know there is a time to work and there is a time to leave work behind. At CommerceIQ, we offer flexible hours
Company values
- Customer Obsession - We delight in bringing value to our customers, helping them transform and focus on what matters most – even if that means challenging them in order to arrive at the best outcome
- Take Ownership & Deliver Results - We do not get stuck in analysis paralysis. We make decisions quickly even with imperfect data. We move fast to capture the advantage of truly unique ideas and test, learn, fail fast, and innovate
- Dive Deep - We operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, and are skeptical when metrics and anecdotes differ. No task is beneath us
- Curiosity & Self Learning - We demonstrate a passion for learning and always seek to improve ourselves. We are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them
- Win as a Team - We are building a long-term company and how we work and play together matters. Teams that have fun together and trust each-other make each other stronger, and are capable of persevering through hard times
- Take Ownership and Deliver Results - We hire owners and we trust them to make the best decisions on behalf of our customers and the company. Owners do not need permission prior to taking action, but also know when to ask for help. Owners own successes and failures
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Articles
Leadership
Guru Hariharan
(CEO)Started out as a Researcher at IBM. Was Manager of Amazon Seller Services and Director and GM of Global Marketplace Experience at eBay.
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