Strategy Director, Blank Street
United Kingdom
+Equity package
Coffee chain
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Coffee chain
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+Equity package
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reimagine local commerce to better serve their customers, neighborhoods, and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in top tier consulting
- 3+ years at an operating/strategy role at a high-growth company. F&B, consumer products, retail experience is a plus
- Creative problem solver - you think beyond the ‘by the book’ approach
- “Get things done” mindset - ready to roll up your sleeves to deliver output
- Other Notes
- Even if you have not worked in the industry, you have a strong appreciation for consumer products, F&B, hospitality
- You have to be very versatile to do well in this role. There will be constant context switching and parallel work-streams!
What the job involves
- As Strategy Director at Blank Street, you’ll wear two hats: strategic operator and creative innovator
- As a strategic operator, you’ll help guide the UK team to deliver on yearly, quarterly, and monthly goals—helping to set targets, build the plan and drive change where it matters most
- As a creative innovator, your mission is to think BIG and lead our boldest, most transformative projects — those that shape the future of our business beyond the next year, from re-designing the store customer journey to re-imagining our loyalty system
- Your role is to build and deliver new things — taking ideas from 0 to 1, with both creativity and strategic precision
- Reporting directly to the UK President, you’ll work closely with the UK Leadership team while also partnering with the US President, CEO, and key Global Leaders—gaining exposure to every part of the business
- You’ll also lead a talented cross-functional team across Data & Insights, Business Operations, and Customer Experience
- Build the plan: Set clear business targets, prioritise initiatives, and create sharp actionable roadmaps
- Track progress: Lead the data and insights function to deliver dashboards and reports that empower better decision-making
- Drive change: Project manage cross-functional stakeholders and oversee the execution of key initiatives, ensuring we’re all ‘moving as one’
- Identify opportunities: understand the business inside out, proactively coming up with hypotheses and opportunities that could steer our strategy
- Seek truth: Step into critical projects, delivering deep research and analysis to uncover game-changing insights and learnings
- Improve ways of working: Develop strategic frameworks, systems, and processes to streamline decision-making and collaboration
- Lead transformative projects: Own transformative initiatives end-to-end, from ideation to execution, with a Global lens
- Experiment and scale: Drive research, prototype solutions, gather learnings, and launch game-changing ideas
- Examples incl. Redesigning the store journey, reimagining loyalty programs, or creating a new bonus scheme for field teams
- Build deep trust & relationships with team members across the whole org, acting as trusted partner to our team
- Champion our culture and take it forward
Salary benchmarks
Our take
More people deserve great coffee and Blank Street strives to make this possible. Blank Street’s formula involves technology enabled, micro-footprint brick-and-mortar spaces which operate at a cheap price meaning they can produce excellent coffee, also, at a reasonable price.
What started as one electric-powered coffee cart in 2020 has expanded to over 50 locations across New York City, Boston and London. Blank Street wants to serve coffee cheaper than Starbucks but tastier than Dunkin’ Donuts – its main competitors – and has done so with automation, specifically Eversys espresso makers that can produce 700 drinks an hour.
The chain has received mighty financing, including from real estate tycoon Tishman Speyer as well as from General Catalyst Partners and Tiger Global Management. This brand is certainly making its mark as its growth has remained at an impressive rate, especially following its entrance into the thriving coffee shop market in the UK.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2023
$20m
EARLY VC
Oct 2021
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage. Blank Street covers the full premium for low and mid-tier employee-only plans
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off + company holidays
- Paid parental leave benefits
- Equity
- Learning and development opportunities. We're growing and we'd like for you to be a part of the journey
- A whole lot of Blank Street swag & coffee
Company HQ
South Williamsburg, NY
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Leadership
Issam Freiha
(Co-founder & CEO)Spent less than a year in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley before becoming a Partner at Reshape (Fmr. Alrai Capital)
Vinay Menda
(Co-founder)Is currently a Board Member for Eden and Hudson River Park Friends, an Advisor for both Vero Leasing and Archie, an Investor at Sprout, Mealco and MainStreet, and a Managing Partner for Reshape Ventures.
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