Director of Global Strategy and Operations, WEKA
High performance data platform
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High performance data platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To power the possibilities of the future by eradicating the compromises of the past.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 6 years of experience in sales operations, business strategy and operations, management consulting, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory, or 4 years of experience with an advanced degree
- 4 years of experience working with executive stakeholders
- Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders across organizational boundaries
- Experience in high growth Enterprise software, SaaS or storage industry
- Experience leading transformation projects
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to take ambiguous topics and turn them into compelling narratives for different audiences
- Excellent problem solving skills
What the job involves
- The Business Strategy and Operations leader will unify teams across WEKA’s global functions to enable our GTM organization to execute efficiently at scale
- This role involves refining people, processes, and tools while working effectively across organizational lines
- You will bring exceptional business judgment and a strong bias for action to guide cross-functional efforts that drive impactful projects and align operations with WEKA's strategic objectives
- This role will include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), reporting (e.g. global data standards and dashboards) and communications
- Hands-on leadership and career development of a global team of business and data analysts
- Provide strategic guidance on business process architecture and technology roadmaps while actively engaging in day-to-day operations and analysis
- Build scalable processes for data collection, analysis, and reporting that align with company goals and drive efficiency
- Ensure the team delivers actionable business insights and data-driven reporting to support decision-making across the GTM organization
- Collaborate with senior leadership to define problem statements, project scope, and strategic goals
- Define and develop OKRs and leading indicators of business performance to understand trends, and proactively identify areas of opportunity and risk
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Operations leadership to execute strategic goals and initiatives
- Support annual planning and contribute to short- and long-term growth plans
- Build a scalable platform to monitor market intelligence, customer trends, and competitor behavior
- Drive competitive intelligence and strategy within core industry verticals, delivering quarterly market insights to influence GTM and product strategies
- Create and deliver presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholders, through visual displays of quantitative information/insights
- Identify gaps and optimization opportunities across our GTM divisions using quantitative and qualitative insights to then define, drive and execute on the strategic solutioning
- Manage cross-functional communications, training, and enablement efforts across the GTM organization and beyond as appropriate
- Create and deliver insights through presentations and data visualizations to stakeholders at various levels
- Own and constantly evaluate and optimize th end to end GTM technology stack
- Lead AI initiatives related to GTM strategies to improve efficiency and ROI
Our take
Many studios and artists are struggling to get their products to market quickly enough, Often, the infrastructure they use is unintuitive and obstructs their work, instead of enhancing it. WEKA provides the Arch Platform, a machine learning/AI solution for managing cloud-based studios for content creation. It is already being used by major Hollywood studios and can take the post-production time from days to minutes.
The platform uses AWS to enable studios of any size to manage project permissions and access a virtual workstation, storage capabilities, and licensing servers. The company has brought everything together and offers support for both Windows and Linux, along with data encryption, backup and recovery, and cloud-bursting for companies that are taking off.
WEKA has a few notable competitors, such as RapidMiner which provides cloud storage and the ability to work on ETL processes, but has stood out thus far by being delivering the fastest file system on the market. The company has also raised considerable funding that will support its accelerated expansion, as well as launching a Sustainable AI Initiative that aims to draw attention to the rapid growth in global data center energy consumption and carbon emissions.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2024
$140m
SERIES E
Nov 2022
$135m
SERIES D
Total funding: $415.1m
Company benefits
- Care package received upon hire: backpack, multiple shirts etc.
- 401(k)
- Stock options available
- Cellular phone plan coverage
- On and off-location meal perks
- Dental, vision, life & disability insurance
- Work-related travel reimbursement
- Flexible spending account
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- A tech stack with Laptop or PC of choice, up to 2 monitors, office phone, headset
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Career development
- At least one offsite event per quarter with spontaneous office gatherings regularly
Company values
- Challenges - WEKA solves big problems for our customers, so we work on big projects.
- Innovation - We built the world’s fastest file system, so innovation is in our DNA.
- Team - We are aligned on a common vision and have a passion for winning. Individually we move boulders, as a team we move mountains.
Company HQ
Pruneyard / Dry Creek, Campbell, CA
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Leadership
Liran Zvibel
(CEO)Studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. Previously Software Engineer at InSightec for 1 year and Co-Founder & VP R&D at Fusic for 3 years.
Omri Palmon
(CSO)Earned a BSc and a MSc in Pure Math from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. Previously Product Manager at ECI Telecom for 2 years.
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