Senior Corporate Strategy Director, Guild Education
$180-250k
+ Variable compensation (bonus) eligibility along with stock options
More information about location
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
Be an early applicant
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-250k
+ Variable compensation (bonus) eligibility along with stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires deep knowledge of Guild’s business along with financial, operational, and market data to support the company’s continued growth, look over the horizon, predict performance and anticipate opportunities and risks
- 10+ years of experience driving enterprise-wide strategy in high-growth, matrixed organizations, with a proven ability to translate complex market dynamics into actionable growth plans and strategic priorities
- Proven success in investment banking, management consulting or internal corporate strategy or product strategy for a high growth organization supporting enterprise
- Successfully partnered directly with executive leadership to shape long-term corporate strategy, including expansion planning, new business model evaluation, and portfolio prioritization
- Led cross-functional strategic planning processes, aligning teams around vision, goals, and execution roadmaps while instilling operational rigor and accountability
- Built data-backed business cases and strategic recommendations, synthesizing financial models, market research, and internal performance metrics to guide multi-million dollar investments and resource allocations
- Conducted market sizing, competitive benchmarking, and whitespace analysis to identify and prioritize high-impact growth opportunities across products, markets, and partnerships
- Led high-stakes, cross-functional initiatives and special projects, balancing strategic vision with tactical execution to deliver measurable impact in ambiguous environments
What the job involves
- The Senior Director, Corporate Strategy role is an integral part of our Corporate Strategy team, helping set the direction for Guild to drive long-term sustainable growth for the company
- Partner with Guild’s leadership team to shape and refine Guild’s corporate strategy, including long-term growth planning, new business models, and strategic priorities
- Develop data-driven business cases and strategic recommendations using market research, internal analytics, and financial modeling
- Conduct market sizing, competitive analysis, and opportunity assessments to inform company-level decisions and investment priorities
- Lead annual strategic planning processes, working closely with cross-functional partners to translate strategy into execution
- Develop business cases and investment recommendations to support new initiatives, partnerships, or M&A opportunities
- Become a trusted partner that can bring different levels, functions and personalities together to find the best answers for the team
- Play a leading role in M&A diligence, evaluating and sizing acquisition opportunities
- Lead cross-functional initiatives and conduct ad-hoc analyses and special projects in support of Guild’s strategy
- Champion best practices, next-generation solutions and continued skill development across team
Application process
- We typically keep job postings active for 3–5 weeks, though this may vary depending on applicant volume and other factors
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillset requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
Guild Education closed a Series F financing round in 2022 led by Wellington Management and with participation from Oprah Winfrey. The company is using this funding to develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Rachel Carlson
(CEO & Founder)Prior to co-founding Guild Education, was founder and CEO of Blueprint. Before that was a Director at American Honours and an Associate with The Parthenon Group.
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