Strategy and Business Operations, Arena
$150-200k
+ Equity
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AI-powered autopilot for business decisions
Open for applications
AI-powered autopilot for business decisions
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$150-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses across industries to make high frequency, critical path decisions fully autonomous.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS from top university or equivalent experience
- 1+ years of experience in a role that requires business analytics or strategic thought (e.g. quantitative consulting, finance, or high growth technology)
- Based full time in our New York City office
- Ability and eagerness to travel 75% of the time, domestically and internationally
- Persistence – You do not get blocked and get into places you’re not invited. You find a way to achieve the outcome. You relish the challenge of navigating complexity
- Insatiable curiosity – You are motivated to understand and know the answer, and unsolved questions bother you. You want to dig deeper to learn the industry of our customer, the workflow for our user, or the inner workings of our AI
- Execution – Your happy place is getting things done and building machines that work, not just talking or powerpoints
- Collaboration – You love working as part of a team and take joy in the process of collaboration. You hold our customers’ goals as your own, and inspire and motivate others to engage alongside you
- Organization - You build and maintain systems to render the complex simple. You can hold many threads at once, and ensure that all track to completion
- Exploration – You are willing to travel all over the world to learn and grow yourself. You understand that human connection and tangible experience are critical to drive value
What the job involves
- In this role you will work closely with everyone from frontline users to senior executives at our Fortune 1000 customers, and be the driving force for adoption of bleeding edge AI in all corners of the world – from the US to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia
- You will own the outcomes for key accounts from start to finish, building close working relationships across customer organizations
- You will understand customer needs deeply and strategize how our technology can solve their problems
- You will execute on business and product strategy, bringing customer feedback to our product development teams
Our take
Arena leverages performance data, predictive algorithms, and machine learning technology to help businesses automate high frequency decisions. In theory, the platform can be used to automate marketing strategies, promotions, inventory and supply chain management, pricing, and more.
Although AI automated decision-making may sound overly ambitious at first, a closer look suggests that it’s actually a natural progression from the huge growth of AI-powered data analytics companies. Arena separates itself from these by providing the next actionable step, rather than leaving these decisions up to internal teams.
The company’s “business decision autopilot” is used by a number of Fortune 500 businesses including multinational brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev, so it must be doing something right. While it's shown stable and impressive growth since launching in 2020, a major 2022 fundraise led by Initialized Capital and Goldcrest Capital suggests an aggressive scale up is inevitable.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2022
$32m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$32m
SERIES A
Total funding: $64m
Company benefits
- 99% of the monthly premium for Aetna medical insurance, plus vision and dental coverage
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Laptop and monitor of your choice
- Office supplies stipend
- Ramp Company Card
- Continued education allowance (books, e-courses)
- Attendances to top conferences in their fields
- Lunches at company wide meetings (several times a week)
- Snack and self-serve lunch options
- Global WeWork membership
Company values
- Real world > Lab – We focus on solving real world problems, not over-applying theory, and deliver measurable results that move the needle
- Speed > Perfection – We value getting from 0 to 1 fast, and then iterating. We believe that the more we ship, the faster we learn
- Trust > Procedure – We trust you and ask that you trust us. Micro-management and hierarchies are not our way
- Form + Function – We strive to truly understand the user and build products that move them on both a rational and an emotional level
- Pride - Ego – We shed our egos and approach problems from first principles. True competence is quiet and humble
Company HQ
Ukrainian Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Pratap Ranade
(CEO)Co-founded and was CEO of Kimono Labs (acquired by Palantir), which converts unstructured web data into APIs. Joined Palantir post-acquisition as a Forward Deployed Engineer. Before co-founding Arena, they led Engineering & Machine Learning at Enigma Technologies.
Engin Ural
(CTO)Former Application Developer at Goldman Sachs. Spent five years at Palantir as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, before joining Enigma Technologies as a Software Engineer.
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