Senior Manager of Product Strategy & Business Operations, Contentful
+ Stock Options
Content management platform
Open for applications
Content management platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To modernize how content flows by leading the transition from legacy CMS to content infrastructure.
Role
Who you are
- Professional Background: 5+ years of experience in areas such as management consulting, investment banking/private equity, BizOps, strategy, or corporate development roles
- Stakeholder Communication: Strong business generalist with outstanding communication and collaboration skills, able to communicate complex information and concepts clearly for executive audiences. Able to confidently manage taking on-board executive feedback
- Quantitative Analysis: Performs accurate analysis on complex data and derives new and actionable business insights based on this. Able to question and challenge assumptions and outliers, and accurately report findings. Has experience building complex business and financial models and analyses
- Problem Solving: Defines, structures, and frames complex problems and decisions in a simple, actionable way
- Project leadership: Successfully leads large cross-functional teams with a range of seniority levels (up to C-level)
- Action oriented: Experienced in driving from business analysis and insights to action: structuring and solving problems, seeking information needed to solve these, conducting analyses, recommending actions, getting buy-in and alignment from leaders and teams, and working with other teams to deliver results
Desirable
- Knowledge of/strong interest in the digital experience space: this would be a big help given the central role in evolving and communicating our product strategy
- Enterprise go to market (GTM) familiarity: understanding and/or experience of Enterprise SaaS go to market motions
- Product Management familiarity: Awareness of product and software engineering practices, the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and product strategy
What the job involves
- Contentful is looking for a Senior Manager to join the Product Strategy and BizOps team to help scale our business
- As a thought partner to senior management, you will work closely with teams across the organization to understand business performance, set strategy, and drive business growth
- As a member of the Strategy & BizOps team, you will become a trusted advisor to Contentful’s executives and functional leaders, and work on high-impact, top priority issues facing the business
- This role is dedicated to supporting the Product organisation in setting and operationalising strategy, and will bridge cross functional touchpoints with our GTM functions
- As a member of the Product Strategy and BizOps team, you will become a trusted advisor to Contentful’s executives and functional leaders, particularly our Chief Product Officer and Chief Technical Officer, and work on high-impact, top priority issues facing the business
- This is a hybrid role in a small high impact team (currently one direct report), combining individual contribution with people leadership, delivering and leading work directly, coaching other Product leads and team members, and leading through others across the business
- Being a thought partner to senior product leadership: in shaping the strategic product vision and narrative for the company, ensuring effective communication of this in partnership internally and externally, partnering with teams such as our marketing and analyst relation teams
- Being the business partner to product leaders: identifying, surfacing and strategising around business performance of our Product Lines , and being a SME on projecting the business impact of product initiatives
- Own ongoing key strategic initiatives that drive meaningful growth and product adoption: such as supporting product oriented GTM plays, rethinking trials processes, investigating onboarding challenges and driving action through programs or cross functional leadership
- Identifying growth, efficiency, and strategic opportunities for the business: conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis to understand commercial performance of our products, evaluating investments or strategic decisions, identifying and prioritizing actions to take, and communicating insights to senior executives
- Driving successful execution cross functionally with GTM partners: on specific one-off initiatives, or on process or systems improvements that support our growth trajectory. Work closely with our Product leadership and stakeholders including Pricing, Marketing, Sales and Partnerships to drive cross functional projects
- Supporting strategic operational cadences: supporting leadership on C-suite and Board level topics, driving creation of materials for boards and critical internal company strategy communications
- Periodic travel may be required
Our take
Creating, distributing and managing digital content can be complex, time-consuming and difficult, especially at scale. Contentful solves this problem by centralizing all content management into one API-based system.
Since founding in 2013, Contentful has grown to become one of the largest companies of its kind. It now serves thousands of customers, many of which are enterprises such as Danone and Bang & Olufsen. Importantly, the company has continued to improve its offering, for example by partnering with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to offer a way for users to achieve ADA compliance.
In recent years, Contentful has grown its executive team, attracting top talent from companies like Zendesk and Atlassian which has helped to accelerate its ambitious growth strategy. It has also expanded its relationship with AWS, launching the Contentful Composable Content Platform in AWS Marketplace, a key move that will help to broaden its reach and ensure it remains a key player in the competitive CMS market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jul 2021
$175m
SERIES F
Jun 2020
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $336.3m
Company benefits
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, education days, and volunteer days
- Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- Use your physical fitness budget to get away from your desk and support your physical wellness
- A monthly phone/internet stipend and phone upgrade reimbursement after 2 years
- Plus, Contentful socks! And other amazing swag as part of company events. Oh yeah!
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for information, support, discussion, and counseling for life’s challenges
Company values
- Be humble - We are not centered on ourselves, but focus on the needs and contributions of others around them
- Embody a growth mindset - We believe in our collective potential to develop and evolve through dedication and continuous learning
- Start with the customer and work backwards - The first question we ask is “What customer need does this solve?” and treats each customer with empathy
- Strive together - Creating anything of significance without collaboration is challenging, so we work hard together to make an impact
Company HQ
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Leadership
Paolo Negri
(CTO)Previously worked as Senior Developer at AutoScout24, and Senior Developer Team Lead at Wooga.
Sascha Konietzke
(CSO & Board Member)Previously worked as EMEA Manager at Hewlett-Packard, and founded a range of companies including angel investment firm Ko9.
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