Director of Strategy, CoLab Software
Collaboration tech for mechanical design
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Collaboration tech for mechanical design
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower engineering teams to build the future faster.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a systems thinker with a bias for action. You thrive in ambiguous environments and can operate comfortably at both the 30,000-foot and 3-foot levels—zooming out to align teams, then diving in to fix what’s broken
- You’re an entrepreneurial thinker who can identify and orchestrate the cross-functional building blocks needed to bring complex initiatives to life
- You’re calm under pressure, and build trusting relationships easily across the organization
- You can manage up, down, and sideways—and you do it with low ego and high trust
- You’re comfortable collaborating with and challenging senior leaders (with respect) when something doesn’t add up
- Experience in a strategy, consulting, operations, or similar role
- Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects in high-growth environments
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- High EQ and the ability to build trust across all levels of the organization
- Familiarity with SaaS, B2B, or product-led companies is a bonus
What the job involves
- As Director of Strategy reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), you’ll be both a strategic partner and operational powerhouse
- In this role, you’ll be responsible for standing up new functions and initiatives, working heavily cross functionally to make them happen, and solving problems with a strong sense of ownership and urgency
- This role is equal parts strategy and execution
- You’ll help turn vision into concrete plans, ensure alignment across teams, and make sure the right people are working on the right things
- You’ll also act as a force multiplier—anticipating bottlenecks, solving problems before they escalate, and helping the CSO focus on the highest-leverage strategic priorities, such as launching CoLab into new markets, standing up new functions, and building out new sales motions
- Act as a strategic right-hand to the CSO: manage priorities and ensure follow-through on high-impact initiatives
- Drive execution on key strategic bets, launch CoLab into new markets, and build new sales motions
- Oversee operational performance: define KPIs, track outcomes, and streamline workflows to remove friction and improve strategic planning
- Manage and own cross-functional projects from planning through execution
- Identify competitive opportunities and provide analysis and options to support faster, better solutions
- Improve internal communication flow—ensuring that the right conversations happen at the right time with the right context
Our take
The mechanical design process requires lots of back-and-forth between engineers, designers and business stakeholders who are giving and acting on feedback. Getting everybody on the same page is time-consuming, and comes with lots of admin and flitting between different platforms, whilst important information slips between the cracks.
This is why CoLab has built a cloud-based platform for collaborative mechanical design and reviewing. It integrates into the existing stack of design and engineering teams to bring together all the teams involved in early-stage design. Basically, the platform pools data, feedback, tracking issues, emails, spreadsheets and notebooks into one collaborative space.
Ultimately, CoLab is a simple way to collaborate on concepts and projects at the planning stage, thus nipping in the bud any problems that could arise down the line. With an impressive series of investments behind it, the company plans to scale up its market push, explore the possibilities of AI and expand its team.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2025
$4m
LATE VC
May 2024
$21m
SERIES B
Total funding: $45.6m
Company benefits
- Health and dental insurance (covered at 100% for the employee)
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote/Hybrid Work: Our main office location is in St. John's, NL where we offer hybrid and remote opportunities
Company HQ
East End, St. John's, NL
Leadership
Jeremy Andrews
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previosuly Mechanical Engineering Advisor at Paradigm Hyperloop, Team Lead at Memorial Baja, Battery Enclosure Engineering at Tesla, and Systems Test Engineer at General Dynamics Mission Systems.
Adam Keating
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor at DuXion. Previously Project Lead at Paradigm Hyperloop, Mechanical Engineer at RefleXion Medical and Production Engineer at Statoil.
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