Strategy & Operations Manager
Wowza’s leadership team (or product team) identifies significant business challenges and looks to members of the strategy and operations group to further define issues and recommend solutions. As part of this small team, you will fully immerse yourself in thoughtful analysis as you collect data, draw insight from analysis, and then zoom out to develop compelling, synthesized recommendations.
In addition to strategic analysis, this role is also responsible for communicating recommendations to project stake holders / senior-level executives as well as digging in ton help drive implementation and measure the impact of your recommendations.
As the Strategy & Operations Manager, you are the ultimate data expert at Wowza and thrive on solving highly analytical problems, conducting interviews and synthesizing ideas. You will work with a small team on projects commissioned by Wowza’s leadership team, managing your own workstream(s) as you go.
What you will be doing:
- Structure and define complex and ambiguous problems for Wowza leadership team
- Gather and analyze large amounts of information quickly and effectively
- Develop compelling, insightful recommendations from data across the company
- Build consensus among cross-functional teams and influence decision making
- Review execution against recommendations and measure ongoing impact
- Work with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Finance teams to define and answer significant business challenges
- Own Wowza analytics framework, setting requirements for our BI systems and leading in-depth analyses for various stakeholders
Experience we'd like you to have:
Minimum qualifications:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in management consulting or investment banking
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of relevant work experience
- Experience at a management consulting firm, corporate strategy organization or technology-focused banking organization.
- Early stage company experience.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with impeccable business judgment.
- Effective modeling and presentation skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to be personable yet persistent.
Who we are
Wowza Media Systems (www.wowza.com) creates streaming products and services for delivering video and audio streams to any screen, from desktops to televisions to mobile devices. We have been in business for over ten years, won numerous industry awards, and are driving over 20,000 customers in more than 170 countries.
We are committed to shaping the streaming industry and lead the way with products and services that both simplify streaming, and provide tools for advanced users to build their own customized solutions. By staying true to our focus on customer success we continue to redefine our industry and impact the world. As a result, we are growing rapidly, building out our teams, services and infrastructure.
What we love about working for Wowza
- Million Dollar Views of the Mountains, Denver Metro, and Live Buffalo!
- Strong benefits package including Health, Dental, Life & Disability Insurance, PTO and 401k match
- An appetizing kitchen stocked with food and drinks…. dog treats too!
- The ability to work with amazing clients and partners such as ESPN, Walt Disney, Facebook, US Air Force, Harvard University and Amazon
- Gym Discounts to satisfy that urge to move
- Spacious office with state of the art equipment
- Success based compensation that rewards performance!
This is a great opportunity to join an innovative, successful start-up that is passionate about our customers and has a track record of delivering results.