What are the responsibilities and job description for the Strategic Projects Lead position at Strategic Employment?
About Us
We're a fast-growing B2B SaaS company modernizing a large, historically underdigitized industry. Our platform helps businesses grow revenue, streamline operations, and get paid faster — and we've built real AI tooling to go with it. We're not digitizing spreadsheets. We're rebuilding how an entire industry does business, and we're doing it fast.
Our founding team has done this before at scale, and we're doing it again with more speed and more leverage.
The Role
We're looking for a Strategy & Operations Lead to sit at the intersection of finance, growth, and execution — reporting directly to the CFO. This isn't a "build decks and wait for approval" role. You'll own high-priority projects end-to-end, translate data into decisions, and help the business operate more intelligently as we scale.
If you've spent a few years in consulting and found yourself more energized by the "now what?" than the "so what?" — this role was written for you.
What You'll Do
Drive strategic initiatives — Partner with the CFO and leadership team to scope, prioritize, and execute cross-functional projects: pricing strategy, unit economics, market expansion, operational efficiency, and more.
Build the operating infrastructure — Design and own business reviews, KPI dashboards, and reporting frameworks that give leadership a clear view of what's working and what isn't.
Find and fix operational gaps — Dig into our data (yes, you'll pull SQL), identify where the business is leaking time or money, and build solutions — not just recommendations.
Automate the boring stuff — Identify workflows that should run themselves and build or commission the tooling to make it happen. You're not here to manage spreadsheets; you're here to kill them.
Support financial planning — Work closely with the CFO on budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modeling as the business scales.
Act as a force multiplier — Take things off the CFO's plate by driving projects to completion with minimal hand-holding. You'll have high visibility and real accountability.
Who You Are
- 3–6 years of experience, with a strong foundation in strategy consulting (MBB, Oliver Wyman, L.E.K., Parthenon, Strategy&, or similar) — or consulting a high-growth startup biz ops / strategy role
- You've moved from "here's the slide" to "here's what we did about it" and you prefer the latter
- Comfortable writing SQL to pull your own data — you don't wait on a data analyst to answer your questions
- Genuinely excited about AI and automation tooling, and already using it in your daily work
- Strong financial modeling chops; you can build a bottoms-up model and explain it to a non-finance audience
- Clear, direct communicator — written and verbal — who can influence without authority
- Hungry to learn a new industry and develop real operator instincts, not just advisory ones
Bonus Points
- You've worked in or around B2B SaaS, marketplace, or fintech businesses
- Experience with payments, AR, or revenue operations
- You've built or launched something — a process, a product, a tool — not just recommended it
Why This Role
- Direct line to the CFO and leadership team from day one
- Real scope, real ownership — no two-year associate track before you matter
- A product that customers love and an industry that's decades behind on tech (meaning: enormous opportunity)
- A team that has successfully led large-scale digital transformations and is doing it again, faster
We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse perspectives and are committed to building an inclusive team.