Senior Growth Project Manager Brazil

Description

Company Description

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 70 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries. The platform connects people looking to travel long distances with drivers heading the same way, so they can travel together and share the cost. With the recent integration of a coach network and a commuter carpooling service, BlaBlaCar aims to become the go-to for shared road mobility. Affordable, convenient and user-friendly, wherever there’s a road, there’s a BlaBlaCar.

Job Description

Why join us?

As of May 2019, BlaBlaCar already helps more than 3 million people in Brazil to travel in a more affordable, convenient and social way. 60% of our members in Brazil say that see friends & family more often thanks to BlaBlaCar. 50% of the city pairs connected by BlaBlaCar are not connected directly by buses, trains, boats or planes: BlaBlaCar helps democratizing travel in Brazil. Come generate impact with us - with only 2% of the population as members, we're at the beginning of our journey in LatAm!

What you will directly contribute to:

Your mission will be helping launch new products and business lines in Brazil (and LatAm), such as BlaBlaBus (integration of carpooling with buses), BlaBlaLines (our daily commute carpooling app), BlaBlaSure (our car insurance offer) and others that may come. This includes:

• Doing all necessary research and analyzes in order to understand if, when, where and how we should launch new products/business line in Brazil or LatAm (greenlight)

• Launching new products/business lines: work in partnership with global Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Government Relations and M&A teams in order to make it happen

• Potentially taking ownership of one of the products/business lines and make it grow

In addition, depending on timing/roadmap, you may work on processes of the core product (BlaBlaCar) such as pricing, market research, competition analysis and data analyzes for the press and other public stakeholders.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful:

• Background

  • At least 4 years of experience with business analysis, business development, management consulting, project management or online marketing - preferably at startups

  • Experience in launching new products, businesses or geographies and in managing teams highly preferred

  • Experience working in organizations with localcentral team setup and in managing internal and external stakeholders are a plus

  • Preferably Engineering, Economics, Business Administration or similar bachelor degree

  • At least 6 months of academic or professional international experience

• Hard skills

  • Acute business sense

  • Ability to work with data to define priorities, actionable insights, and present results - very good Excel skills mandatory

  • Ability to structure solutions for complex problems

  • Clear and concise verbal and written communication

  • Fluent English, Spanish a big plus

• Soft skills

  • Ability to work in ambiguous situations and across organizational boundaries to create a path forward - bias for action

  • Ability to work autonomously and ask for help when needed

  • Initiative to start work streams on her own and deliver results

  • Belief in the value of participating in, and contributing to a collaborative team environment

  • Resilience and grit: get things done despite obstacles; ability to learn and bounce back from failure

Additional Information

A few practical details about the role

• Start: As soon as you are ready!

• Location: São Paulo, Brazil

• Contract: long-term contract

• Compensation: competitive package based on experience and skills

What we offer all of our employees

• Interesting and intellectually challenging projects

• A start-up spirit that fosters agility, teamwork and impact

• Very flexible work environment and schedule

• Challenging career opportunities in a high-growth and fast-paced environment

• Reimbursement of BlaBlaCar trips to experience our value “Be the member”

• Annual BlaBlaBreak which takes us all for an unforgettable weekend

• Opportunity to learn from colleagues in diverse teams and countries (France, Italy, Poland, Russia...BlaBlaCar operates in 22 countries)

• International exchanges program every year BlaBlaSwap

What is next

If you are ready to join our exciting journey, please apply below: upload your resume in English (PDF format) and answer our questions in English.

Kindly note that only complete applications will be reviewed by our hiring team and that all your information will be kept confidential.

You can expect us to review your application within the following 2 weeks. If your application and profile fit our requirements, we will invite you for a first interview.

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.