Business Operations Associate/Sr Associate

Created on 14-09-2018

Location Palo Alto, CA, US

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Description

About Houzz

Houzz is the leading home renovation and design platform in the world. We have a highly engaged community of over 40 million unique monthly users who leverage our technologies to find inspiration for their next project, connect with over 2.1 million home design professionals and discover products in the Houzz Shop.

About the Role

Houzz is looking for a Business Operations professional, who can drive solutions to key scaling challenges and inform strategic direction as we build our rapidly-growing Marketplace. The role involves partnering with Houzz’s leadership team within product, marketing, and engineering to drive Houzz’s product and monetization efforts.

What You'll Do

Partner with the Product leadership and Monetization teams, as well as with other technical and business teams, to help crack the most important strategic and operational problems facing the Marketplace business

Conduct data analysis to evaluate strategic opportunities, put together business cases for new opportunities and lead growth initiatives and special projects

Build an understanding of Houzz data and systems and leverage technical tools (e.g., SQL) to independently query data. Run ad hoc data analyses to drive insights for the product and inform business strategy

Lead business driver analysis; define KPIs, monitor and evaluate performance against targets

Lead strategic projects and initiatives and check-in with team members on progress / next-steps

Coordinate with other internal teams on projects and ensure cross-functional collaboration / teaming

At a Minimum, We’d Like You to Have

Structured thinking: Ability to develop and leverage frameworks to help structure the team’s thinking, facilitate alignment on key strategic decisions among various stakeholders and identify the opportunities to reach insightful, actionable answers

Technical aptitude: Ability to leverage technical background and prior experience in use of data and systems (e.g., databases, data warehouse and query technologies) to help frame and conduct analyses required to deliver data driven decision-making

Tools & technical skills: Can conduct quick and high quality analysis and presentations using advanced Excel (for complex modeling) and PowerPoint

High productivity: Ability to be highly productive with limited oversight. Someone who takes meaningful responsibility for shaping and executing upon our strategy and operations

High-energy, team-first, positive attitude: Motivated to work hard in a fast-paced environment

Multi-tasking prioritization expertise: Able to balance numerous different priorities and demands efficiently

B.A./B.S. degree in a management or technical field

3+ years of experience

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

2-3 years of management consulting or investment banking experience. Focus on eCommerce, tech, consumer internet is a big plus

An M.B.A., or Master’s/Ph.D degree in a management or technical field

Prior SQL experience and has worked with databases and data warehouse or BI technology