Strategy Lead

Job Summary

What You'll Do

• Serve as a strategic partner to the President and executive leadership team


• Help refine, pressure test, and extend Koddi’s corporate strategy


• Define and sharpen Koddi’s 2 to 3 year positioning, including clear choices on where we will and will not play


• Develop an independent point of view on market shifts, competitive dynamics, and emerging opportunities in commerce media


• Identify, frame, size, and prioritize new growth opportunities across products, markets, partnerships, and business models


• Translate strategic insights into clear, executable plans with defined sequencing and success metrics


• Act as a bridge from strategy to execution, ensuring initiatives move from idea to action


• Lead and own select strategic initiatives that expand Koddi’s future growth runway beyond the current roadmap


• Track progress of strategic bets, surface risks and misalignment early, and recommend course corrections


• Build high quality strategy artifacts including memos, frameworks, financial models, and board ready materials


• Partner closely with Corporate Development to evaluate investments, acquisitions, and partnerships, including assessing strategic fit and long term value creation


• Monitor external market and competitive signals and translate weak signals into actionable implications


• Influence and align leaders across Product, GTM, Engineering, and Data Science without formal authority


• Support board and leadership discussions with clear analysis, structured thinking, and concise recommendations 

What You'll Bring

• Top tier MBA or equivalent experience


• Pre MBA operating experience in product, operations, corporate development, GTM, or a related function


• Comfort owning outcomes, not just producing analysis


• Strong analytical skills with the ability to make decisions using imperfect data


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to distill complexity into clear recommendations


• Strong judgment, business acumen, and structured thinking


• Proven ability to earn trust and operate close to senior leaders


• Ability to influence across teams without formal authority


• High ownership mindset with a bias toward action


• Comfortable operating in a fast paced, high growth environment