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The VP Business Operations & Strategy will play a vital role in driving Optimism’s growth, efficiency, and profitability within the organization by developing and executing strategies that align with the Collective’s goals and objectives. This person will help shape the overall direction and performance of the Optimism Collective.

What are the role responsibilities?

• Develop and refine Optimism’s long-term strategic plan by analyzing market trends, identifying growth opportunities, and setting goals and objectives to drive the Collective forward.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the business, ensuring that processes are efficient and aligned with the company's strategic goals by optimizing workflows, implementing new technologies, and ensuring overall productivity.
• Develop budgets, forecast financial performance, and track key financial metrics; responsible for monitoring the company's performance against key metrics and benchmarks, and providing regular reports to senior management and stakeholders.
• Oversee revenue planning and goaling while developing accurate revenue forecasts to help identify and size existing and new business opportunities.
• Lead efforts to identify and pursue new business opportunities, which could include expanding into new markets, forming strategic partnerships, or launching new product lines.
• Provide key performance metrics to the executive leadership team as well as GTM concerning account performance, pipeline management, opportunities/risks, and brand/product performance.
• Collaborate with other departments such as DevRel, Marketing and Product to ensure alignment and coordination across the organization.
• Develop a deep understanding of our peer and competitor positioning as well as the emerging crypto landscape to inform your recommendations.
• Leverage advanced business intelligence tools to provide insights, forecast trends, and drive decision-making.

What skills do you bring?

• 10+ years of experience in a business-strategy role (management consulting, investment banking, strategy at a hedge fund, operations at a start-up, etc.).
• Exceptional analytical skills that help make data-driven decisions and recommendations amongst ambiguity; demonstrated ability to adapt quickly to shifting priorities, and make decisive decisions.
• Demonstrated success working in a revenue operations leadership function that has created material growth amidst a rapidly changing industry.
• Excellent cross-functional collaborator who is able to move quickly and drive results in a matrixed environment; proven experience building buy-in for recommendations across all departments and levels of the organization.
• Strong understanding of blockchain, protocols, Defi, NFTs, DAOs, and other crypto-native technologies and communities.
• Proven ability to collaborate with and ideally lead supporting functions (e.g., DevRel, Data, Finance) to further accelerate growth.
• Natural curiosity to understand and solve complex business problems.
• Superior communication (written/verbal) skills.