The Farmer's Dog
Strategic Initiatives & Platform Growth Lead
New York, New York, United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 22 days ago
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About the role
- This is a high-impact role with the opportunity to shape how millions of dog owners experience TFD.
- One Team: We don't think of ourselves as "Acquisition Marketers", "Engineers", "Data Analysts", or "Product Managers".
- Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don't think departments matter.
Responsibilities
- Lead the research, design, and early-stage build of multiple new platform capabilities - each requiring its own build/buy/partner analysis, customer experience design, and commercial model.
- Closely partner across Engineering, Product, Data, Marketing, Finance, and Corporate Development to understand our current environment (systems, architecture & infra), customer journey design, go-to-market strategy and unit economicsServe as a thought partner to the CEO and senior leadership on emerging opportunities to define and opportunities that will help drive competitive advantage for TFD.
- Own a portfolio of CEO-level strategic initiatives requiring dedicated research, structured thinking, and rapid operationalization.
- Drive build, buy, and partner recommendations to the executive team including defining goals, success metrics and own execution.
- Being included is just the beginning, it's about contributing your voice, growing through challenges, and building trust through shared goals.
- To date, The Farmer's Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals.
- The Farmer's Dog is looking for a Strategic Initiatives, Platform & Growth Lead to help lead and evolve our capabilities and offerings for our customers (and dogs!).
- You will work across multiple new verticals simultaneously, each at a different stage of development, and serve as a thought partner and force multiplier for the CEO and senior leadership team.
Requirements
- You have 10+ years of experience with 3-5 years at a top-tier management consulting firm and a track record of leading complex strategic engagements.
- You have operating experience in a high-growth company and a track record of taking ambiguous, early-stage ideas from inception through execution - turning uncertainty into credible, deliverable plans.
- You have low ego and high ownership - you thrive in environments where you are figuring things out without a lot of structure, and you treat ambiguity as an opportunity rather than a problem.
Compensation
- Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
Benefits
- The Farmer's Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care.
- Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.
Company info
- The Farmer's Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We're starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers' doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.
- To date, The Farmer's Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.
- #LongLiveDogs
- What We Stand For and Where You'll Come In
- We're starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers' doors.
- Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.
- Reporting directly into our SVP of Integrated Ecosystems, this person will work in close partnership with the CEO and senior leadership to help lead the incubation of new platform capabilities for TFD - researching markets, defining build/buy/partner strategies and mapping customer experiences.
- This person comes with a rigorous analytical toolkit, operational instincts, entrepreneurial drive & has a track record of building & executing initiatives from launch through delivery successfully in high-growth environments.
- You will be highly cross functional across the business, turning early-stage ideas into exciting plans and executing on delivering real products and services that bring joyful experiences to our customers and dogs.
Equal opportunity
- The Farmer's Dog, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic or status.
- For more information, please visit Know Your Rights.
- Reasonable Accommodations
- TFD complies with applicable federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
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