Director Corporate Strategy
Intuit
Director Corporate Strategy
Location(s): Mountain View, CaliforniaCompany Overview
Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
At Intuit, our mission is powering prosperity around the world. We build intuitive web, mobile, and cloud solutions that generate more money, more time, and more confidence for 46+ million people. Leveraging big data insights, machine learning, and powerful automation, we help consumers, small business owners, and the self-employed achieve their dreams of prosperity.
Intuit's Corporate Strategy & Development (CS&D) team is charted with defining and accelerating the company’s top growth priorities through strategy, M&A, and partnerships. We work on highly visible, direction-setting strategy and acquisition initiatives at the corporate level and across all of Intuit’s businesses. The team is focused on identifying, evaluating and executing on opportunities to drive growth. We collaborate closely with the senior executive team to define both the company’s overall strategy as well as strategies for specific business lines. Our projects often mirror the work at top strategy consulting firms and investment banks, but with an emphasis on driving impact in close collaboration with product and business leaders. The role offers significant exposure to senior leaders across the company as well as greater responsibility and career progression than often found in professional services.
Qualifications
- 8+ years total work experience with a focus on strategy including helping organizations identify and set the direction toward their most important goals and partnering with C-Suite executives to help turn ambitious goals into reality
- Bachelor's degree and excellent academic record required; advanced graduate degree (e.g., MBA, PhD, etc.) preferred
- Demonstrated ability to develop and lead end-to-end work process to structure complex problems, develop clear hypotheses, conduct analyses and drive actionable recommendations through a data driven process
- Experience in building trusted advisor relationships and influencing others (including C-level executives); Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
- The ability to create clear, concise, and convincing communications including powerpoint presentations; experience with communicating strategic direction through written narratives highly desired; comfortable in business and technical discussions
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
- Strong people development and leadership skills; able to manage multiple extended or virtual teams
- Growth mindset for yourself and others; demonstrated track record of coaching and developing team members
- Intellectual curiosity and a passion for understanding the fundamental drivers of business success and competitive advantage
- A passion for helping consumers, small businesses, and the self employed improve their financial lives
- The ability to develop a strong point of view combined with the openness to evolving that view based on new data; Collaborative team player who is also an independent thinker
- Experience with approaches to testing strategic hypotheses and options (e.g, A/B Testing; Lean Startup Approach, Minimum viable prototype) OR a strong passion to learn and develop this skill set
Responsibilities
As a leader reporting to Intuit’s SVP of Corporate Strategy, you will shape Intuit’s future by developing business recommendations that will have a material impact on Intuit’s top and bottom line and help inform the company’s most pressing strategic decisions. You will lead cross-functional teams that consist of CS&D Principals and Managers along with business unit and functional team members. Engagements focus on a range of topics, including customer discovery and customer data analysis, economic and financial analysis, new market entry, and innovating new products and business models. It is essential that the individual selected for this position be able to quickly establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect throughout the organization at all levels, and be viewed as a team player. As the CS&D team is viewed as a source of leaders within Intuit, the individual will have exceptional leadership opportunities and potential to take on larger leadership roles across the company.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Leading and developing a high caliber team of Principals and Managers, most of whom are former management consultants
- Structuring work plans and project scope to deliver business impact on high priority issues
- Managing combined direct and virtual teams in the execution of that plan
- Presenting recommendations and leading discussions with all levels of management including C-level executives and the Board of Directors
- Synthesizing inputs, identifying critical insights and developing compelling recommendations for both internal and external audiences
- Understanding and staying current with the competitive landscape as well as the latest thinking in strategic and competitive advantage
- Providing thought leadership and ad-hoc strategic advisory to leaders across the company
- Coaching and developing team members to be future leaders and to achieve their own development goals
- Conducting leadership team and skip level reviews for a comprehensive understanding of the team and individual dynamics
- Uses multiple channels to gather feedback, including individual, 360 and employee surveys. Self-assesses, and personally learns and grows in the process
- Building the Corporate Strategy & Development team’s brand within Intuit Identifying and pursuing opportunities for Corporate Strategy to accelerate Intuit’s growth as well as achievement of business unit strategic goals
- Proactively identifying direction-changing moves for Intuit and building a case for them
"When I encounter a technical problem, I feel driven to find a solution that is simple, human, and easy to understand."
"It’s important to always strive for improvement, even if you’re already in a good place."
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
"Designing at Intuit feels special because we're not just making things to make things. We're tackling real, consequential financial problems voiced by small businesses, self-employed, and individuals around the world. I'm grateful to have such a worthy and motivating mission when I go to work – powering prosperity around the world."
"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"By feeding our customers' data through machine learning algorithms, we uncover valuable insights that empower millions of customers to feel more confident about their financial future."
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
"We use the latest Native frameworks for iOS and Android to deliver a truly delightful mobile-first experience for our customers. I love that we're enabling millions of customers to improve their financial health, all under a world-class mobile experience."
"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."
"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."
"It's a great feeling knowing that when you push out a new feature or fix, our customers notice it and really love the work that we do! Here at Intuit, not only do we have the freedom to work with the newest technologies, but we value solving challenging financial problems for our customers above everything else."
"One of my favorite aspects of this role is that my work is helping small business owners achieve their business goals by solving complex financial problems. It's gratifying to know that the work that I'm doing directly impacts consumers and makes their lives easier so that they can focus their energy on growing their business."
"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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