Business Strategist

Squarespace provides creative tools and services to help anyone build and manage their brand online. For more than a decade, we’ve empowered millions of people from individuals and local artists, to entrepreneurs building the world’s most iconic businesses to take control of their online presence like never before. By blending elegant design and sophisticated engineering, Squarespace sets the new standard for modern publishing.

Do you enjoy tackling big questions in creative ways? Are you an independent, self-motivated, analytical thinker? If so, we want you to join our Business Strategy team to help build the analyses, models, tools, and frameworks that will drive change across the company.

This is a high profile, interdisciplinary role that will expose you to many different parts of the company. You will be working closely with company leadership to evaluate potential business lines and grow our customer base. As a result, this role requires personability, curiosity, open-mindedness, vision, and tenacity. The emphasis is on conducting market research, understanding our target customers, cogently communicating strategic recommendations, and steering the company in the right direction. You should be excited to tackle all sorts of critical business questions and convincingly recommend a course of action: Which markets offer the best growth prospects internationally? Which mix of prices & features in our plans would produce the fastest growth in revenue? Why are customers canceling their website subscriptions and what can we do about it? You should be a big picture thinker who’s not afraid to get your hands dirty. Expect to spend a lot of time synthesizing research from our data warehouse, customers, and third party sources, and thinking through business models. Among the work on a typical day: * Build a business case, product roadmap, and go-to-market strategy for a new product * Comb through customer support data to discover opportunities & threats to our business * Identify potential strategic partners, establish relationships with them, & negotiate deals * Model financial impact of potential product changes * Drive execution of a key product initiative in concert with our Product, Marketing, & Customer Operations teams

* 5-10 years experience in entrepreneurship, product management, product marketing, strategy consulting, business development, or market research * Experience building business lines for consumer technology companies * Familiarity with subscription business models * Skilled data analyst. Experience using SQL & Excel. Python/R or another statistical programming language a plus. * Highly analytical mind with tremendous business vision & judgement * Superior communication skills with the ability to convince C-level executives of your position on critical strategic issues * Ability to lead a cross-functional team to achieve a key strategic goal * Willingness to learn by doing and continuously push yourself and others to achieve