Director of Strategy, Operations & Corporate Development

At eyeo, we transform the internet into a trusted, sustainable and accessible place where users regain control over their experience, content creators and publishers are rewarded for their content, and advertisers and consumers can connect on mutually agreed terms.

eyeo's market-leading ad-filtering technology powers products like Adblock Plus and AdBlock as well as technical integrations for popular browsers. Our solutions empower users to control their online experience and privacy, while providing monetization for content creators, publishers and advertisers.

In combining our partnerships and our subsidiary products, our technology reaches 300 million monthly active users worldwide.

eyeo is a global employer of over 300 people working remotely in more than 30 countries with offices in Cologne, Berlin, Toronto and Malmö., eyeo has colleagues based all over the world. We love our diversity and our company culture. We practice an agile, remote workstyle with work distributed in cross-functional teams that span nearly every timezone. Many of our tech teams prefer to work asynchronously. If working remotely isn't for you, we also have two offices (Cologne and Berlin) that you can choose to work from. Twice a year we come together with our teams for Team Days and once a year we offer an offsite company retreat, Summer Week. By offering remote work and in-person sessions, we have built a hybrid culture that provides a unique dynamic of flexibility and belonging.

Ihre Aufgaben

Reporting to the VP of Strategy, Operations and Corporate Development who sits in the Executive Management team, you will be part of a small but mighty team responsible for supporting the company's growth in strategy development, operational excellence and corporate development. The role is wide, impactful and no two days will be the same.,

• Strategy analyses: Partner with your VP and other cross-functional leaders to set the vision, strategy, goals and priorities for eyeo. This will require in-depth market, technical and/or quantitative analysis

• Project management: Manage cross-functional projects and teams to deploy value creation levers with eyeo leaders

• Sales operations: Take the lead in setting up a central sales operations function working closely with sales leads. You will lead a team of 2-3 individuals here

• Transformation: Support transformation initiatives (e.g. organizational changes)

• Process management: Lead projects to review, create and/or improve core processes across the group (e.g. in partnership with Finance, HR)

• Metrics: Review, create, improve and/or monitor KPIs as well as associated processes and tools to monitor and report performance. Strong collaboration with business, data and financial stakeholders will be required

• Accountability: Develop and coordinate the governance and accountability models; contribute to and monitor metrics dashboards and reporting cadences, ensuring key leaders always have the right information in front of them to champion data-driven decisions; prepare content for regular business reviews

• M&A: Contribute to the search for M&A targets and to Post-Merger Integration projects

Ihr Profil

In this position you'll build a best-in-class international team for a fast-growing profitable tech firm. We're looking for a candidate with an entrepreneurial mindset to produce outstanding results.,

• 7+ years of relevant work experience in business operations, and/or strategy/corporate development, and/or strategy/operations consulting

• Successful track record as strategy and operations manager, including Sales operations and improvement projects and M&A execution and integration

• An unrelenting passion for improving operations and processes

• Solid understanding of the software and technology industry

• Outstanding strategic thinking, communication, and analysis skills required

• Bachelor's degree required,

• Professional experience in both Europe and the US

• Expertise in online advertising technology, online publishing, and/or web browsers

• MSc/MBA in business administration or relevant field

Wir bieten Ihnen

• Work remotely or from one of our offices -we trust you to find what works best for you

• Budget for the following: home office and/or relocation

• Flexible working hours

• 28 days paid vacation

• Volunteer day

• Sabbatical leave allowance after 2 years

• Your choice of hardware and setup

• Personal and professional development budget

• Monthly child care allowance for children under 6

• Offsite team days and the annual summer company retreat

• Company-sponsored hackathons