About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Strategy & Planning Associate for the France region, who will partner with the general manager to deliver strategic projects and manage the governance. Someone who can navigate a highly diverse set of stakeholders to drive action and results; Someone with high business acumen that can understand complex problems fast, recommend a practical course of action and follow through. Someone who understands and speaks data, operations and strategy equally well.

What the Candidate Will Do:

• Strategy: Work closely with the Ops leadership and S&P teams across EMEA to create a shared vision and strategic approach for the region and run strategic, consulting-like, projects
• Planning: Build and maintain financial and headcount models, operational reporting, OKRs, projections, and key business metrics to inform leadership decision making
• Program/Project Management: Be a resourceful, go-getting multitasker, supporting initiatives across the region by working with cross-functional stakeholders the U.S. and EMEA
• Scale: Build, maintain, and communicate detailed reporting models to assist city-level, regional, and expansion efforts, and make data-driven decisions
• Develop Relationships: Interface with other functional areas (Engineering, Business Development, People Operations, Product, Legal, Finance, Rides, Eats, Nemo etc.) to ensure efficient and productive working relationships
• Execute on projects: Step into operational gaps and help the local teams execute
• Governance: Partner with Regional General Manager to manage the regional governance

• At least 4 years experience in investment banking, consulting, process optimization, business intelligence and/or strategy.
• A BA or MA degree in Economics, Business or STEM fields
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with exposure to senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Experience in defining solutions to complex, strategic topics with a deeply analytical and data-driven approach to issues
• Balance attention to detail with swift execution - we need to do things quickly, and we need to do them well
• Full proficiency in French and English is required

• Self-starter - the ability to self-serve, investigate and get the data we require will make you much more effective in this role
• Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away
• Advanced analytical capabilities preferred, including knowledge of statistics and comfort with SQL
• Experience implementing process optimization frameworks