
Principal Business Operations Manager
BetterUp
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $202,000 - $349,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead BetterUp’s top strategic projects, including annual planning, acquisition integrations, due diligence, and more.
- Oversee due diligence for partnerships with luminaries such as Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Pau Gasol, and Shaun White.
- Develop BetterUp’s European market entry strategy.
- Create BetterUp’s 5-year growth plan for the Board of Directors.
- Collaborate with Co-Founders on fundraising decks.
- Revamp pricing and packaging in partnership with a third-party consulting firm.
- Establish and manage the CHRO Growth Advisory Council.
- Lead the Davos activation, fostering connections between BetterUp’s CEO and Fortune 100 CXOs.
- Negotiate and launch cross-selling partnership with Walmart.com.
- Develop a strategy to expand the engineering team internationally.
- Co-lead acquisition due diligence on U.S. and European acquisition targets.
- Lead post-merger integrations.
- Drive annual planning and manage the company OKR process.
Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience at Bain & Company, McKinsey, or BCG, with demonstrated success leading complex, high-stakes projects. Additional experience in a lean, high-growth scale-up is a plus.
- Strategic and Analytical Excellence: You combine creative problem-solving with a structured, analytical approach to business challenges and are adept at developing actionable insights that shape strategy at the highest levels.
- Cross-functional leadership: Proven ability to work across all organizational levels, particularly with senior executives, to drive alignment, influence decision-making, and deliver measurable results.
- Execution Mastery: You have a knack for juggling multiple high-priority initiatives while maintaining exceptional attention to detail and organization.
- Agility and Resilience: Thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where priorities can shift rapidly, and you remain steadfast in driving impact.
Benefits
- Access to BetterUp coaching; one for you and one for a friend or family member
- A competitive compensation plan with opportunity for advancement
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Flexible paid time off
- All federal/statutory holidays observed
- 4 BetterUp Inner Work days (https://www.betterup.co/inner-work)
- 5 Volunteer Days to give back
- Learning and Development stipend
- Company wide Summer & Winter breaks
- Year-round charitable contribution of your choice on behalf of BetterUp
- 401(k) self contribution
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
strategic project managementdue diligencemarket entry strategygrowth planningcross-selling strategypost-merger integrationOKR managementacquisition integrationanalytical problem-solvingexecution mastery
Soft skills
cross-functional leadershipcreative problem-solvingattention to detailorganizational skillsagilityresilienceinfluence decision-makingdrive alignmentdeliver measurable resultsadaptability