Director, Strategy

Braven

Director of Strategy at Braven, setting strategic direction and leading projects for college students' success. Collaborating with leadership to achieve operational and financial goals.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois, New Jersey, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $101,200 - $126,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the development and execution of strategic initiatives and projects directly alongside executive leaders, ensuring alignment with our business model and program model. Example projects might include evolving Braven’s regional and central business units and developing & executing a new change management framework.
Collaborate with the executive team to identify and evaluate new business opportunities and partnerships that align with Braven’s strategic goals.
Lead working groups that drive our strategic plan to execution, codify decisions and next steps, report progress to Braven’s leadership, and make recommendations for unlocking.
Establish and achieve key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the success of strategic initiatives.
Design, build, and manage a system to document, cascade, and monitor Braven’s most important metrics across program and organizational health
Own the build, rollout, and maintenance of Braven’s regional and organizational health dashboards and other department-specific dashboards to monitor KPIs.
Support the planning and facilitation of two leadership bodies at Braven: Central Leads (c-suite direct reports of the CEO) and One Braven (broader leadership group). Example activities include planning and executing stepbacks, maintaining the knowledge base for both, preparing agendas, and creating content.
Facilitate, project manage, and lead aspects of multi-year and annual planning processes
Provide ongoing thought partnership and data-driven decision support for the Alignment Team (Braven’s leadership team).

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree
5+ years of relevant experience
Fluency in Excel/Google Sheets and SQL
Proficiency in designing and building dashboards and visualizations for business end users and/or organizational leaders (Tableau preferred)
Extensive experience writing and presenting compelling data-driven stories, arguments, and narratives for internal and external audiences
MBA and/or experience in strategy consulting (preferred)
Proficiency in Google Suite, Slack, and Jira
Proficiency in Salesforce
Proficiency in Python or R
Highly entrepreneurial - someone who is curious and can take initiative, with a capacity to independently think holistically and strategically
Ability to make complex tasks simple for yourself and others by applying clear logic and processes to component steps
Excellent time management and prioritization skills, which allow you to manage your own time and energy and seek the right help to complete multiple projects well and on time.
Learner’s mindset, which you use to master new tools, software, and ways of working.
Effective at mentoring and coaching team members and helping them develop professionally
Your experiences have informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with or for Braven’s student population.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 days per year)
Braven supports your path to parenthood and beyond with $25,000 in lifetime Carrot benefits for fertility, family-building, and hormonal health
Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month
Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents
A one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff

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Hard Skills & Tools

ExcelGoogle SheetsSQLTableaudashboard designdata visualizationPythonRdata-driven storytellingKPI tracking

Soft Skills

entrepreneurial mindsetinitiativestrategic thinkingtime managementprioritizationmentoringcoachingclear logiccommunicationcollaboration

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMBA