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Finance & Strategy Director

CDI • Paris, France

Cette offre est lié au département Growth operations


Gorgias helps e-commerce companies deliver excellent customer service at scale(e)We integrate email, live chat, voice, Facebook, Instagram, and SMS with Shopify,BigCommerce, and Magento.

Our product creates a unified customer profile by combining emails, live-chat, and social-media messages with e-commerce data such as purchase and delivery info(e)Combining all this data in a single application makes customer service more efficient and just better(e)Another fortunate side-effect is that some requests are completely automated using machine learning(e)? + ? = ❤️

We've been around since 2015, and we're serving over 7000+ e-commerce businesses, including Steve Madden, Timbuk2, Decathlon, and Sports Illustrated.

Our growth exceeded 200% in 2020, so we raised $25 million Series B in December 2020 to double our global team and to accelerate our progress towards our mission to transform support from painful to exceptional for merchants(e)?

A few words about the Growth Operations team at Gorgias
The Growth Operations team is at the root of the entire Growth structure: we act like internal consultants for the other Growth teams (Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Success, Product) for all data-related projects, from complex data analysis to building custom automations for them.
Our role is to empower all teams to make decisions using data, to enable them to automate what can be automated and focus on the areas of their work in which they truly make an impact, as well as to make sure that all teams are aligned in their objectives and how they execute them(e)The Growth Ops team is also in charge of improving core processes that maximize each team's efficiency.

As a manager of the Finance & Strategy team, you will have a key role in the company's long-term strategy for our upcoming growth challenges: you will be leading our business planning, forecasting and validating team budgets with the goals they set have out for the upcoming quarters and years, as well as working on analyzing the efficiency of our growth and retention initiatives(e)By providing guidance and direction to team leads and the top management, you will be aligning our different teams' goals with our general development strategy over the long term and at scale(e)

?As we are building this team from scratch, you will be managing a Business Operations and Strategy analyst currently based in San Francisco, and we will also be hiring for a financial analyst.

? Examples of ongoing Strategy projects include:
- Working on the pricing of new feature that we will be rolling out in 2022
- Running customer research to optimize our current pricing
- Evaluating our growth opportunities in existing and new markets

What you will do

  • Business Planning: Lead strategic and financial planning processes (e.g(e)monthly & quarterly reviews, budgeting, forecasting) ; build and own financial forecast models ; work on the decision making of resource allocation and prioritization.
  • Financial Insights: Help go-to-market team leads and the leadership team by giving them the tools to gain deeper insights into the revenue and margins they are generating across markets, lead segments and billing plans, and how that compares between the different acquisition channels ; guide the Success & Product team leads with insights on our adoption and retention trends across several segments (plans, types of customers) ; sharing all results with the leadership team directly.
  • Business Strategy: Identify, drive and measure growth and retention initiatives including working on our pricing, finding ways to improve our margins, analyze our TAM and provide insights on where to go next, assessing new products or features for our value proposition, acquisition targets

Who you are

  • 3-5 years of experience in investment banking, private equity or strategy consulting at a top-tier company
  • Strong quantitative and technical skills including complex financial modeling and data analysis using tools such as SQL, MS Excel, or Python.
  • Robust working knowledge of accounting and financial reporting standards
  • Proven ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strategic mindset, strong ability to adapt the presentation of action plans & research findings to top management
  • Nice to have: previous experience in a similar position (Finance & Strategy, FP&A, Strategic Finance etc) in a fast growing tech startup
  • Nice to have: knowledge of B2B SaaS environment ; knowledge of or interest in the ecommerce environment

Company Perks & Benefits

  • ?Competitive salary (60th percentile of the market) and equity packages (65th percentile of the market)
  • ? 5 weeks of vacation
  • ?Paid parental leave
  • ?Latest MacBook Pro or equivalent
  • ?Complimentary private health insurance (we use Alan)
  • ?50% of public transportation reimbursed (Vélib, Navigo, etc.)
  • ?Personal credit card to buy lunches during the week (we use Swile)
  • ?Get up to $700 to set up your workstation at home (working from home should feel breezy)
  • ?Get up to $2000 of learning material (includes books, courses, training sessions, etc.)
  • ? Every quarter we organize a company-wide summit to discuss where we're going and strengthen the social bonds (once traveling is safe, we'll transform these summits into offsites!)
Why join us?

? We're among the fastest-growing startups in the eCommerce ecosystem
? We've built an extremely efficient go-to-market engine
? Work with a talented team you'll learn a lot from
? Join a company where automation, good & clean data are core beliefs shared by all

More cool things to know about Gorgias..(e)?

• Raised our Series A for $14M in November 2019: techcrunch.com/2019/11/26/gorgias-series-a
• Raised our Series B for $25M in December 2020: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/10/gorgias-series-b/
• We went from 0 to 7000 merchants using our platform every day from 2016 to 2021
• What our customers are saying: apps.shopify.com/helpdesk#reviews
• Our software stack: stackshare.io/gorgias
• Other positions: jobs.lever.co/gorgias


Gorgias ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or
harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy,
childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or
domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status,
veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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