Cssmerge Strategy & Planning Lead at Cssmerge to drive planning cadence and performance infrastructure. Own quarterly and annual planning, performance tracking, budgeting, and cross-functional alignment.
Responsibilities
As Strategy & Planning Director, you’ll turn a fast-moving business into a well-organized, goal-driven machine. You’ll own the planning cadence, performance infrastructure, and analytical firepower that keeps every team rowing in the same direction.
This is not a staff role. You’ll own outcomes, not just analyses — and you’ll see the direct impact of your work on how Picnic grows.
Planning & Goal-Setting
Drive quarterly and annual planning processes across all Picnic teams — owning the calendar, the templates, and the quality of outputs.
Partner with the Head of Picnic to define company-level and functional OKRs grounded in business priorities and market realities.
Build and maintain the performance frameworks (KPIs, leading indicators, scorecards) that tell us whether we’re winning.
Performance Tracking & Insights
Own the weekly and monthly business review cadence: synthesize data from across the org into a clear picture of where we stand.
Flag risks early, surface opportunities proactively, and come with a point of view — not just a dashboard.
Work closely with the Data team to translate raw analytics into decisions. SQL and Python fluency will help you move fast without waiting on others.
Budgeting & Resource Allocation
Lead budgeting and forecasting cycles in partnership with our Strategic Finance lead.
Qualification
Bachelor’s from a top university3–6 years of experience in strategySQL proficiency is requiredLow-egoProject management chops
Required
Bachelor’s from a top university
3–6 years of experience in strategy, business operations, consulting, investment banking, private equity or a similar high-output analytical role — ideally in a high-growth startup or tech-adjacent environment.
Exceptional at translating complexity into clarity: you can take a messy business problem, structure it, analyze it, and tell a coherent story about what to do.
Strong command of data — you’re comfortable building models, pulling your own data, and knowing when a number doesn’t pass the sniff test.
SQL proficiency is required
Track record of owning cross-functional processes — not just contributing to them.
Low-ego, high-agency: you’re comfortable being behind the scenes and energized by enabling others to execute well.
Excellent written and verbal communication — you write clearly, present confidently, and calibrate to your audience.
Project management chops: you can hold multiple workstreams without letting anything fall.
