Forward Strategist

Requirements

• Have landed in an ambiguous, high-stakes environment with no predefined strategy and turned it into a structured, delivered outcome
• Have built tooling, systems, or processes that outlasted your involvement and continued to generate value for the organisation
• Can reason from first principles into unfamiliar domains quickly, whether product, operations, commercial, or technical, and become the person others come to for the answer
• Have a track record of making clear, well-reasoned calls, backing them with evidence, and holding to them while remaining genuinely open to changing your view when the facts shift
• Have brought people with you without formal authority, built alignment across teams, and shaped how others think about a problem or outcome

Nice to Have

• Experience operating within or alongside a product or engineering function, with an understanding of how software development and deployment decisions get made
• Exposure to a high-ambiguity environment, whether as a founder or early operator, a consultant to growth-stage companies, or in a role where the job description mattered a lot less than the outcomes you owned

What You'll Be Doing

• Take a poorly-defined problem, establish what it actually is, and build a structured path to resolution, setting direction through the ambiguity
• Deliver on that path end-to-end, prioritising ruthlessly, working across product, operations, commercial, hardware, legal, and technical domains, and owning the outcome until it becomes reality
• Make sound, well-evidenced calls under uncertainty, commit to them, and adapt when the facts change, without deferring decisions or sitting on the fence
• Bring people with you: build alignment across teams and stakeholders without relying on formal authority, communicate a clear vision of the outcome, and coach others toward it
• Leave the organisation permanently better, building processes, tooling, and institutional clarity that scale beyond what you can personally produce

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options (VSOP)
• Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
• Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
• Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
• Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances
• Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work