Job Specifications
Senior Manager, Strategy & Planning
Location: Milpitas / San Jose, CA (This is a hybrid role, with onsite presence required as needed.)
Contract Duration: 6 months
Note - (This is a hybrid role, with onsite presence required as needed.)
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Manager of Strategy & Planning to partner closely with the CMO and senior leadership on shaping, framing, and advancing critical strategic priorities. This role is ideal for a strong strategic thinker who can fluidly move between high-level strategy and operational execution, with a clear emphasis on problem framing, hypothesis-driven thinking, and executive synthesis.
The ideal candidate brings a consulting-style approach to ambiguous problems, demonstrates rigor in strategic thinking before execution, and is comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments alongside senior leaders.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Framing & Executive Narrative
Lead front-end strategic problem framing, including hypothesis development, structured thinking, and scenario exploration.
Translate complex, messy, or ambiguous challenges into clear, executive-ready narratives and decision frameworks.
Develop high-quality briefs, presentations, and strategic materials for CMO and senior leadership discussions.
Synthesize market, competitive, customer, and internal insights into cohesive strategic recommendations.
Strategy-to-Operations Enablement
Flex seamlessly between strategy definition and operational follow-through, ensuring strategic intent translates into action.
Clarify trade-offs, decision points, and implications rather than focusing solely on execution mechanics.
Support leadership in evaluating strategic options, prioritization, and sequencing.
Marketing & Business Strategy Support
Partner with Marketing leadership to shape and refine strategic priorities across portfolio, audience, and go-to-market initiatives.
Support long-term marketing direction, including positioning, value propositions, and strategic focus areas.
Align marketing strategy with broader business objectives and leadership intent.
Business & Market Analysis
Analyze market trends, competitive dynamics, customer insights, and business performance signals.
Translate insights into clear implications, hypotheses, and recommendations for senior leadership.
Enable data-informed decision-making without over-indexing on execution detail.
Strategic Planning & Leadership Enablement
Support the CMO and Chief of Staff in preparing for strategic planning sessions, leadership reviews, and executive offsites.
Shape the strategic backbone of planning discussions by defining the “why,” “what,” and “so what.”
Develop materials that drive alignment, accelerate decisions, and support leadership clarity.
Required Qualifications
8–12 years of experience in strategy, management consulting, corporate strategy, business planning, or chief of staff–type roles.
Demonstrated strength in hypothesis-driven problem solving, strategic framing, and executive-level synthesis.
Proven ability to structure complex problems before moving into execution.
Experience working closely with senior executives in fast-paced environments.
Strong analytical capabilities across qualitative and quantitative inputs.
Exceptional communication skills—clear, structured, and executive-ready.
Demonstrated stable tenure and progression in prior roles.
Must be within commutable distance of the Milpitas / San Jose office.
MBA or equivalent advanced training preferred.
Preferred Experience
Strategy consulting background (MBB strongly preferred; Big 4 or equivalent also valued).
Experience in marketing strategy, go-to-market strategy, product marketing, competitive analysis, or portfolio strategy.
Strong executive storytelling and visual communication skills.
Comfort operating at both the strategic and operational levels without losing strategic rigor.
About the Company
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