AI-First Performance & Strategy Lead

pony; Bordeaux; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

pony is seeking a Performance & Strategy Manager to join our founders’ office in France. You will own performance cycles, cascade objectives, and calibrate incentives across the company, driving a culture of high-performance and rigorous execution.

You will build an AI-first operating system, governance rituals, and board-facing materials, partnering with the founders and department heads to align strategy with execution and investor communications.

Qualifications

• Educational background: Master’s degree from a top business school or engineering school.
• Experience: 2–4 years in strategy consulting or as a top performing operator in a scale-up or as a founder.
• Systems-thinking mindset: ability to design and build adaptable systems aligned with goals.
• Influence and Buy-in: ability to gain support from stakeholders through effective leadership.
• Rigour: methodical and high-quality work.
• Analytical skills: data-driven problem solving and business driver understanding.

Responsibilities

• Own the performance system end-to-end: run each performance cycle with department Heads, ensure objectives and KPIs are structured and feed into company objectives; continuously improve the performance system.
• Build and run our AI-enabled business operating system: design and implement an AI-first operating model, knowledge bases, project management tools, performance trackers, AI workflows.
• Run the company’s governance system: design and operate Monthly Business Review, Weekly Excom, All-Hands; drive preparation, topics, decisions and follow-up.
• Board relations: partner with founders in investor communication, including board pack preparation and analysis.
• Performance culture: make key metrics and outcomes visible across the company and link results to daily execution.

Skills

Systems thinking

Influence and Buy-in

Rigour

Analytical skills

Education

Master's degree

Job description

pony is seeking a Performance & Strategy Manager to join our founders’ office in France. You will own performance cycles, cascade objectives, and calibrate incentives across the company, driving a culture of high-performance and rigorous execution.

You will build an AI-first operating system, governance rituals, and board-facing materials, partnering with the founders and department heads to align strategy with execution and investor communications.