Strategy Manager

Nebius; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth and learning

Flexibility and ownership

Collaborative and innovative culture

Opportunity to work on impactful AI

International environment and talented

Job summary

Nebius is seeking a Strategy Manager to join our central Strategy team in Amsterdam. You will own high-visibility workstreams that shape how Nebius plans and performs, including the company KPI framework, headcount planning across departments, and cross-functional strategic projects.

You’ll thrive on speed, rigor, and ownership as you interface with executives and lead initiatives from market analysis to business cases for new products and partnerships.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in strategy consulting or corporate strategy at growth-focused tech companies.
• Experience with KPI design, headcount planning and org design.
• Strong financial acumen: P&L, unit economics, business cases.
• Excellent English written and spoken communication.
• Executive-level stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design and run the company-wide KPI framework: define metrics with department leaders, track performance, and report insights to executive management
• Drive headcount planning and forecasting across departments — top-down targets, coverage assessment and quarterly phasing, working closely with HR and Finance
• Lead strategic projects end-to-end: market and competitor assessment, business cases for new products, geographies and partnerships, M&A support
• Consolidate company-wide strategic initiatives — align cross-team plans, surface insights across departments and validate that initiatives add up
• Prepare board- and executive-level materials: clear narratives, crisp recommendations, quantified trade-offs
• Run primary research: expert-network interviews, customer surveys and voice-of-customer analysis to ground recommendations in evidence

Skills

KPI framework

Headcount planning

Strategic analysis

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/related field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Python

VBA

Job description

About Nebius

Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.

About Nebius

Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI. Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.

The role

Nebius is looking for a a Strategy Manager to join our central Strategy team — a company-wide center of excellence that connects the dots across the organization and brings facts and analysis to top management. You will own high-visibility workstreams at the heart of how Nebius plans and performs: the company KPI framework, headcount planning across departments, and cross-functional strategic projects. The AI infrastructure market moves weekly — this role is for someone who thrives on speed, rigor and ownership. You’re welcome to work in our offices in Amsterdam.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Design and run the company-wide KPI framework: define metrics with department leaders, track performance, and report insights to executive management
• Drive headcount planning and forecasting across departments — top-down targets, coverage assessment and quarterly phasing, working closely with HR and Finance
• Lead strategic projects end-to-end: market and competitor assessment, business cases for new products, geographies and partnerships, M&A support
• Consolidate company-wide strategic initiatives — align cross-team plans, surface insights across departments and validate that initiatives add up
• Prepare board- and executive-level materials: clear narratives, crisp recommendations, quantified trade-offs
• Run primary research: expert-network interviews, customer surveys and voice-of-customer analysis to ground recommendations in evidence

We Expect You To Have

• 3-5+ years of experience in fast-paced environment: in strategy consulting — MBB, Tier-2, or a specialized firm with deep exposure to TMT, investment banking / VC, or in a corporate strategy / BizOps role at a high-growth AI-native company
• Hands-on experience with KPI, performance-management frameworks and headcount / org planning
• Experience developing corporate strategies for hypergrowth companies and/or value creation plans
• Strong financial acumen: fluent in P&L logic, unit economics and business cases
• Executive-level stakeholder management: you can align senior leaders, navigate resistance and drive cross-functional processes to closure
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English — you can distill complexity for a C-level audience
• High ownership and work capacity: you take topics end-to-end, thrive in ambiguity and keep pace in a fast-moving environment

It Will Be An Added Bonus If You Have

• Exposure to cloud, AI infrastructure, data centers or adjacent markets
• Exposure to M&A, integration or investor-facing work
• VBA or Python for analysis

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams

What's It Like To Work At Nebius

Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI

Equal Opportunity Statement

Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.

If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.