Vice President Strategy

EZRA; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Your Own World-class coach

Coaching for Friends and family

Charity Days

Learning Budget

Weekly Wellbeing Hour

Regional benefits

A welcoming place to do your best work

Job summary

EZRA in New York seeks a VP, Strategy reporting to the COO to shape EZRA's strategic direction across business and product strategy—translating insights into choices, investment priorities and measurable outcomes.

You will lead a team of Strategy Leads, coordinate with Product, Technology, Coaching and Commercial teams, and support Board and Executive discussions with clear business cases and recommendations. The role requires 12+ years in strategy roles and credibility with C-suite executives.

Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience across product strategy, corporate strategy, commercial strategy, management consulting or related leadership roles.
• A track record of defining and executing product and business strategies that have delivered measurable growth.
• Strong experience in proposition portfolio strategy, including pricing, positioning, commercialization and lifecycle management.
• Experience building for or selling to large enterprise customers, with credibility at C-suite and Board level.
• Experience with AI-powered products and a clear point of view on how AI is reshaping product strategy and market positioning.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing strategy teams.
• Experience in HR technology, talent management or a services-enabled-by-platform business is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual strategic planning process, long-term growth roadmap and quarterly OKR process, ensuring clear choices, ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Define and own EZRA’s proposition portfolio strategy – including vision, roadmap, lifecycle decisions, investment priorities and pilot / soft-launch frameworks.
• Own market, customer and competitor intelligence, identifying emerging opportunities, risks and trends – including how AI is reshaping coaching, leadership development and HR technology.
• Own the evolution of EZRA’s global pricing and commercial framework, building business cases for new propositions and evaluating revenue, margin, investment and market-position implications.
• Partner with Product, Technology, Coaching and Commercial leaders to shape roadmaps and bring propositions to market.
• Support Board and Executive discussions with clear insight, business cases and recommendations, while leading and developing a high-impact Strategy team.

Job description

Who we are:

We believe everyone can be better with a coach... and we won\u2019t stop until we get there.

Coaching changes people\u2019s lives. It helps them be happier and more productive in their work. It turns entire companies into more inclusive, more productive places to be. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve made it easy for more people – not just those at the top – to benefit from the world\u2019s best coaches. This is true of our EZRA team. We believe a happy team is a productive one. We help our people grow, to care deeply about and be proud of what we do.

The Role

Reporting to our Chief Operating Officer, the VP, Strategy leads EZRA\u2019s strategic direction across both business and product strategy – determining where EZRA plays, how we win and what propositions and capabilities we build to create sustainable growth. You\u2019ll bring together corporate planning, market intelligence, product strategy, pricing, commercialization and executive decision support, translating customer, market, product and financial insight into clear choices, investment priorities and measurable outcomes. Leading a team of Product & Business Strategy Leads, you\u2019ll ensure strategy moves from recommendation into coordinated execution across Product, Transformation, Technology, Commercial, Finance and Operations.

What you\u2019ll Do:

• Own the annual strategic planning process, long-term growth roadmap and quarterly OKR process, ensuring clear choices, ownership and measurable outcomes.


• Define and own EZRA\u2019s proposition portfolio strategy – including vision, roadmap, lifecycle decisions, investment priorities and pilot / soft-launch frameworks.


• Own market, customer and competitor intelligence, identifying emerging opportunities, risks and trends – including how AI is reshaping coaching, leadership development and HR technology.


• Own the evolution of EZRA\u2019s global pricing and commercial framework, building business cases for new propositions and evaluating revenue, margin, investment and market-position implications.


• Partner with Product, Technology, Coaching and Commercial leaders to shape roadmaps and bring propositions to market.


• Support Board and Executive discussions with clear insight, business cases and recommendations, while leading and developing a high-impact Strategy team.

About you

• 12+ years\u2019 experience across product strategy, corporate strategy, commercial strategy, management consulting or related leadership roles.


• A track record of defining and executing product and business strategies that have delivered measurable growth.


• Strong experience in proposition portfolio strategy, including pricing, positioning, commercialization and lifecycle management.


• Experience building for or selling to large enterprise customers, with credibility at C-suite and Board level.


• Experience with AI-powered products and a clear point of view on how AI is reshaping product strategy and market positioning.


• Experience leading and developing high-performing strategy teams.


• Experience in HR technology, talent management or a services-enabled-by-platform business is advantageous.

Life at EZRA

• Your Own World-class coach to help you grow personally and professionally.


• Coaching for Friends and family because coaching is a gift worth passing on.


• Charity Days to support the causes close to your heart - because doing good feels good.


• Learning Budget to fuel your curiosity. If it helps you grow, we\u2019re in.


• Weekly Wellbeing Hour just for you. No meetings. No emails. Just space to breathe, reflect, or reset.


• Regional benefits flex to fit your location and lifestyle.


• A welcoming place to do your best work. Comfortable, collaborative and inclusive.

#LI-Hybrid

We\u2019re an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building a diverse team that reflects the communities in which we work, where everyone has a voice and feels able to be themselves.

We believe that diversity strengthens to our culture and business. Valuing uniqueness and respecting our differences means we grow faster, become better, and achieve more.

In the spirit of transparency, credentials are verified through background checks conducted upon conditional employment, in accordance with applicable laws.