Business Operations & Strategy Lead

Notion Notion · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Finance

This role is for a Business Operations & Strategy Lead at Notion, focusing on partnering with Engineering, Product, and Design teams. The role involves identifying high-leverage opportunities, defining problems, driving execution, and using AI to build scalable systems and processes. The ideal candidate will have strong strategy experience, financial modeling skills, and hands-on experience with modern AI tools.

What you'd actually do

  1. Proactively surface and prioritize high-impact strategic and operational opportunities and own them end-to-end from scoping through execution
  2. Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and go-to-market leaders to define and implement strategy across all Notion products, driving increased value for our users, our customers, and our business
  3. Structure complex, ambiguous strategic problems for the Notion leadership team, defining clear hypotheses and building business cases and quantitative models that will inform and influence our approach
  4. Work closely with cross-functional leaders to define and manage key drivers of business performance, identifying areas of opportunity and incorporating them into your work
  5. Develop a comprehensive understanding of our competitive positioning by using, assessing, and developing insights about peer businesses to inform your recommendations

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of strategy experience
  • 5+ years’ relevant experience in management consulting, investment banking, or related professional services fields
  • Highly structured mindset with a strong focus on driving outcomes and turning data into actionable insights
  • Excellent financial modeling skills
  • strong attention to detail and high standards for quality
  • Outstanding executive-level written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to operate independently with senior stakeholders and manage relationships, deliverables, and timelines with minimal supervision
  • Hands-on experience with modern AI tools like Notion AI, Claude, Codex, or similar is expected
  • Deep understanding of AI SaaS business models, monetization strategies, and pricing frameworks, or a strong demonstrated ability to get up to speed quickly
  • Data self-sufficiency
  • knowledge of SQL is required
  • Comfort working in a high-growth, constantly changing environment

Nice to have

  • Prior experience in strategy and operations in B2B SaaS businesses
  • Prior people management experience
  • Proficiency in Python or R for data analysis and modeling

What the JD emphasized

  • Hands-on experience with modern AI tools like Notion AI, Claude, Codex, or similar is expected
  • Genuine enthusiasm for and proficiency with AI tools
  • Deep understanding of AI SaaS business models, monetization strategies, and pricing frameworks