Strategic Initiatives Lead
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Abacum · New York CityPrepare for this interview
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Responsibilities
- Own the outcome: You will be tasked with tackling a focused problem or work stream at any given time - scoped with the Chief of Staff, owned by you end to end. The research, structuring, and execution that turns an ambiguous question into a clear recommendation or a running program.
- Write the playbook: Your wins don't stay with you. What works becomes repeatable and the motion the rest of the team runs as well as the foundation the function is built on. When we find winning plays, scale them, hand them off to the team and start working on the next experiment.
Requirements
- You're fast because you're structured, not because you're cutting corners. You can sit with ambiguity long enough to form a real point of view, then act on it decisively and with speed.
- Strong technical and analytical skills and fluency with data, with the ability to work with metrics and data to inform strategy, pressure-test assumptions, and translate findings into clear, actionable plans
- You're AI-pilled. You have an opinion on where each function should be leveraging AI and are eager to bring others along with you.
- A bias to action and comfort with ambiguity. You don't wait for a brief; you proactively look for opportunities and build towards them.
- Why take it
- AI is changing how buyers find software faster than most demand teams are adapting. The FP&A category is growing and Abacum is at the forefront.
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Additional Information
About Abacum Abacum is the leading Business Planning solution for finance teams to drive performance . By automating reporting, enabling collaboration, and simplifying planning and forecasting, we help finance teams shift from number crunching to driving strategic decisions. Founded in 2020 by two former CFOs, we've grown into a global team of 100+ people across 30+ nationalities . Headquartered in New York , we have offices in Toronto and Barcelona. We're trusted by industry leaders such as Dish Networks, Strava, BetterUp, Kajabi, JG Wentworth, Abridge, Cortex , and hundreds more. We have raised over $100m, closing in June 2025 our $60M Series B, led by Scale Venture Partners , with the strong participation of Cathay Innovation, Y Combinator , Atomico, Creandum, and angel operators from Adyen, Zapier, and Twitch. Our mission is ambitious and we can't do it alone - join Abacum as we build the future of Business Planning! This is a hard role to put in a box, which is intentional. The Strategic Initiatives Lead will report to the Chief of Staff and work on the problems that matter most to the business right now - not a fixed function. The first projects will likely sit in Growth and then move to GTM broadly speaking, but where you go next depends on what the company needs and what you're good at/eager to learn. People who've done this well tend to come from places where the feedback loop was short and the expectations were high - early-stage startups, ex-consultants, strategy roles that bled into execution, or careers where they had to build without a playbook. We're hiring for a specific way of thinking more than a specific background. This role requires someone with high agency and an extreme sense of ownership. If you build, test, and think from first principles, we want to talk.
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