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Role: Strategy & Planning Senior Analyst Position Type: Full-Time Contract (40hrs/week) Contract Duration: 6 months+ (With a Possibility of Contractor-to-hire) Work Schedule : 8 hours/day (Mon-Fri) Work Hours: 05:30-13:30 PST Location : 100% Remote (Candidates can work from anywhere in Karnataka, India) Responsibilities Drive process improvements and leverage metrics to improve transparency, overall team performance and efficiency around key cross-org programs. Organize and lead cadence-based stakeholders / leadership meetings, tracking actions, providing timely communication of program status, schedule, risks, and blockers. Support vendor and contract management tracking, ensuring commitments and spend are visible. Establish and enforce consistent program management processes across the organization. Configure and manage Jira workflows, automations, and reporting to support engineering and product teams. Support cross-functional program execution by maintaining standardized tools and reporting processes. Tooling Proficiency Project Management Software: Proficiency with at least one major project management platform (e.g., Jira, Asana, Smartsheets) for task management, project tracking, and reporting. Spreadsheets: Advanced skills in using spreadsheets (e.g., Google Sheets) for financial modeling, resource allocation, and data analysis. Automation/Scripting: Working knowledge of tools like AppScript to automate reporting, data manipulation, and other manual tasks. Data and Visualization: Experience with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, SQL) to create compelling dashboards and reports. Financial and Operational Expertise Budgeting and Financial Forecasting: The ability to not just track a budget but to forecast future spend, identify cost-saving opportunities, and create financial models for complex projects. Capitalization (CapEx vs. OpEx) Knowledge: A strong understanding of the difference between capital expenditures (CapEx) and operational expenditures (OpEx). This includes knowing which project costs can be capitalized, the accounting principles that govern it, and how to work with finance and accounting teams to ensure proper tracking and reporting. Cost Management and Optimization: Proactively managing costs throughout the project lifecycle. This includes being able to identify and address budget overruns, negotiate with vendors, and make data-driven decisions to maximize return on investment (ROI). Vendor and Contract Management: Experience in managing relationships with third-party contractors and vendors, including creating and managing contracts, and ensuring they meet technical and financial obligations. Strategic and OKR-Specific Skills Strategic Planning and Alignment: The ability to align a program's goals with the company's broader strategic OKRs. This person should be able to translate high-level business objectives into tangible, measurable program goals. OKR (Objectives and Key Results) Development: Expertise in creating clear, ambitious, and measurable OKRs. This includes drafting objectives that are inspiring and key results that are quantifiable, relevant, and time-bound. Performance Measurement and Reporting: Skills in using data to measure progress against OKRs. This goes beyond simple project tracking to include the ability to synthesize performance data, identify trends, and provide insights to senior leadership on the overall health of the program in relation to business outcomes. Basic 8+ years of strategy, planning and business operations experience within technology organizations, including prior experience directly partnering with Product and Engineering organizations Proven ability to standardize governance processes across engineering teams, including planning cycles, portfolio intake, and OKRs Experience with capitalization workflows, vendor and contractor management, and program reporting in partnership with Finance/Accounting Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Clarity, Smartsheet and reporting platforms (Tableau, SQL, or equivalent), with experience building automations across tools and systems Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, with a proactive bias for action and dedication to continuous improvement Bachelor's degree in a technical or business field, or equivalent practical experience Preferred Experience with program and delivery lifecycles, with the ability to integrate technical and business perspectives into decision-making. Strong business acumen and excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, to adeptly influence without authority and forge strong alignment across all organizational tiers, even in complex, matrixed structures Ability to comfortably navigate fast-paced, ambiguous environments, consistently demonstrating a proactive bias for action and a dedication to continuous improvement Working closely and influencing diverse stakeholders, resolving conflicts constructively, and expertly leading teams through periods of change Robust technical and analytical skills, with a proven ability to distill complex data into actionable insights for Senior stakeholders Experience building data visualization, dashboards and business intelligence tools like Tableau, Looker, or Power BI to drive insights at scale Experience curating program metrics and creating dashboards or scorecards for overall project health and progress Ability to synthesize data from various streams and present in a digestible bite size manner to upper management and execution teams