As the world moves to a mobile-first economy, businesses need to modernize how they acquire, engage with and enable consumers. Prove’s phone-centric identity tokenization and passive cryptographic authentication solutions reduce friction, enhance security and privacy across all digital channels, and accelerate revenues while reducing operating expenses and fraud losses. Over 1,000 enterprise customers use Prove’s platform to process 20 billion customer requests annually across industries, including banking, lending, healthcare, gaming, crypto, e-commerce, marketplaces, and payments. For the latest updates from Prove, follow us on LinkedIn.
Prove is driving the future of digital identity. We are looking for Provers who know how to make an impact. We’re talking self-starting professionals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, process information quickly, and make intelligent decisions. The work is challenging and requires not only smart but natural curiosity and tenacity. Teamwork is also important to us – we work together and play together.
Prove has big plans, and we’re excited about the future. If this sounds like the place for you – come join our team!
Title: Director, Strategic Initiatives - Verified User
Department: Strategy
Reports To: Chief Business Officer
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: New York, NY or Bay Area, CA
Job Summary
This role will be a key member of the Prove strategy organization, which provides strategic capabilities, thought leadership, innovation, and product and industry strategy in the areas of identity management, authentication, fraud prevention and detection, and commerce enablement for Prove.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create a multi-year roadmap with input from internal and external stakeholders
- Consolidate and synthesize learnings and key recommendations from industry/analysts/vendors/consultants into senior management, board, or client strategic presentations
- Collaborate with capability leaders to develop integrated 3 to 5 year strategy.
- Assess strategic gaps and make recommendations for addressing those gaps.
- Coordinate roles and responsibilities to properly execute large scale projects or integrations related to those strategies.
- Promote, maintain and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion, and leadership.
- Strong passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training.
Qualifications and Experience:
- 10+ years of strategic planning experience
- A BS/BA degree or higher in a quantitative discipline
- Ability to coordinate completion of multiple tasks and meet aggressive time frames
- Ability to negotiate, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships
- Ability to present to multiple levels of management and provide strategic vision for an organization
- Ability to synthesize data to form a story and align information to contrast or compare to industry perspective and historical business trends
- Ability to take initiative and work independently with minimal supervision in a structured environment
- Ability to think strategically, implement, and deliver business objectives
- Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) skills
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Facilitation skills, including ability to facilitate decision-making and broker agreements amongst diverse, differing, and/or conflicting perspectives/priorities
- Knowledge and understanding of strategic roadmap coordination and development
- Outstanding problem solving and decision-making skills
- Strong strategic and conceptual thinking skills
- Experience articulating a complex problem, design, or build strategy
- Strategic planning experience in translating leadership vision into executable strategies and initiatives
- Ability to analyze trends in the competitive marketplace and related marketing developments
- Experience with strategy development and implementation
- Knowledge and understanding of authentication and identity verification (phone, digital, in person) with emphasis on customer strategies preferred
- Experience in cybersecurity, fintech, or fast-growing startup is required
- Experience in a high-growth tech startup growing from $50m to $200m in ARR
- Promote, maintain and enhance our cultural values of humility, passion, inclusion, and leadership.
- Strong passion for learning about our products and markets through in-house and external training.
- Experience in high-growth /pre-IPO Technology companies
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. The position description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the positions. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
The anticipated salary range for this role is $175,000 - $195,000 plus company bonus. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, geo-location and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Benefits & Perks for FTE Provers:
- Competitive salaries & Bonus Plan (for eligible roles) and Equity Plan
- 401(k) Retirement (Pension) Plan & Match
- Comprehensive medical benefits for you and your family
- Emotional & Physical Wellness – Access to wellness services (EAP, Gympass, Prove Well-Being Reimbursement)
- Unlimited Vacation and Flexible hours
- Bottomless snacks & beverages for all office locations
- $15 daily GrubHub stipend for lunch if coming into the office.
- A great place to work and connect with other talented Provers like yourself!
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Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Prove we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions.
Prove is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics.
What We Do
Prove is the leader in mobile & digital identity authentication for the connected world. We're trusted by the world's largest banks, insurers, brokerages & technology companies to enable effortless customer experiences by instantly authenticating new user account openings, mobile & web logins, text & chat sessions, and call center calls.
Why Work With Us
At Prove we made a contrarian bet that the way in which mobile phones instantly authenticated themselves would solve fundamental issues with trust on the web. We are proving this thesis by authenticating 10,000,000 transactions per day for Tier 1 US banks, says CEO Rodger Desai.
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