Strategy and Operations Manager

About The Role

As Strategy and Operations Manager at Pangea you will play a key role in shaping the future direction of Pangea. You will drive a structured assessment of the market and competitive landscape for compelling new expansion opportunities leveraging our first party data, conducting secondary research and eliciting qualitative/quantitative user insights. You should be intensely curious, a customer advocate, highly quantitative, value rigor and be an excellent written and verbal communicator.

As Strategy and Operations Manager, you'll get to:

• Identify and evaluate new product & market expansion opportunities through competitive assessment, customer research and quantitative analysis
• Build & communicate business cases to quantify opportunities
• Develop a structured roadmap of key hypotheses to validate
• Effectively communicate with executives and the Product team
• Run quantitative focus groups and qualitative research to validate key assumptions and product/market fit of new product opportunities
• Be the in-house expert on our customers, competitors, product offerings and industry trends
  
  
  

The ideal candidate will have:

• An MBA or related degree
• 10+ years of experience with at least 3 years in Management Consulting or Strategy
• Experience motivating new direct to consumer product opportunities
• Excellent research skills, able to size markets & determine benchmarks
• Highly quantitative, able to quickly assess opportunities and build business cases
• Communicate clearly, succinctly, and confidently to an executive audience
• Strong leadership skills and ability to influence others
• Prior experience managing agencies for customer insights or other research needs
• An entrepreneurial mindset and propensity to get out of the building to find answers
• Able to chart out clarity from ambiguity
• Deep understanding of how customers interact with digital products
• Prior experience with payments, customer research or segmentation a plus
  
  
  

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Benefits & Perks:

• Flexible scheduling includes a hybrid work model with in-office days from Tuesday to Thursday and the option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays. Additionally, we offer select fully remote opportunities.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance including mental health benefits
• 401(k) matching plus a ROTH option (U.S. Based employees only)
• PTO & paid holidays off
• Sabbatical program (for eligible roles)
• Paid parental leave
• DEI groups (B.L.A.C.K. @ Enova, HOLA @ Enova, Women @ Enova, Pride @ Enova, South Asians @ Enova, APEX @ Enova, and Parents @ Enova)
• Employee recognition and rewards program
• Charitable matching and a paid volunteer day…Plus so much more!
  
  
  

About Pangea:

Pangea offers a smarter way for people to move money around the world to friends and family. Founded in 2012, Pangea started with a mission to revolutionize the remittance industry by providing customers a powerful, easy-to-use mobile application to send money internationally. Since then, we have grown to offer additional products and services to help underbanked immigrants gain financial independence.

Pangea operates as an independent subsidiary under Enova International (NYSE: ENVA). Also headquartered in Chicago, Enova is a leading financial technology company offering accessible credit to millions of customers. Together, Pangea and Enova are on a mission to help hardworking people get access to fair financial services.

As Pangeans, we value introspection, accountability, empowerment, excellence, and above all, kindness. We believe in a fierce dedication to customer experience. We know that diversity is the key to innovation and creativity. If you have a growth mindset and you thrive under pressure, you’re a great fit for our team!

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