Principal, Founder's Office

Company Overview

CommerceIQ’s AI-powered digital commerce platform is revolutionizing the way brands sell online. Our unified ecommerce management solutions empower brands to make smarter, faster decisions through insights that optimize the digital shelf, increase retail media ROI and fuel incremental sales across the world’s largest marketplaces. With a global network of more than 900 retailers, our end-to-end platform helps 2,200+ of the world’s leading brands streamline marketing, supply chain, and sales operations to profitably grow market share in more than 50 countries. Learn more at commerceiq.ai.

The Role:

The Head of Executive Operations (HoE) is a pivotal role within CommerceIQ, serving as a prominent strategic partner to our CEO. This position plays a critical role in enabling effective decision-making, overseeing project management, and driving the execution of strategic initiatives across the organization. The HoE establishes and maintains the essential organizational and communication framework that allows our customers, employees, and leadership team members to translate the CEO's vision into tangible results, ensuring the achievement of annual goals. A forward-thinking and visionary individual, the HoE is committed to long-term planning and projects that pave the way for our organization's growth and the triumph of our CEO. 

As a HoE, you will be the unseen force propelling our CEO's vision forward, wielding the power to influence and impact every facet of our organization, from the boardroom to the front lines. This role offers a unique opportunity for personal and professional growth, preparing aspiring executives for future leadership roles within CommerceIQ and beyond. This role allows you to get a birds-eye-view of all roles in a growing startup, offering a view into what a career in each of the roles could be - and a feeder to important leadership positions. Join us on this transformative journey, where your contributions will shape the future of CommerceIQ.

The role is quite standard in Venture funded companies and has been a platform for many successful execs in the valley Please review the following link to get a good overview of the role: Exec Ops role (6 min)

Why the HoE Matters

At CommerceIQ, we believe that the HoE is a force multiplier; the CEO’s right hand ; a strategic partner that helps build and run a wildly successful business. You will serve as a critical leader in the following areas: 

• Special Projects: An extra set of hands to help with strategic priorities on anything from Product to Growth.
• Company Strategy: A strategic advisor and confidant (a highly trusted person with whom to discuss and pressure‐test ideas).
• Business Operations: An organizer to help manage a picture of the priories, projects, decisions, and actions that should be in the brain space of the CEO.

What You'll Do:

• Communications Director: Relay information between executive team members and other staff members. Attend board meetings, provide an overall picture of productivity to executives and stakeholders, and transmit information to department heads.
• Strategic Advisor: Provide data analysis and metrics of the company’s productivity to the executive team, and suggest strategic initiatives to improve workflow, teamwork, and budget management.
• Program Manager: Determine performance indicators for the company and deliver those metrics to board members.
• Chief Coordinator: Manage essential daily tasks that frequently exceed the bandwidth of executive team members, including the facilitation of project coordination and the oversight of business administration in collaboration with department leaders.
• Master Organizer: Partner closely with the CEO's Executive Assistant to design and implement a strategic framework that empowers the CEO to focus on high-impact tasks efficiently.
• Problem Solver: Wield decision-making power to identify employee issues and provide workable solutions, then communicate only the pertinent details to the executive team and board members, who may or may not follow up with additional direction.
• Special Projects Team Leader: Assess the risk, cost, and work required for new initiatives and special projects from the CEO and/or board, as well as facilitate and oversee the project to completion. 
• Trusted Operator: Manage sensitive and/or confidential information with a high level of discretion.
• Expert Facilitator: Manage conversations, synthesize multiple points of vi