Director of Strategy & Operations
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About the Role
Moove is seeking a Director of Strategy & Operations to partner with the Co-CEO and President, driving strategic execution and operational excellence. The role owns the leadership team's operating rhythm, converts strategy into clear accountabilities, and builds performance frameworks.
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Responsibilities
- Research, construct, and support long term corporate strategy in partnership with Co CEO and President
- Operationalize the operating model, ensuring business units are aligned and accountable
- Own the executive operating rhythm, leadership meetings, offsites, board and committee reviews
- Translate strategic direction into clear actions, owners, and timelines; hold stakeholders accountable
- Embed OKRs and business performance scorecards in collaboration with People Team
- Prepare and own high stakes outputs: board materials, investor updates, strategic documents
- Identify and deploy AI tools and workflows to increase velocity of Co CEO's office
- Guide decentralization effort, embedding governance structures and decision rights
Requirements
- 6–10 years of experience owning outcomes in high growth or high complexity environments
- Prior experience as Chief of Staff, Director of Strategy & Operations, COO, or senior operator at a high velocity technology company, or equivalent seniority from top tier strategy consulting with operational delivery
- Experience building or running a critical function through rapid growth, transformation, or M&A activity
- Exceptional written communication; produces board quality documents independently
- Ability to process complexity quickly and operate with minimal direction
- AI native; uses AI to increase velocity and experience managing AI enabled workflows
- Fluency across technology, capital markets, and business transformation
- Strong product and technology instincts
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About Moove
- Moove is one of the world's fastest growing mobility infrastructure companies, financing and supplying vehicles to mobility platforms across Africa, Middle East, Asia, and Latin America.
- The company is pre IPO, operating at scale across multiple geographies, and building an AI native business.
About The Role
- The Director of Strategy & Operations serves as a trusted partner to the Co CEO and President, ensuring growth plans are executable and aligned.
- Owns the operating rhythm of the leadership team, converts strategic direction into clear accountabilities, and ensures decisions are structured and actioned.
- Researches and constructs long term corporate strategy, embeds governance and decision rights, and provides forward looking scenario analysis.
What You’ll Be Doing Strategy and Governance
- Research, construct, and support long term corporate strategy in partnership with Co CEO and President; cascade into business unit priorities.
- Operationalise the operating model, ensuring business units are aligned and accountable.
- Guide the decentralisation effort, embedding governance structures and clear decision rights.
- Partner with senior functional leaders to identify and close capability gaps.
- Provide forward looking scenario analysis to feed into future strategy.
What You’ll Be Doing Operating Rhythm and Execution
- Own the executive operating rhythm, leadership meetings, offsites, board and committee reviews.
- Translate strategic direction into clear actions, owners, and timelines; hold stakeholders accountable.
- Identify and remove blockers; drive stalled decisions to resolution.
- Facilitate integration across functions and business units, aligning resources and priorities.
- Identify and escalate risks that may impact business performance or growth.
What You’ll Be Doing Performance and Organizational Effectiveness
- Embed OKRs and business performance scorecards in collaboration with the People Team.
- Ensure business performance outcomes are supported by aligned people performance priorities.
- Manage information flow to and from the Co CEO, surface what requires attention.
Strategic Outputs
- Prepare and own high stakes outputs: board materials, investor updates, strategic documents, executive briefings.
- Lead specific strategic and operational workstreams directly when required.
- Identify and deploy AI tools and workflows to increase velocity and quality of Co CEO’s office.
Experience
- 6–10 years of experience owning outcomes in high growth or high complexity environments.
- Prior experience as Chief of Staff, Director of Strategy & Operations, COO, or senior operator at a high velocity technology company, or equivalent from top tier strategy consulting.
- Experience building or running a critical function through rapid growth, transformation, or M&A activity.
- Demonstrable track record of closing things at pace without loss of quality.
Skills And Capabilities
- Exceptional written communication; produces board quality documents, strategic memos, and executive briefings independently.
- Ability to process complexity quickly, communicate clearly, and operate with minimal direction.
- Genuinely AI native; uses AI to increase personal and team velocity.
- Sufficient fluency across technology, capital markets, and business transformation.
- Strong product and technology instincts.
- Sound judgment on when to act independently and when to escalate.
- Available across geographies and time zones as required.
What Does Success Look Like
- Co CEO and President’s office operates as a high performance execution engine.
- Company’s operating cadence designed, implemented, and running effectively within first 90 days.
- OKRs and performance scorecards embedded and generating actionable insights.
- Governance structures and decision rights documented and operational across all business units.
- Board and investor outputs produced on time to a consistently high standard.
- Strategic workstreams move faster and with greater clarity.
About The Team
- Directly reporting to Co CEO & President, working closely with office of the CEO team.
- Team is collaborative, positive, curious, and engaged.
- Moove is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity.
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