Just in case this is the first time you've visited our website Vend is an award winning web based point of sale software for retail. We're chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software, all of this to make life easier for our retailers. Vend is a fast-growing tech start-up, since launching in 2010 we've now got 10,000+ customers and 650 partners all over the world with more than 150 employees shared between our Auckland, Melbourne, Toronto, Berlin, London & San Francisco offices. If you're familiar with our (and a lot of other SaaS companies) business model you'll know and understand the importance of having a strong emphasis on strategy and market growth. We're looking for someone who can take on this newly created role and huge opportunity. Not only will you be helping to guide our strategic direction, but also you will have the opportunity to be very hands on and travel globally (a lot). The role looks for areas both inside and outside of Vend that are opportunities to grow us even further. Overall you are part leader and part doer who is an experienced visionary, but who knows how to research, plan and deliver data driven decisions that achieve results and overall success. You must be able to fly high, but also operate under the sea (that is just a softer way of saying that you need to think strategically and commercially, but also be able to operate practically). Our CEO or exec team will give you special projects to own, run with and report back on. An example of this could be a new market (country), you might have been either pointed in this direction (by our CEO or exec team) or after doing your own research and modeling decide that this is an area for us to sniff out. In either situation, we will you need to figure it all out in partnership with the exec team to determine if this is a viable growth solution and what resources will we need to achieve success. This could mean jumping on a plane and spending 2, 4, 8, or 12 weeks researching, assessing and or developing contacts (building relationships) in this market and then working collaboratively across the exec team to determine a plan of attack. For instance, how would this impact our product, people, finances, operations and or sales approach. This is your part of the plan as well - ensuring that the market strategy works and we have the right internal people resources and product specifications. Other days you might find yourself making predictions based on data about new markets or ways to develop higher sales or lower churn in some of our existing markets. At Vend, we are data driven and make most (if not all) decisions based on data. You might work across our Data and Analytics team or develop your own data in partnership. Essentially, you need to have a strong commercial acumen and general business sense to be able to make predictions based on this data and have a strong understanding of our product, finance, sales metrics, internal structure, etc (essentially everything that we do and how it all connects together). Keeping the CEO and executive team up to speed on risks, possibilities or opportunities for us. You should have a strong internal knowledge of our business and what impact future decisions will have on our existing teams and resources.