Business Operations & Strategy Lead

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done seamlessly connecting docs notes projects calendar and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users from individuals to large organizations like Toyota Figma and OpenAI love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

This is an opportunity to serve as a key partner and advisor on Notion's Business Operations team working primarily with our Engineering Product and Design teams. Business Operations is a cross-functional team that partners with senior leaders across the company focusing on high-impact strategic projects and analysis.

In this role you'll independently identify the highest-leverage opportunities define the problem drive execution and keep going. If you thrive when given full ownership and a blank page this role is for you. You'll work hand-in-hand with senior leadership to identify structure and act on the most challenging strategic and operational questions impacting our business. And you’ll use AI to build scalable systems and processes that multiply your impact.

• Proactively surface and prioritize high-impact strategic and operational opportunities and own them end-to-end from scoping through execution

• Work cross-functionally with product engineering and go-to-market leaders to define and implement strategy across all Notion products driving increased value for our users our customers and our business

• Structure complex ambiguous strategic problems for the Notion leadership team defining clear hypotheses and building business cases and quantitative models that will inform and influence our approach

• Work closely with cross-functional leaders to define and manage key drivers of business performance identifying areas of opportunity and incorporating them into your work

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of our competitive positioning by using assessing and developing insights about peer businesses to inform your recommendations

• Deeply understand Notion customers and the broader market landscape to uncover insights that inform your recommendations

• Use AI tools and drive automation to create scalable solutions that combine a broad vision for what is possible with an understanding of the practical demands that constrain them

• 10+ years of strategy experience with 5+ years’ relevant experience in management consulting investment banking or related professional services fields

• Highly structured mindset with a strong focus on driving outcomes and turning data into actionable insights

• Excellent financial modeling skills with strong attention to detail and high standards for quality

• Outstanding executive-level written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to operate independently with senior stakeholders and manage relationships deliverables and timelines with minimal supervision

• Genuine enthusiasm for and proficiency with AI tools; we use AI across the board to move faster and work smarter and you do too

• Hands-on experience with modern AI tools like Notion AI Claude Codex or similar is expected; you should be actively experimenting with new models and workflows not just aware they exist

• Deep understanding of AI SaaS business models monetization strategies and pricing frameworks or a strong demonstrated ability to get up to speed quickly

• Data self-sufficiency; knowledge of SQL is required

• Comfort working in a high-growth constantly changing environment with passion and enthusiasm

• You don’t need to be an AI expert but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results

• Prior experience in strategy and operations in B2B SaaS businesses

• Prior people management experience

• Proficiency in Python or R for data analysis and modeling

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart share our company values and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race color religion national origin age sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) marital status ancestry physical or mental disability genetic information veteran status gender identity or expression sexual orientation or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation equity and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location the role’s scope and complexity and the candidate’s experience and expertise and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco the estimated base salary range for this role is $230000 - $260000 per year.

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What We Do

Notion blends your everyday work tools into one. Product roadmap? Company wiki? Meeting notes? With Notion they're all in one place and totally customizable to meet the needs of any workflow. It's the all-in-one workspace for you your team and your whole company. Mission: We humans are toolmakers by nature but most of us can't build or modify the software we use every day — arguably our most powerful tool. Here at Notion we're on a mission to make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.

Why Work With Us

Here at Notion our work shapes our culture and our culture inspires our work. We seek to hire creative toolmakers that want to be the best in their craft. If every employee is able to focus on being the best toolmaker in their craft we'll be able to achieve our mission of enabling the world to better solve its problems.

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