Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives

About the Role

The Strategic Initiatives team leads mission critical, cross-functional initiatives in service of driving Chime’s growth and developing and scaling exceptional member experience. We deliver objective analysis and insights, incubate new roles, and execute on strategic priorities. In this role, you may dig into helping us unlock new revenue opportunities, improve key user experiences, or evaluate and improve core business processes. Whatever it is, we work on what will move the needle most for Chime. If you thrive when tackling hard problems, are analytical, and like to collaborate, we want to hear from you.

For Colorado based roles: In accordance with applicable law, this role has an annual starting salary of $170,000 plus bonus, a competitive equity package, and benefits (see below). The actual pay may be higher depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to 

• Identify, analyze, and deploy strategic opportunities to drive Chime’s growth
• Lead and carry out cross-functional strategic initiatives sponsored by Chime senior executives across risk, customer support, marketing, business development, and other teams
• Define and implement key business processes to enable Chime to operate efficiently at scale
• Deeply understand core company metrics and convert insights on their performance into actionable initiatives
• Influence decisions by providing thought leadership and building consensus through collaboration across a multitude of senior leaders
• Persuasively communicate your recommendations and lead discussions with senior leaders

To thrive in this role, you have

• Are adept in bringing clear and logical structure to ambiguous questions
• Are highly analytical and think from first principles
• Are driven by results and enjoy doing whatever it takes to deliver on complex projects
• Have demonstrated ability to develop and lead end to end cross-functional operational and strategic initiatives with key partners at the senior executive level
• Have a low ego and have a flair for collaborating with a wide range of people at all levels of the organization
• Have the ability to distill complex analysis into clear executive level communications
• Have at least 10-12 years of work experience, including:
• Delivering projects at the Project Leader/Case Team Leader/Engagement Manager level or above at a top-tier management consulting firm
• Working within a high-growth startup (fintech experience a plus)

A little about us

We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances. 

Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking partners, we offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more!

We’ve built one of the most experienced leadership teams in Fintech and were recently valued at over $25.5B. We’ve raised over $1.7B in funding from leading investors including Sequoia Capital Global Equities, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DST, Coatue, Iconiq, Menlo Ventures and others.

What we offer

• 💰 Competitive salary based on experience
• ✨ 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• 🏝 Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days
• 🖥  Virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers- think cooking classes, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights, etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
• 💚  A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help create a completely new kind of banking service

We know that great work comes from great, and inclusive teams. At Chime, we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice. 

Chime requires employees to be fully vaccinated (and boosted if eligible) against COVID-19 in order to work in one of its offices, join Company-sponsored activities, or travel for business purposes. This job may require periodic office attendance and/or business travel and therefore candidates will need to be eligible for these activities by their start date.

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