Strategic Initiatives Lead
Abacum · New York City
About this role
## About Abacum Abacum is the leading Business Planning solution for finance teams to drive performance. By automating reporting, enabling collaboration, and simplifying planning and forecasting, we help finance teams shift from number crunching to driving strategic decisions. Founded in 2020 by two former CFOs, we’ve grown into a global team of 100+ people across 30+ nationalities. Headquartered in New York, with offices in Toronto and Barcelona. We’re trusted by industry leaders such as Dish Networks, Strava, BetterUp, Kajabi, JG Wentworth, Abridge, Cortex, and hundreds more. We’ve raised over $100m, closing in June 2025 our $60M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners (with participation from Cathay Innovation, Y Combinator, Atomico, Creandum, and angel operators from Adyen, Zapier, and Twitch). ## Role: Strategic Initiatives Lead This is a hard role to put in a box—on purpose. The Strategic Initiatives Lead reports to the Chief of Staff and works on the problems that matter most to the business right now (not a fixed function). Early projects will likely sit in Growth and then move to GTM broadly, depending on what the company needs and what you’re good at/eager to learn. We’re hiring for a specific way of thinking more than a specific background. This role requires high agency and an extreme sense of ownership. If you build, test, and think from first principles, we want to talk. ## What you’ll own - **Find the wedge:** We have a solid foundation and strong demand generation motion—now it’s time to scale. Identify which channels, content formats, and distribution motions produce predictable pipeline. Run this as a structured research problem, not a campaign calendar. - **Operate AI-natively:** Automate what used to take a team. Build the infrastructure for a real demand engine (e.g., Clay for enrichment, n8n for workflows, AI in the loop wherever it replaces manual work). The expectation isn’t just knowing tools—it’s building with them and enabling others to do the same. - **Own the outcome:** Tackle a focused problem/work stream at a time, scoped with the Chief of Staff, owned end to end. Turn ambiguous questions into clear recommendations or running programs—through research, structuring, and execution. - **Write the playbook:** Your wins become repeatable. Scale winning plays, hand them off to the team, and help build the foundation the function runs on—then move on to the next experiment. ## What we’re looking for - **Structured speed:** Fast because you’re structured—not because you cut corners. You can sit with ambiguity, form a point of view, and act decisively. - **Technical + analytical strength:** Fluency with data and metrics to pressure-test assumptions and translate findings into clear, actionable plans. - **AI mindset:** You have an opinion on where each function should leverage AI and you’re eager to bring others along. - **Bias to action:** Comfortable with ambiguity and proactive about finding opportunities and building without waiting for a brief. ## Why take it AI is changing how buyers find software faster than most demand teams are adapting. Abacum is at the forefront in the FP&A category. Most roles put you in a lane—this one doesn’t. You’ll have visibility into how a Series B company makes decisions, direct access to the Chief of Staff and senior leadership, and a portfolio of projects that actually ship. ## Benefits - Competitive compensation including an equity package - Competitive vacation policy
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