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Happy Monday!
Careers these days are weird - especially in the startup world. Teams grow fast, your responsibilities change on the fly, and good luck finding time to figure out how to get the experience you need to take the next step. Mentors, colleagues, and friends are helpful, but it’s not really their job to help you figure out what you want from your career, navigate that tough relationship with your manager, or come up with tactical plans to start your entrepreneurial journey.
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Business Solutions Lead
Why this is a great job
Banza’s on a tear recently. With a newly-announced round of funding and a product that both plays into the contemporary diet trends and tastes damn good, they’re looking to dominate the pasta aisle (and beyond!). If you love making things more efficient and designing systems that allow teams to scale, there will be a lot for you to love in this role.
The nitty gritty
Company website: www.eatbanza.com
Who you’d be working with: Chris, VP of Insights & Analytics
Fundraising: $28m total, including $20m announced ~2 weeks ago
Who we are
Banza is on a mission to make nutritious food more accessible. Our first product, a delicious pasta made from chickpeas, is the fastest growing pasta brand in the country. In just five years we’ve gone from an idea to a product in 12,000 stores, and today Banza is the #1 pasta brand in Whole Foods and Target. We’ve been named one of TIME’s 25 Best Inventions of the year, appeared on the Today show and Good Morning America, been in the New York Times, and most importantly, brought a better pasta to millions of happy customers. Our sights are set on more than pasta night; we recently launched chickpea mac & cheese and chickpea rice, which are transforming mealtimes across the country, and there’s more to come.
Your mission
Identify, select and implement technology-enabled solutions that will help our business scale. Work cross-departmentally to understand the tools the team needs to do their best work and allow the company to keep pace with rapidly expanding demand. Quickly assume your role as the technical leader within the Insights & Analytics department, and eventually within the entire company as you (and Banza) grow.
What you’ll do
Work with leadership to develop a roadmap of systems upgrades and overhauls based the organization’s most pressing needs; move through these projects with incredible efficiency by bringing together carefully selected outsourced partners, key internal stakeholders, and, most importantly, your own expertise and industriousness
Define and document the flow of data throughout the organization; improve data integrity by optimizing how information is collected and stored and understanding the decisions it will inform
Take a professional and consultant-like approach to your work that reflects your experience working with clients on complex, mission-critical initiatives
Use your understanding of (or self-teach) UI/UX basics as you find and create tools that receive heavy use by the rest of the team
Bring enormous amounts of positive energy as you champion some of the most complex and data-intensive projects at the company
Join a team of 3 in the Insights & Analytics department tasked with collecting, structuring, analyzing, and disseminating the organization's data to facilitate superior decision-making and create harmony across departments and functions
Who you are
An integration, implementation, or enterprise tech-focused consultant with 4+ years of experience at a top firm
A uniquely well-rounded engineer (or at least someone with an engineer’s outlook) who is eager to move at a much faster pace
An exceptional project manager with the ability to create structure and get buy-in at all levels
An energetic and ambitious rising star eager to learn the inner workings of a disruptive consumer goods company
A big pasta fan who is passionate about Food & Beverage and the Consumer Products industry more generally
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