Strategy & Operations, Financial Services

We're looking for a smart, resourceful, and analytically strong individual to join our Financial Services team as Strategy & Operations - Financial Services. This role is an opportunity to help build and scale a growing business within Clutch, working across Product, Engineering, Data, Marketing, Sales, and our external lending partners. We're looking for a high-agency generalist who can flex across different problems, bring structure to ambiguity, and independently take ideas from analysis through execution.

Responsibilities

Lead strategic initiatives across Financial Services, from identifying opportunities through analysis, execution, and measurement; Help identify and execute opportunities to grow the financing and insurance business and expand the number of customers served; Build business cases, analyses, reports, and recommendations independently to drive decision-making; Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data, Marketing, and Sales to improve the product offering and customer journey; Translate business problems into actionable solutions, including digging into data, building a mockup, or helping define a new product or process; Move quickly from identifying a problem to testing and implementing solutions; Analyze customer, funnel, and financial performance to identify opportunities and inform strategy; Bring a Financial Services lens to product and business decisions across Clutch; Build and manage relationships with major Canadian lenders and other external partners; Take initiative to learn new tools and technologies with minimal handholding; Use AI and modern tools to analyze problems, build faster, and improve how the team operates; Thrive in an environment where many problems do not come with an existing playbook

Requirements

4+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy & operations, product, fintech, financial services, or a high-performing startup environment; Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to solve complex business problems; Proven ability to independently own projects from problem definition through execution; Strong builder mentality, comfortable creating the analysis, process, mockup, or solution yourself; Comfortable with ambiguity and able to move quickly across different types of problems; Strong cross-functional skills, particularly working with Product, Engineering, and Data teams; Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; High-agency, curious, and resourceful, taking ownership without waiting to be told what to do

Nice to have

Experience in consumer lending, banking, credit, or fintech; Management consulting experience within Financial Services; Experience working on financial products or partnering closely with Product teams

Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity incentives; Stock options; Health & dental benefits; Comprehensive healthcare, dental, vision, prescriptions, life insurance, and dependent coverage starting from day 1; Freedom to innovate and ownership over meaningful projects; Opportunities for growth and development in a rapidly scaling company; Join a well-funded business with product-market fit and space to drive impact