Overview:

TrialPay is a hot Internet company in the heart of Silicon Valley and a leader in online payments. We’re looking for a Product Strategist to help define the future path of one of our primary initiatives and to make it happen. If you are a current or recent Analyst from a top-tier management consulting company, read on. This is a great opportunity to take what you’ve learned in consulting and make a real difference at a real company.

About TrialPay:

TrialPay (www.trialpay.com) is changing the world of e-commerce. We're building a payments and promotions platform that uses efficiencies of the Web and a patent-pending optimization engine to increase revenue for e-commerce sites. The company's revenue has grown faster in its first two years than Google or Amazon. Entering its third year, the company has served more than 40 million users and is continuing its trend of triple-digit revenue growth year-over-year.

TrialPay is backed by leading venture capitalists including: Index Ventures (Skype, MySQL, last.fm), Battery Ventures (Akamai, InfoSpace, MetroPCS), Atomico (Skype, last.fm, Kazaa), Bob Pittman (former AOL president and founder of MTV), Ron Conway (Google, PayPal, Twitter), and executives from several top Internet companies.

TrialPay is offering the chance to work on the ground floor of a fast-growing, financially strong company. We hire great people and encourage them to achieve their potential. Our company culture is defined by high energy, sharp intellect, creativity and collaboration. We believe in hard work, a fun, open atmosphere, and the autonomy to push one’s limits. If you are exceptional at what you do, you're a passionate team player and you want to have an impact on millions of people, then we'd love to hear from you!

About the Opportunity:

We are looking for a star analyst from a premier strategy consulting firm to drive our future product strategy for our e-commerce business. As we continue to grow our business at a rapid pace, we need a product strategist to deliver critical path recommendations, including pricing, product roadmap and features, and go-to-market strategy. The individual should be sharp analytically, creative in solving new and unstructured problems, and proactive in reaching out to employees across the company to deliver a holistic strategy.

This is a terrific role for someone graduating or recently graduated from an analyst role at a top strategy consulting firm to apply their skills to a fast-paced, real-world environment. The role provides an excellent path from solving discrete problems to shaping and owning a real product strategy, with the satisfaction of driving through implementation in a short timeframe.

Responsibilities:

• Competitive assessment (e.g., what are strengths and weaknesses of each competitor so we can build the right product and the right messaging?)
• Market assessment (e.g., what does the market look like; what are the issues that matter to each segment; who should we target?)
• Product roadmap planning (e.g., what do we have to build and when in order to dominate the market?)
• Operational improvements (e.g., how do we improve key internal processes?)

Required Skills/Experience:

Professional Qualifications:

• 1-2 years experience in strategy consulting for a top-tier consulting firm (e.g., Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey, Booz Allen, etc.)
  
• 1 or 2 years in the software or Internet space would be a further asset
• Bachelors degree from a top-tier school
• Expertise in Excel, PowerPoint
• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities

Personal Characteristics:

• Must be able to deliver solutions to unstructured problems
• Strong understanding of team dynamics and an ability to communicate with everyone in the organization (i.e., engineering, sales, marketing, etc.)
• Resourcefulness; ability to operate in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
• Strong organization skills with attention to detail

Job Type:
Full-time employment (OR) contract

Reports to:
Vice President, Product

Location:
Mountain View, CA

More on TrialPay:

We share an open, friendly and intellectually stimulating work environment among our team of 80+ employees. They hail from top universities and some of the most successful Internet companies. (Although, they probably wouldn't bring this up unless you asked.)

We're located in downtown Mountain View, California. Our office is walking distance to CalTrain and is surrounded by great restaurants, pubs and coffee shops. Apart from the cornucopia of edibles, every day is punctuated with a social gathering around the “exotic fruit social hour.” On Friday afternoons, the smell of tasty food wafts from the kitchen throughout the office to tempt employees to put down their work and start to socialize for “Balcony Fridays.” TrialPay has hosted wine and beer tastings, trivia nights, poker tournaments... and there’s a rumor of a karaoke night on the horizon. And every once in a while, a full-scale (foam) dart-gun battle breaks out in the office and pits marketing vs. engineering, BD vs. advertising and sends anyone else in the office running for cover.

TrialPay offers excellent benefits for its full-time employees, including health/medical/dental and three weeks of vacation. Plus, we provide many other perks, including: CalTrain reimbursement and 3G cards for commuters, Mac laptops, telecommuting options and regular company get-togethers.