Director of Operations Strategy

🕒 March 13

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Courtyard.io

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11 - 50 employees

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $30M Series A - Courtyard on 2025-07

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📋 Description

• Own the overall inventory strategy across Courtyard’s categories, balancing liquidity, velocity, margin, and customer experience while guiding buying decisions across categories and price tiers. • Partner with Finance and executive leadership to set inventory budgets, category-level buying targets, and risk parameters tied to capital allocation and marketplace demand. • Build and maintain forecasting models that inform buying strategy, inventory exposure, and redemption behavior, continuously refining them using marketplace data and post-buy performance. • Monitor inventory health across aging, redemption exposure, liquidity, and price-band coverage, surfacing risks and recommending corrective actions. • Lead the strategic evaluation and prioritization of new categories and vertical expansion opportunities, including pilots, feasibility assessments, and scaling plans. • Develop decision frameworks that enable fast, disciplined tradeoffs across buying strategy, inventory exposure, and capital risk. • Define and oversee liquidation and de-risking strategies, partnering with Finance and Operations to ensure efficient execution and incorporating insights into future buying strategy. • Serve as a central connector across Inventory, Finance, Product, Operations, and GTM to align planning, supply strategy, and marketplace initiatives. • Partner with Finance on Operations budgeting and financial planning, translating category and inventory strategy into cost assumptions, forecasts, and investment priorities. • Provide executive-level reporting and insights on inventory performance, category growth, capital exposure, and strategic opportunities. • Mentor and support team members while helping design the structure, processes, and tooling needed to scale the inventory strategy function over time.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in operations strategy, marketplace operations, supply chain, or analytics roles • Experience developing inventory strategy, forecasting models, and data-driven decision frameworks • Proven ability to partner with Finance on capital allocation, budgeting, and risk management • Experience launching or expanding product categories, marketplaces, or new business lines • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into clear strategic recommendations • Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives across Product, Operations, and Finance • Experience managing inventory health metrics (liquidity, velocity, aging, margin) • Strong communication skills with experience presenting insights to senior leadership

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage • 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future • $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand • Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being