{"id":1262096,"url":"https://alion.io/job/radar-manager-strategic-operations","title":"Manager, Strategic Operations","company":{"id":3777035,"name":"RADAR","domain":"goradar.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/radar-7","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Administrative","role_family":"Administrative","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":120000,"max":154000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":154000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-04T14:28:15Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-04","last_verified_at":"2026-09-30T15:12:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":88,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":88},"description":"ABOUT US\nE-commerce got real-time data infrastructure decades ago. Physical stores still have not. RADAR is changing that.\nRADAR is building the data infrastructure layer for the physical world, starting with retail. Our hardware-enabled SaaS platform uses proprietary overhead sensors, software, and AI-powered analytics to locate every product in a store, continuously, down to the fixture. We are deployed across 1,500+ stores with retailers including American Eagle Outfitters and Old Navy, processing tens of billions of real-world events every day, delivering 99%+ accuracy in complex, noisy environments - at fleet scale.\nRADAR is one of the best-funded companies in retail technology, backed by a recent Series B financing at a $1 billion valuation. Inventory accuracy is only the beginning. We believe RADAR can become foundational infrastructure for the physical economy, powering new AI-driven commerce experiences across retail and beyond.\nJoin us if you want to work on a large, unsolved, technically challenging problem with an ambitious team building category-defining technology.\nOUR VALUES\nMission-Driven: We're transforming retail with cutting-edge technology and building something that truly matters.\nCollaborative Team: We thrive on curiosity, shared goals, and solving complex problems together.\nHigh Impact: You’ll make meaningful contributions from day one and help shape the future of our product and company.\nClear Communication: We value honesty, humility, and respectful dialogue-everyone’s voice matters.\nBalanced Lives: We work hard, but not at the expense of well-being. We respect time, boundaries, and life outside of work.\nDiverse Perspectives: We believe better ideas come from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints.\nEmpathy-Driven Design: We build with deep respect for our end users, listening closely to their feedback and needs.\nABOUT THE JOB\nWe are seeking a Manager, Strategic Operations to bridge the gap between executive vision and ground-level execution. This role brings discipline and structure to how RADAR plans, prioritizes, and delivers on its most critical initiatives, while surfacing the cross-functional themes and operational signals that matter most as we scale. \nYou will work closely with all teams, including Finance, Product, Go To Market, Engineering, Customer and Legal teams, to gather insights, align stakeholders, move complex projects forward and propose solutions. This role blends analytical thinking with hands-on execution. You will be a key member of the team that shapes the way RADAR operates.\nResponsibilities:\nStrategic planning and alignment\nSupport the VP Brand Strategy on planning the company’s annual and quarterly strategic planning process.\nTranslate company strategy into project plans with clear ownership, that connect to meaningful business outcomes\nMaintain a cross functional view across the business to ensure alignment to the strategic priorities\nOperating rhythm and accountability\nEstablish and maintain structured meeting cadences including cross functional strategic priority presentations, business reviews, and project updates.\nTrack progress against strategic goals and KPIs and drive accountability across teams.\nCross-functional execution\nServe as a central coordinator across engineering, product, customer, commercial, legal and other functions.\nMaintain visibility into risks, interdependencies, and resource constraints, proactively flagging issues and recommending course corrections.\nIn partnership with the VP of Brand Strategy, shepherd the full portfolio of strategic priorities from planning through execution, working across Engineering, Product, Go-to-Market, Finance, Customer, and Legal teams to maintain alignment and deliver results.\nProcess and program management\nIntroduce and standardize project management tools, templates, and governance frameworks.\nContinuously refine processes and workflows to increase efficiency, predictability, and cross-team collaboration.\nOperational Intelligence & Special Projects\nDrive highly-cross functional special projects that span multiple teams but do not neatly fit within any of them, defining project scope, success metrics, and execution plans in ambiguous environments\nConduct deep-dive analyses to inform strategic decision-making\nTranslate insights into clear recommendations and actionable plans for leadership\nStrategic Communication\nDevelop and maintain an internal communications calendar to track top down strategic messaging to the organization and support culture change\nABOUT YOU\nRequired:\n7+ years of program management experience, preferably in technology and/or high-growth startup environments, with proven success leading cross-functional programs\nBig picture to tactical execution - can take projects from planning through execution to completion with measurable outcomes\nSolutions-first mindset\nAnalytical skills, comfortable conducting deep-dive analyses and translating complex findings into clear recommendations\nExceptional communication and stakeholder management - Relationship builder across all levels\nStrong business acumen and high emotional intelligence\nFamiliarity with program and project management tools and methodologies.\nA builder's mindset: comfortable operating in environments where the structures, processes, and norms are still being established.\nPreferred:\nPrior experience in retail technology.\nExperience coaching non-PM business leaders to adopt project management best practices.\nExperience in resource planning, capacity management, and cross-functional coordination in small to medium sized teams.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nIn your first 30 days, you will:\nLearn RADAR's mission, technology platform, and business model\nBuild credibility by meeting with leadership, cross-functional stakeholders, and owners of key initiatives, listening first while forming your point of view on priorities, dependencies, and gaps\nListen for patterns across teams including where execution is strong, where growth is creating strain, and what's slowing people down\nGet hands on with existing tools, processes and project tracking and meeting cadences to understand how decisions are currently being made and where the operating rhythm has gaps\nIn your first 60 days, you will:\nIdentify quick wins and longer term structural gaps, and start sequencing the work\nTake ownership of at least one cross functional meeting cadence or workstream, showing up as a coordinator and driver\nSurface high impact special projects through cross-functional discovery that will accelerate growth \nHave developed process that supports structured decision making and cross functional communication, ensuring decisions are not made in silos\nEnsure active projects have clear timelines, owners, as well as the “right” cross functional stakeholders involved\nBegin building the internal communications calendar to bring structure and visibility to top down strategic messaging\nIn your first 90 days, you will:\nHave built foundational frameworks including templates, governance models and decision making processes, that the teams are already relying on\nBe driving measurable progress on RADAR's most critical cross-functional initiatives, bringing structure, clarity, and momentum where it's needed most\nProactively bring recommendations and course corrections to leadership\nHave established yourself as a trusted go-to resource and someone who makes hard things easier and keeps the organization moving forward\nAt RADAR, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The expected base salary range for this position is $120,000-$154,000. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience and relevant education or training.You will also be eligible to receive other benefits including: equity, comprehensive medical and dental coverage, life and disability benefits, 401k plan, flexible time off, and paid parental leave. The pay range listed for this position is a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting. \nResearch has shown that women & underrepresented minorities are more likely to read lists of requirements and consider themselves unqualified if they don't meet every single one. 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