Strategy Manager, Office CEO

Team: Office of the CEO
Reports to: Founder & CEO
Location: Sawtelle, Los Angeles, CA (onsite, five days per week)
Employment type: Full-time, salaried, exempt
Base salary: $150,000 to $180,000, plus equity

Plug's Founder & CEO needs someone who can take the company's most important open questions (where to grow, what the numbers are really saying, whether an opportunity is worth pursuing) and come back with the analysis, a recommendation, and a plan to execute it. This is an analytical role first. It is not an administrative Chief of Staff, EA, or PMO role.

Plug is an automotive fintech startup building the marketplace for electric vehicles. Consumers, dealers, and commercial partners trade in, sell, and auction used EVs through a platform built exclusively for electric, with nothing adapted from legacy automotive.

Consumers get an instant cash offer in minutes, backed by data-driven pricing and battery state-of-health analysis, with pickup, payment, and title transfer handled end to end. Franchise and independent dealers across the United States bid in real time on inventory sourced directly from consumers, dealers, and commercial partners. The result is a single platform that gives sellers a fast, fair exit and gives dealers a dedicated channel for sourcing used EV inventory.

Founded in 2023 and led by former Tesla executives, Plug has facilitated $150M in EV sales since launch and is backed by a $20M Series A from Lightspeed Venture Partners. We're building the most AI-native startup team in Los Angeles: operators, engineers, and ML researchers laying the transaction rails for the used EV market's exponential growth.

As Plug grows, the number of priorities competing for the CEO's attention is growing with it. Many of the most important ones don't sit neatly inside one function: a marketplace economics question, a new market to evaluate, a board discussion that needs a sharper answer, a strategic tradeoff with incomplete data.

You'll own that work. You'll take a loosely defined problem, structure it, get to the data, form a point of view, and drive it to a decision and then to execution. You'll work directly with the Founder & CEO and across Plug's leadership team.

Take important, ambiguous problems off the CEO's plate and come back with a better answer than he'd have gotten by doing the work himself. Then make sure it gets done.

Business analysis and recommendations. Own the CEO's hardest analytical questions: marketplace liquidity, unit economics, pricing, growth, and customer behavior. Form hypotheses, pull and pressure-test the data yourself, and land on a recommendation with clear tradeoffs.

CEO strategic projects. Lead high-priority, cross-functional projects end to end. Define the problem, structure the work, drive to a decision, and hand off or execute.

New opportunities and business cases. Size markets and evaluate new products, segments, and partnerships. Build the model and the business case, and tell the CEO whether it's worth pursuing and why.

Market and competitive intelligence. Track EV, automotive retail, and fintech dynamics and competitors. Distill them into implications for Plug, not summaries.

Board, investor, and fundraising materials. Own the analysis and narrative behind board decks, investor updates, and fundraising materials. Gather inputs across the company and turn them into a clear, defensible story.

AI-native execution. Use AI aggressively for research, analysis, synthesis, drafting, and workflow automation. We're looking for someone who naturally asks, "How can I do this faster and better?" before adding process or headcount.

Driving CEO priorities to completion. Once a decision is made, make sure it happens. Turn CEO and leadership-team decisions into clear owners and next steps, and keep the handful of priorities that matter most moving. The subject matter will change as the company grows.

Continuous improvement. Look for friction in how we make decisions and get work done. Identify what's slow, manual, repetitive, or no longer serving us, and fix it with data, AI, automation, or simply a better way of working. Don't preserve a process because "that's how we've always done it."

• You've led several CEO-sponsored projects from question to decision to execution, and at least one has materially changed a Plug decision on pricing, market entry, or resource allocation.

• The CEO hands you ambiguous questions without a…