What you will need to bring:
We hire for abilities first, because knowledge and skills can be taught and abilities are far harder to build. Here is what we are really looking for.
1. Stakeholder management. You build trust with people at every level and quickly read what actually drives them. People want to work with you, and they tell you the truth.
2. People leadership. You understand what good leadership looks like up close. You know how to find the right levers and use them to bring out strong performance, and you have nudged teams into action in a way that energized them.
3. First principles problem solving. You are sharp with data, analytics, and reasoning. You break unfamiliar problems down to their fundamentals and build your way back up to a clear answer.
4. Ownership. You take a problem and you get it solved, full stop. You enjoy the wins, you own the misses, and you fix them. High accountability, no excuses.
5. Outwork and outsmart. You bring operational rigour and intensity. You find the smarter path, and you also do the work.
6. Independent thinking. You form your own point of view from the inputs in front of you, build conviction, and have the courage to make the call.
7. High agency. You move things forward mostly through influence, rarely through authority. You align people around the company wide goal by convincing them, not commanding them.