Strategy & Insights Lead

Sonar solves the trillion-dollar challenge of bad code. Sonar equips organizations to achieve and sustain a Clean Code state by empowering developers to write consistent, intentional, adaptable, and responsible code. Clean Code produces software that is maintainable, reliable, and secure, allowing development teams to spend less time fixing issues and more time innovating. With Sonar, and by employing the company’s Clean as You Code methodology, organizations minimize risk, reduce technical debt, increase productivity, and derive more value from their software in a predictable and sustainable way.

Sonar’s open-source and commercial products – SonarLint, SonarCloud, and SonarQube – support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Trusted by more than 500,000 organizations and used by more than 7 million developers globally to clean more than half a trillion lines of code, Sonar is integral to delivering better software.

The impact you can have

As Strategy and insights Lead, you will work with the VP of Strategy and insights, brand, and team, and business colleagues to build customer/user insight and ensure this understanding drives actionable programs in our strategic plans. Your work will directly contribute to our objective of becoming a more customer—and user-driven business.

On a daily basis, you will

• Build competitive and ecosystem intelligence to support strategic planning
• Support the preparation of market context analysis and insights, packaged into compelling pre-reads and presentations to facilitate strategic discussions and business performance reviews
• Conduct strategic research and analysis into customer/user pain points and opportunity areas to bring a deeper understanding of the business and drive actions
• Leverage quantitative and qualitative data from across available sources, conduct analysis, build new reports/dashboards, synthesize into compelling insights
• Partner with GTM, Product, and Mission Control teams as needed, to integrate customer/user insight into team plans
• Conduct as-needed research and analytics to build a deeper understanding of our market and customer/user needs and behaviors to guide strategic programs and communications
• Conduct user behavior modeling to help enhance proactive customer relationship management
• Build strong working relationships across the business
• Identify initiatives to improve our customer/user metrics, and develop them into actionable programs within our strategic plans

The skills you demonstrate

• 5+ years of experience in management consulting, private equity, corporate strategy, or equivalent experience in a SaaS company
• Experience working cross-functionally across a business leading strategic initiatives
• Comfort with ambiguity and working within a growing organization
• Ability to self-start, break down strategic questions, plan work, and coordinate as-needed collaboration, and confidence to know when to operate autonomously and when to check in for guidance and support
• Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to influence people and build ongoing stakeholder relationships

Why you will love it here

• We value a safe work culture - founded in respect, kindness, and the right to fail.

• We hire great people - we value communication skills as much as technical prowess and we strive to create a work environment that allows for everyone to succeed and feel empowered to do their best work. Our 500+ SonarSourcers from 35 different nationalities can relate!

• Work-life balance - a healthy work-life balance is very important at Sonar.

• Flexible hours - we schedule our days in order to be effective at work, while also being able to enjoy life’s important moments.

• We promote continuous learning - in an ever-changing industry, learning new skills is the key to growth and success! We're happy to support all employees in this journey if desired.

What we do

As Home of Clean Code, Sonar is the ultimate solution to achieving Clean Code for developers and organizations alike.

The company was formed to develop the open-source tool SonarQube, which has since become the go-to standard in code quality management. We strive every day to pave the way for developers, tackling the toughest issues head-on and pushing the limits of what’s possible.

Who we are

At Sonar we believe in people, dedication, and innovation. We’re a team of problem solvers who are passionate and relentless in their respective missions. We want to work with people who are ready and willing to fasten their seat belts and be part of an incredible ride!

Our Core Values are: Smarter Together, Excellence, Innovation, and Delivery. They reflect our unique culture and we expect them to help shape and positively strengthen our organization.

If you want to learn more about our culture, check out our blog post.

Join us; we’ll be smarter and stronger together!

Sonar is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to treating every employee with equal respect and fairness. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy toward any form of discrimination. All candidates will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.