Business Planning And Central Operations Director in Canada

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Sitting within the broader Safety & Customer Care team, Lyft's Customer Care Operations organization manages over 1.7 million monthly customer interactions and serves as the company's primary direct touchpoint with riders, drivers, and businesses — spanning frontline support across multiple customer segments, a global BPO workforce, and the central functions that enable them to operate at scale. The Director of Business Planning & Central Operations is a newly created role at the center of how Customer Care runs and grows. This leader will ensure the org is resourced and positioned for the future, and will own the functions that keep Customer Care financially disciplined and execution-ready. Reporting to the Senior Director of Customer Care Operations, they will lead five functions: Planning & Forecasting, Workforce Management, Readiness & Integration, Vendor Management, and Support Excellence. What You'll Do Business Planning & Strategy Partner with the Senior Director to drive H1 and H2 planning — translating annual objectives into operational plans, investment decisions, and resource models. Lead the investment brief process: sizing opportunities, articulating trade-offs, and building the business cases that secure resourcing for strategic priorities. Drive capacity planning, scenario modeling, and long-range forecasting to ensure the internal and external workforce scales efficiently alongside platform growth and AI adoption. Define and operationalize OKRs across the portfolio, then build the rhythms and infrastructure — scorecards, business reviews, and performance dashboards — that hold teams accountable and give leadership clear visibility into progress and outcomes. Growth & Integrations Lead operational readiness for major product launches, external partnerships, and

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft's Customer Care Operations organization manages over 1.7 million monthly customer interactions and serves as the company's primary direct touchpoint with riders, drivers, and businesses — spanning frontline support across multiple customer segments, a global BPO workforce, and the central functions that enable them to operate at scale. The Senior Manager of Support Excellence owns the enablement infrastructure that determines whether Lyft's support operation can scale efficiently, react nimbly, and maintain high standards: Knowledge Management, Quality, Learning & Performance, and Tooling Enablement. This is not a role for someone who wants to maintain and optimize — it's a role for someone who wants to reimagine. The right person brings a bold, integrated vision for how these functions work together with Operations, Product, and Technology to improve customer outcomes and accelerate Lyft's evolution into an AI-native, human-enhanced support organization. They will set the direction, hold the bar, and move at the pace the environment demands — with the industry expertise to know what "great" looks like and the conviction to pursue it. Reporting to the Director of Business Planning & Central Operations, this role leads a team of 4-6 direct reports and 40-50 indirects, each owning a distinct function on the team team. Responsibilities: Vision & Strategy Define and own an ambitious, integrated vision for how Knowledge Management, Quality, Learning & Performance, and Tooling Enablement work together — not as separate functions, but as a unified enablement system that improves customer outcomes and advances Lyft's AI-native support evolution. Expand active AI fluency to every function in the portfolio — from how knowledge is structured for AI retrieval, to how quality signals feed mod

About the Team AI Research Lab is one of DoorDash’s frontier innovation hubs, focused on building the foundation for an AI-native future across our three core audiences: consumers, merchants, and dashers. As AI capabilities accelerate, the AI Research Lab operates at the center of technical exploration and real-world execution — connecting frontier model research, internal platform investments, operator teams, and strategic external partners. Our mission is to translate cutting-edge AI research into scalable, production-ready systems that drive measurable business impact. We combine deep technical rigor with strong operational execution to ensure that breakthrough capabilities become durable competitive advantages for DoorDash. About the Role As an Associate Manager, Strategy & Operations on our AI Research Lab, you will play a central role in converting frontier AI advancements into shipped products and scalable infrastructure. You will operate across research, product, and operations to move from early discovery and experimentation to deployment and impact. This role sits at the intersection of customer insight, technical innovation, and business execution. You will help define and scale the Lab’s most important bets while building the foundations that enable AI applications to compound over time. You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will … Reimagining core experiences through AI, such as the merchant journey, by partnering directly with in-field merchants, sales, support, product, and engineering teams. You will help unify major initiatives into a coherent, AI-native interaction model. Own revenue-driving AI initiatives, operating as the accountable business owner for high-priority AI bets and ensuring clear linkage between technical progress and financial outcomes. Lead business planning cycles, developing go-to-market strategies for AI-powered products and capabilities, overseeing execution through structured project plans, resource allocation,

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. We are building out Finance business operations to drive disciplined execution of both organic and inorganic initiatives, including M&A integration, strategic programs (AVs, Luxury), and other new product initiatives (NPIs). This is a strategy-to-execution role that requires strong judgment, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to drive outcomes in ambiguous, high-stakes environments. We are seeking a high-impact Finance BizOps leader to sit at the center of this effort, owning finance integration execution (in partnership with Lyft’s Corp Dev IMO), NPI financial readiness, and the intake/governance layer that connects Finance to the company’s most strategic initiatives. This role is the operating backbone for Finance – ensuring acquisitions integrate seamlessly, new products launch cleanly, and Finance work is prioritized with rigor and transparency. As the company scales, the volume and complexity of strategic initiatives—M&A, new products, and cross-functional programs—continues to increase. This role establishes a centralized operating model that ensures: Strategic initiatives are executed with discipline and completeness Finance is embedded early and effectively ensuring strong planning to execution across multiple teams to deliver strong customer and business results The organization scales without accumulating operational debt or technical debt Responsibilities: Strategic program Readiness Act as the central Finance lead for new product initiatives and large strategic programs Build strong working relationships with key product and business leaders and stay “in the know” on planned launches Partner with Finance SMEs, Product, Engineering, and GTM teams to ensure: Financial workflows and requirements are defined Systems, processes, and financ

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. We are looking for a high-impact Legal Operations Program Manager to join our expanding Legal Operations Team and sit at the center of our mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and post-close integration activity! This is a strategy-to-execution role that serves as the operating backbone for Legal across our most strategic transactions — owning legal integration execution in partnership with Lyft’s Corporate Development Integration Management Office (IMO), and the intake and governance layer that connects the Legal team to deal and integration work. The ideal candidate is tech-savvy, detail oriented, proactive, and able to drive outcomes across multiple concurrent transactions in ambiguous, high-stakes environments with a collaborative and transparent approach. Some key areas include: M&A integration program management, program leadership across concurrent initiatives, cross-functional and deal team engagement, outside counsel and vendor management across jurisdictions, legal entity management and governance, and building the repeatable operating model that scales Legal integration with company growth. This position reports to the Head of Legal Operations. As the company scales, the volume and complexity of strategic transactions — M&A, cross-border expansion, and new market entry — continues to increase. This role establishes a centralized operating model for Legal integration that ensures: Strategic transactions are executed with discipline, completeness, and a clear critical path Legal is embedded early and effectively, with strong planning-to-execution across multiple teams to deliver strong business results and manage risk The organization scales without accumulating operational, compliance, or technical debt Responsibilities: M&A Integration Program Management Own end-to-end legal in

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. We are looking for a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager who brings exceptional technical and analytical skills to drive execution across high-impact product initiatives. Come be part of a team at Lyft focused on enabling and empowering engineering teams to deliver at scale. Technical Program Managers at Lyft drive cross-functional initiatives, leveraging strong leadership, planning, communication, and collaboration skills. Our TPMs are technically strong with deep product and software engineering experience. They are problem solvers who make things happen by setting clear goals and inspiring teams to deliver. TPMs at Lyft are both strategic and tactical, doing what it takes to successfully deliver top-priority programs that have a material impact on the business. This role will support product-facing teams within Rideshare, focusing initially on the Partnerships, Loyalty and Payments organization, where you will be responsible for helping them to create a singular loyalty offering that is accessible, emotional, rewarding, and which makes it simple to choose Lyft. You will collaborate with engineering, product, data science, design, analytics, and operations to drive iterative delivery that delights our riders and drivers. Responsibilities Lead cross-functional product initiatives from ideation through planning, execution, launch, and post-launch — ensuring alignment, accountability, and measurable outcomes at every phase. Provide hands-on support across all phases of the software development lifecycle, including project planning, resource allocation, progress tracking, risk mitigation, KPI ownership and measurement, and leadership communications. Partner with engineering, product, data science, design

At Qualia, we've built the leading B2B real estate technology that transforms the home buying and selling experience into a simple, secure, and enjoyable process. Our SMB and Enterprise products bring together users from across the real estate ecosystem---homebuyers and sellers, lenders, title and escrow agents, and real estate agents---onto a single shared digital closing platform, providing greater clarity and transparency to real estate transactions. Today, through our business customers across the country, millions of consumers use Qualia to close on homes every year. WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON The FP&A team at Qualia is the analytical engine of the Finance organization. We own the company's planning and forecasting processes, serve as trusted business partners to functional leaders, and produce the financial insights that inform our most important strategic decisions, all in an environment where AI is actively reshaping how we work. As a Senior Manager of FP&A, you will be a central force in shaping how Qualia plans, forecasts, and makes decisions as we scale. You will own high-impact analytical workstreams end-to-end, serve as the go-to financial partner for senior functional leaders, and help set the direction for how the FP&A function evolves, from the models we build to the processes we run to the way we leverage AI to work smarter. This is a high-visibility individual contributor role with direct exposure to executive and C-level audiences. RESPONSIBILITIES Own Qualia's planning and forecasting infrastructure : Lead the design, build, and continuous improvement of our operating model, annual plan, and long-range financial plan, ensuring they accurately reflect the current and future state of the business Drive financial rigor at the executive level: Lead preparation of monthly and quarterly management reporting, Board materials, and investor-facing financial packages; distill complex financial results into clear narratives that drive action at the lea

ROLE: Account Director TEAM: Accounts LOCATION: Toronto (Hybrid) COMPANY OVERVIEW Salt is a North American marketing agency that creates connected experiences through creative, digital, and media innovation. Our mission is to help clients, and their brands earn the world’s attention through our core philosophy of Connected Creativity - a cross-disciplinary, collaborative approach to ideation and planning that unlocks the power of different perspectives. This approach enables us to deliver new and effective solutions. Because the best results start with different ideas. ROLE OVERVIEW As an Account Director, you’ll lead a portfolio of integrated campaigns from strategy through execution, acting as the central driver of both client relationships and internal team performance. You’ll serve as the general manager of your business—owning delivery, growth, and team alignment across every touchpoint. You’ll oversee cross-functional teams, guiding the development of programs that are insight-led, creatively sharp, and built to perform. From setting the vision to briefing creative, managing timelines, and owning the budget, you’ll keep the work on track and the client confident in every step. This role is for a strategic thinker and hands-on leader. You know how to turn complexity into clarity and move ideas into action. You’re a strong communicator, a collaborative partner, and a steady force in a fast-moving environment. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Client Relations • Develop and deepen trusted client relationships, acting as a strategic advisor aligned to business goals and brand objectives. • Lead the development and execution of integrated marketing (IMC) programs, ensuring excellence from concept to delivery. • Maintain a strong understanding of the client’s business, industry landscape, and growth drivers. • Identify and pursue opportunities for organic account growth by proposing incremental programs and value-added services. • Provide strategic brand and business guidance t

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is seeking a Senior Analyst to join our Business Forecast & Planning team within Customer Care Operations. This role sits at the center of forecasting and capacity strategy for our global support organization, translating complex operational and business signals into clear, actionable plans. You'll partner closely with operations leadership to keep resourcing aligned with the business, separating what truly matters from the noise, and helping shape decisions that affect how we staff and scale support. Responsibilities: Support the development and upkeep of the models and frameworks that connect business drivers to staffing and resourcing decisions Translate large, complex, and sometimes ambiguous data into clear, actionable insights that support leadership recommendations Own day-to-day planning execution, from dashboards maintenance and reporting to business reviews, with a sharp focus on accuracy and the details that matter Leverage AI tools to build and maintain dashboards, reports, and analyses that support the team's recommendations and insights Identify and help drive opportunities to improve how the team plans and operates Move quickly on ambiguous, time-sensitive requests, using modern tools to work smarter and faster Experience: 2+ years in planning, forecasting, capacity/resource management, or a related analytical role; consulting, investment banking, FP&A, or ops strategy backgrounds also fit well Sharp analytical mindset with hands-on SQL and Python skills AI fluency, comfortable using AI tools to accelerate analysis and problem-solving Strong business acumen paired with genuine curiosity about how large, complex business systems work; fast learner with a bias towards action, comfortable building context quickly across new systems and stakeholders Self-directed, with a track

About the Team Our sales and partner management teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, enabling us to sign and partner with top restaurants across the country to drive revenue and help our partners operate and grow their businesses. As DoorDash grows both in scale and breadth of offering, the strength of our sales engine and organizational structure must grow with it. About the Role DoorDash is looking for a strong individual contributor within Sales Strategy - Sales Planning & Incentives, to execute top company business objectives and help define our sales strategy and planning roadmap. Your responsibilities will range from strategic (designing quotas and incentives aligned to the company's goals and strategy, integrating new products into sales GTM strategy and building consensus among sales leadership) to operational (forecasting, designing compensation plans, driving plan implementation and ensuring key metrics can be communicated, tracked and commissions calculated). You will bring a strategic mindset and deliver critical insights using analytical and technical support to the successful administration of sales incentive programs globally while proactively building partnerships, promoting open dialogue and creative insights expertise to issues in real time. This role specifically supports our US SMB Presales organization spanning multiple sales motions and role types. You'll be a planning and strategy partner for a high-velocity, high-volume sales motion where quota attainment, goaling accuracy / consistency, and rep productivity are the north stars. This role will report into a Senior Manager, Sales Strategy and Planning. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Work closely with sales leadership, sales strategy, finance, and product teams to own the development, implementation and administration of new and existing sales incentive structures Work closely with cross-functional partners (product, finance, sales, sales operations) to build a

About the Team Our sales and partner management teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, enabling us to sign and partner with top restaurants across the country to drive revenue and help our partners operate and grow their businesses. As DoorDash grows both in scale and breadth of offering, the strength of our sales engine and organizational structure must grow with it. About the Role As Associate Manager, Sales Planning and Strategy at DoorDash, you will play a pivotal role in executing against top company business objectives and help define our sales strategy and planning roadmap. Your responsibilities will range from strategic (designing quotas and incentives aligned to the company's goals and strategy, integrating new products into sales GTM strategy and building consensus among sales leadership) to operational (forecasting, designing compensation plans, driving plan implementation and ensuring key metrics can be communicated, tracked and commissions calculated). You will serve as a strategic thought partner to Sales leadership while driving operational discipline across the organization. You will own cross-functional programs end-to-end, ensuring alignment across Sales, Product, Finance, Analytics, and Sales Operations to achieve business goals while proactively building partnerships, promoting open dialogue and creative insights expertise to issues in real time. This role specifically supports our CAN SMB Presales or Enterprise Ads & Promos Sales organization spanning multiple sales motions and role types. You will be the primary planning and strategy partner for the sales organization supported, where quota attainment, goaling accuracy and consistency, and seller productivity are the north stars. This role will report into a Sales Planning and Strategy manager. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will be driving… Strategic Leadership : Become the subject matter expert on sales data, sales incentives, while also gaining a comprehensiv

About the Team Our sales and partner management teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, enabling us to partner with top restaurants across the country to drive revenue and help our partners operate even better. As DoorDash grows both in scale and breadth of offering, the strength of our sales engine and organizational structure must grow with it. About the Role As Senior Manager, Sales planning and strategy at DoorDash, you will play a pivotal role in executing against top company business objectives and help define our sales strategy and planning roadmap. You will be responsible for leading a team of sales planners and analysts. Your team’s responsibilities will range from strategic (designing incentives aligned to the company's goals and strategy, integrating new products into sales GTM strategy and building consensus among sales leadership) to operational/tactical (designing compensation plans, driving plan implementation and ensuring key metrics can be communicated, tracked and commissions calculated). You will bring a strategic mindset and deliver critical insights using analytical and technical support to the successful administration of sales incentive programs globally while proactively building partnerships, promoting open dialogue and creative insights expertise to issues in real time. Reporting to the Director of Sales Strategy and Planning, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to provide valuable insights and recommendations. This role will report to the Vice President of Revenue Operations within the Sales Strategy and Operations organization. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will be driving… Strategic Leadership : Lead a high-performing team of sales planners and analysts to to own the development, implementation and administration of new and existing sales incentive structures for our SMB Post Sales team. Cross-functional Collaboration : Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Marketing, O

About the Team Our sales and partner management teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, enabling us to sign and partner with top restaurants across the country to drive revenue and help our partners operate and grow their businesses. As DoorDash grows both in scale and breadth of offering, the strength of our sales engine and organizational structure must grow with it. About the Role As Associate Manager, Sales Strategy and Planning at DoorDash, you will play a pivotal role in executing against top company business objectives and help define our sales strategy and planning roadmap. Your responsibilities will range from strategic (designing quotas and incentives aligned to the company's goals and strategy, integrating new products into sales GTM strategy and building consensus among sales leadership) to operational (forecasting, designing compensation plans, driving plan implementation and ensuring key metrics can be communicated, tracked and commissions calculated). You will serve as a strategic thought partner to Sales leadership while driving operational discipline across the organization. You will own cross-functional programs end-to-end, ensuring alignment across Sales, Product, Finance, Analytics, and Sales Operations to achieve business goals while proactively building partnerships, promoting open dialogue and creative insights expertise to issues in real time. This role specifically supports our US and CAN Ads and Promos Post-Sales organization spanning multiple sales motions and role types. You'll be the primary planning and strategy partner for a high-velocity, high-volume sales motion where quota attainment, goaling accuracy / consistency, and rep productivity are the north stars. This role will report into a Senior Manager, Sales Strategy and Planning. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will be driving… Strategic Leadership : Become the subject matter expert on sales data, sales incentives, while also gaining a comprehensive understa

At Scale, we believe that AI will dramatically improve the world, and our mission is to accelerate the development of AI. We’re looking for a Field Marketing and Events leader to continue to build and manage Scale’s robust Gen AI and Research field marketing and events program, including but not limited to Scale hosted executive events, Scale hosted practitioner events and meetups, research conferences, and our annual flagship conference, AI Leadership Summit. You will join a rapidly growing team with the opportunity to manage and execute events from start to finish, drive lead generation and pipeline growth, and plan event programming with the largest names in AI. The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of technology, model builder, and research markets, strong project management skills, a strategic mindset, ability to manage and grow a team, and a passion for AI & technology. You will: Own annual planning for all Gen AI and Research events including strategy and budget Establish event activities in line with sales goals and deal acceleration, prioritizing goals from the go-to-market leadership and business development teams on event location and audience Manage team of field marketing and events managers who will execute on planning and logistics. This role should have a player-coach mentality and ability to also execute on nuts to bolts planning for all executive dinners, meetups, happy hours, sponsored trade shows, and hosted conferences Manage contractor relationships including event production firms and outside vendors, and event budgets Align with growth marketing on marketing campaigns and marketing qualified lead (MQL) reporting Track event campaign performance, measuring ROI, results, and metrics through Salesforce and own any course correction for events that are not performing Own all aspects of Scale hosted conference, Scale AI Base Camp, including venue selection, vendor management, logistics, speaker

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Senior Corporate FP&A Manager, Workforce Planning & Total Rewards leads Roblox’s end-to-end headcount planning cycle, aligning top-down envelopes and bottoms-up requests across Finance, People, and business leaders. You’ll own how we translate budget dollars into concrete hiring plans, using various internal tools to manage the planning and execution cycles. You’ll partner closely with People Science & Analytics, PBPs, Compensation, and Talent Acquisition to ensure plans are data-driven, executable, and tied to company priorities. Ultimately, you’ll be the connective tissue between our long-range plan, annual budget, and the teams we staff to deliver it. The ideal candidate will be eager to develop and drive processes, has an eye for efficiency, and works well cross fun