Responsibilities
- Lead the execution of Lightspeed’s enterprise transformation, driving high-priority initiatives from concept through execution and value delivery
- Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, ensuring clear milestones, ownership, and accountability across transformation workstreams
- Establish and maintain the drumbeat of execution, ensuring consistent progress, visibility, and momentum week over week
- Partner closely with the CSTO and executive leadership team to align priorities, drive accountability, and enable decision-making
- Identify and resolve cross-functional risks, dependencies, and roadblocks, ensuring initiatives remain on track and deliver expected outcomes
- Drive visibility into transformation progress, including tracking against key milestones, value targets, and business impact
Requirements
- Strong structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to connect strategy to execution and drive enterprise outcomes
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, cross-functional transformation initiatives in fast-paced, matrixed environments
- Proven ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across functions without direct authority
- Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to drive execution and accountability across complex organizations
- Excellent communication skills, including experience synthesizing insights and supporting executive-level decision-making
- Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to connect initiative progress to broader strategic and financial outcomes
- As a global company with employees and clients outside of Quebec, fluency in English as a working language is required for this position.
Nice to Have
- 7–10+ years of experience in consulting, strategy, transformation, or business operations
- Experience leading or operating within enterprise-wide transformation programs
- Advanced degree (e.g., MBA) or equivalent experience
- Experience in SaaS, fintech, or other high-growth, technology-driven environments
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off and remote work policies
- Equity options, because this is your company too
- Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters
- Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
- Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
- Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
- Interest groups, employee led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams
- Computer purchase program to get your personal MacBook
- Enhanced parental leave to support growing families
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Team
Structure: Cross-functional transformation efforts across the business. Reports to: Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer (CSTO) and broader executive leadership team
Additional Information
- Fluency in English as a working language is required
- Lightspeed uses artificial intelligence–enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by our recruiting and hiring teams.
- Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
- This role represents an existing vacancy at Lightspeed.
- Recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes unless directly engaged in writing.
