The Role
As a Strategic Project Manager, you will shape company strategy and priorities, drive cross-team initiatives, and influence decision-making using market insights.
Summary Generated by Built In
Our mission? Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine business-class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and pre-accounting) with unwaveringly attentive 24/7 support, designed to help businesses breeze through all things finance.
Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 600,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!
Our values:
Customer focus | Prioritize customers in everything you do
Ownership | Own your part, get things done
Teamwork | Make (team)work easy
Mastery | Continuously raise the bar
Integrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people
Our beliefs: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 55% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.
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As a Strategic Project Manager (Strategic Planning & Insights) at Qonto, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our company strategy and priorities, defining key directions across product, customer segments, and geographies. You will also ensure seamless execution of the strategy, working cross-functionally to drive alignment and results.
Leveraging market insights, customer needs, and competitive positioning, you will help identify new opportunities, influence strategic decision-making, and support critical business initiatives. This role offers high exposure to senior management and close collaboration with teams across Qonto—including Growth, Product, Tech, Ops, Finance, Compliance, and People.
You will play a key role in planning and leading cross-team strategic initiatives on a wide range of topics to help Qonto grow and meet its business objectives.
👩💻🧑💻 As a Strategic Project Manager at Qonto, you will:
• Strategic Planning & Prioritization: Play a key role in shaping Qonto’s strategic planning process, defining company-wide priorities, evaluating adjustments, and developing Qonto’s Equity Story to articulate our vision internally and externally.
• Market & Strategic Insights: Provide strategic recommendations to key teams - especially Product, Growth, and Corporate Development - by analyzing market trends, customer needs, and Qonto’s competitive position. Foster discussions and generate ideas to identify new opportunities and guide prioritization.
• Strategic Projects: Drive a variety of cross-team strategic initiatives, such as new products & services to launch, revised Pricing & Packaging, GTM strategies, new distribution channels and ops optimizations
🤔 What you can expect:
• Work on high-impact strategic topics with direct exposure to senior management.
• Play a key role in executing Qonto’s strategic vision and driving business success.
• Join a fast-growing, dynamic environment in an international fintech leader.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with multiple teams - Growth, Product, Ops, Risk & Compliance, Corporate Development, People and more - across five European markets.
🤝 About your future Manager
Your future manager will be Cédrick, our Strategy lead.
• Prior to joining Qonto, Cédrick worked in Strategy Consulting, specializing in strategic planning, M&A due diligence, and growth strategies. He also gained entrepreneurial experience by co-founding an e-commerce startup.
• Cédrick has been with Qonto for 4.5 years, where he has led and scaled the Strategic Projects team. He brings deep expertise in both strategy and execution within the Fintech sector.
🏅 About You
• Experience: 5+ years in a top-tier consulting firm or as a strategic project manager in a startup or company.
• Curious & Insight-Driven: You’re eager to learn, explore new opportunities, and push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Analytical Thinker: You thrive on solving complex problems and working on quantitative & financial projects.
• Strong Communicator: You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to structure, synthesize, and present insights clearly.
• Project & Stakeholder Management: You’re highly organized, able to break silos, lead cross-team initiatives, and drive execution.
• Detail-Oriented: You take pride in flawless execution and follow-through.
• Languages: Fluent English is required; French, Italian, German, or Spanish is a big plus.
• Industry Knowledge: Experience in banking or financial services is a strong plus.
At Qonto we understand that true diversity isn't just about ticking boxes on a hiring checklist. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick! Who knows? You may have the missing piece of the puzzle we've been searching for all along.
🎁 Perks
A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.
- Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;
- Competitive salary package;
- Meal vouchers;
- Public transportation reimbursement (part or global);
- A great health insurance (depending on the country);
- Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities;
- A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;
- Monthly team events.
💬 Our hiring process:
- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
- A remote or live exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like
Find more information about our interview process on our careers website.
On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞
To learn more about us:
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The Company
What We Do
Qonto is the leading European business finance solution. It simplifies everything from everyday banking and financing, to bookkeeping and spend management. Qonto energizes SMEs and freelancers so that they can achieve more. A few figures about Qonto: - Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi launched Qonto in July 2017 - Qonto’s international team is growing fast and we are actively hiring! - Hundreds of thousands of customers in Europe are already using Qonto - €622m raised with VCs and business angels including Valar, Alven, the European Investment Bank, Tencent, DST Global, Tiger Global, TCV, Alkeon, Eurazeo, KKR, Insight Partners, Exor Seeds and Gaingels. Legal Notice: 🇪🇺 https://legal.qonto.com/en 🇫🇷 https://legal.qonto.com/fr 🇩🇪 https://qonto.com/de/imprint 🇪🇸 https://legal.qonto.com/es 🇮🇹 https://legal.qonto.com/it
