Strategy Manager

The role

Nebius is looking for a a Strategy Manager to join our central Strategy team — a company-wide center of excellence that connects the dots across the organization and brings facts and analysis to top management. You will own high-visibility workstreams at the heart of how Nebius plans and performs: the company KPI framework, headcount planning across departments, and cross-functional strategic projects. The AI infrastructure market moves weekly — this role is for someone who thrives on speed, rigor and ownership.

You’re welcome to work in our offices in Amsterdam.

Your responsibilities will include:

Design and run the company-wide KPI framework: define metrics with department leaders, track performance, and report insights to executive management

Drive headcount planning and forecasting across departments — top-down targets, coverage assessment and quarterly phasing, working closely with HR and Finance

Lead strategic projects end-to-end: market and competitor assessment, business cases for new products, geographies and partnerships, M&A support

Consolidate company-wide strategic initiatives — align cross-team plans, surface insights across departments and validate that initiatives add up

Prepare board- and executive-level materials: clear narratives, crisp recommendations, quantified trade-offs

Run primary research: expert-network interviews, customer surveys and voice-of-customer analysis to ground recommendations in evidence

We expect you to have:

3-5+ years of experience in fast-paced environment: in strategy consulting — MBB, Tier-2, or a specialized firm with deep exposure to TMT, investment banking / VC, or in a corporate strategy / BizOps role at a high-growth AI-native company

Hands-on experience with KPI, performance-management frameworks and headcount / org planning

Experience developing corporate strategies for hypergrowth companies and/or value creation plans

Strong financial acumen: fluent in P&L logic, unit economics and business cases

Executive-level stakeholder management: you can align senior leaders, navigate resistance and drive cross-functional processes to closure

Excellent written and verbal communication in English — you can distill complexity for a C-level audience

High ownership and work capacity: you take topics end-to-end, thrive in ambiguity and keep pace in a fast-moving environment

It will be an added bonus if you have:

Exposure to cloud, AI infrastructure, data centers or adjacent markets

Exposure to M&A, integration or investor-facing work

VBA or Python for analysis