Job ID: r20665
What You'll Do:
Reporting directly to the CEO, the CoS partners directly with the CEO, LT, and ELT to drive cross-functional strategic initiatives, orchestrate executive governance, and ensure strong information flow, decision-making, and execution across the company.
You act as the connective tissue across senior leadership by translating executive priorities into clear actions, accountable owners, and disciplined execution.
Empowered by the CEO to lead transformational priorities and ensure accountability at LT level.
Key responsibilities
Executive governance and operating rhythm
- Orchestrate executive governance and strategic planning, including meeting preparation, agenda shaping, decision capture, and action tracking.
- Design and run leadership touchpoints, offsites, and forums that keep enterprise priorities visible and moving.
- Ensure seamless information flow between the CEO, LT, ELT, and other key stakeholders so decisions are made with clarity and speed.
Strategy execution and enterprise priorities
- Drive execution of company priorities and major cross-functional strategic initiatives on behalf of the CEO.
- Translate strategy into actionable plans, surface risks and misalignment early, and maintain momentum on critical workstreams.
- Prioritize and synthesize complex information into clear recommendations, decision points, and executive-ready materials.
Leadership alignment and influence
- Act as an air traffic controller and ambassador across senior stakeholders, helping align perspectives and remove friction.
- Support engagement and governance across LT, ELT, and the Strategy Committee through well-structured communications and operating mechanisms.
- Represent the CEO’s office when needed in internal and external forums, with sound judgment and strong credibility.
CEO leverage and organizational effectiveness
- Anticipate CEO and leadership needs, protect executive bandwidth, and reduce operational noise so the CEO can stay focused on external growth, customers, and long-term priorities.
- Serve as a stabilizing force for execution during periods of change, leadership transition, or enterprise transformation.
- Build the structure, governance, and follow-through mechanisms that improve cross-functional decision quality and accountability.
Who You Are:
Experience and mindset
- Strategic mindset with strong business acumen and the ability to connect CEO vision to enterprise execution.
- Experience in global tech companies with significant transformations required
- Highly autonomous and effective in ambiguity, with the judgment to handle sensitive topics with discretion and integrity.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complexity into clear direction.
- Comfortable influencing senior leaders and operating across functions without direct authority.
Ways of working
- Structured, proactive, and execution-oriented; able to move fluidly from strategic framing to operational follow-through.
- Trusted partner who can challenge constructively, align stakeholders, and keep teams focused on enterprise outcomes.
- High level of confidentiality, sound judgment, and role-model leadership behavior.
We acknowledge that many candidates may not meet every single role requirement listed above. If your experience looks a little different from our requirements but you believe that you can still bring value to the role, we’d love to see your application!
Who We Are:
We’re Criteo, the Commerce Intelligence Platform. Criteo helps businesses turn shopper signals into commerce outcomes while delivering more relevant experiences for shoppers. We use proprietary commerce intelligence and AI decisioning to drive relevance for shoppers and performance for businesses.
At Criteo, our culture is as unique as it is diverse. From our offices across the globe or from the comfort of home, our 3,600 Criteos collaborate together to build an open, impactful, and forward-thinking environment.
We foster a workplace where everyone is valued, and employment decisions are based solely on skills, qualifications, and business needs—never on non-job-related factors or legally protected characteristics.
What We Offer:
🏢 Ways of working – Our hybrid model blends home with in-office experiences, making space for both.
📈 Grow with us – Learning, mentorship & career development programs.
💪 Your wellbeing matters – Health benefits, wellness perks & mental health support.
🤝 A team that cares – Diverse, inclusive, and globally connected.
💸 Fair pay & perks – Attractive salary, with performance-based rewards and family-friendly policies, plus the potential for equity depending on role and level.
Additional benefits may vary depending on the country where you work and the nature of your employment with Criteo.
For employees based in the US, certain roles at Criteo are eligible for additional rewards, including quarterly or annual bonus and restricted stock units. US-based employees receive access to healthcare, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, family forming and wellness benefits, Flexible Work financial support, learning opportunities, and a robust annual leave plan including volunteer time off and summer vacation days.
The US base salary pay range for this position per year is:
