Strategic Initiatives & Platform Growth Lead

Who We Are

The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.

To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

#LongLiveDogs

What We Stand For and Where You’ll Come In

The Farmer’s Dog is looking for a Strategic Initiatives, Platform & Growth Lead to help lead and evolve our capabilities and offerings for our customers (and dogs!). Reporting directly into our SVP of Integrated Ecosystems, this person will work in close partnership with the CEO and senior leadership to help lead the incubation of new platform capabilities for TFD — researching markets, defining build/buy/partner strategies and mapping customer experiences.

This person comes with a rigorous analytical toolkit, operational instincts, entrepreneurial drive & has a track record of building & executing initiatives from launch through delivery successfully in high-growth environments. You will be highly cross functional across the business, turning early-stage ideas into exciting plans and executing on delivering real products and services that bring joyful experiences to our customers and dogs.

You will work across multiple new verticals simultaneously, each at a different stage of development, and serve as a thought partner and force multiplier for the CEO and senior leadership team. This is a high-impact role with the opportunity to shape how millions of dog owners experience TFD.

One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter. We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact. We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms/Zooms to solve problems holistically.

We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing: Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own. We proactively source input. We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems.

We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions: We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is. We ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long-term retention. We answer questions and address problems early and proactively. We understand the value of different channels, initiatives, and messages and know how to articulate impact and advocate for prioritization holistically.

We Execute For Impact: We don’t subscribe to “best practices” or “industry KPIs”. We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be. Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. acquisition is hyper-focused on improving customer retention and experience.

We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption: We are not beholden to ideas. We have goals and believe everything beyond that is a series of hypotheses to validate. To that end, we seek to work in sequence and not in parallel. We constantly ask ourselves, “what’s the most important hypothesis I should be working on right now? How do I confirm or reject that hypothesis as fast as possible?”. We rarely have timelines/deadlines and are constantly taking in new information and adjusting our priorities accordingly. We don’t expect to be perfect the first time.

How You'll Make An Impact

Serve as the primary translator of the CEO's vision for TFD's next growth by setting the strategy of initiatives, defining roadmaps, working cross functionally across the organization, building from inception through implementation and continuous iteration.
Conduct deep research on adjacent markets, technology trends, regulatory considerations, and partnership opportunities by assessing ROI, defining revenue projections, attach rate modeling, and partnership economics across new platform verticals.
Lead the research, design, and early-stage build of multiple new platform capabilities — each requiring its own build/buy/partner analysis, customer experience design, and commercial model.
Closely partner across Engineering, Product, Data, Marketing, Finance, and Corporate Development to understand our current environment (systems, architecture & infra), customer journey design, go-to-market strategy and unit economicsServe as a thought partner to the CEO and senior leadership on emerging opportunities to define and opportunities that will help drive competitive advantage for TFD.
Navigate ambiguity across technical, regulatory, and commercial dimensions simultaneously — this work spans data, services, and partnerships in categories new to TFD.
Own a portfolio of CEO-level strategic initiatives requiring dedicated research, structured thinking, and rapid operationalization.
Drive build, buy, and partner recommendations to the executive team including defining goals, success metrics and own execution.
Deeply understand TFD’s customers to ensure what is being built will continuously elevate the experience and is scalable as the company grows.

We're Excited About You Because

You have 10+ years of experience with 3–5 years at a top-tier management consulting firm and a track record of leading complex strategic engagements.
You have operating experience in a high-growth company and a track record of taking ambiguous, early-stage ideas from inception through execution — turning uncertainty into credible, deliverable plans.
You have hands-on experience with build/buy/partner frameworks and platform business model design — you've run evaluations that resulted in real decisions, whether a signed partnership, a vendor selection, an embedded service, or a well-reasoned ‘no-go’.
You have strong quantitative and financial skills — you build business cases from scratch, model opportunity sizes, and are comfortable pressure-testing your own assumptions.
You are an exceptional written and verbal communicator with the ability to absorb and distill complexity into simple terms that drive decision making for peers, executive and board audiences.
You have deep curiosity and range — you can move fluidly across categories, synthesize across disciplines, and develop genuine conviction on unfamiliar topics quickly.
You have low ego and high ownership — you thrive in environments where you are figuring things out without a lot of structure, and you treat ambiguity as an opportunity rather than a problem.
You have a background in consumer health, digital health, or consumer wellness — TFD is bringing the best of human-side innovation into the pet space, and experience translating health concepts across categories is directly relevant.
You have experience building and scaling consumer-facing platform businesses in health or wellness, with familiarity across the regulatory, technical, and commercial dynamics of the space.
You love dogs.

Office Guidelines

We are an in-office culture, made of in-office people who thrive on the collaboration and magnetism of working in a shared space. We are seeking individuals who excel in this type of environment, where being present fosters deeper connections and engagement. We ask all team members to be in office 4 - 5 days a week to build a collaborative and invested environment to foster our unique in-person culture we are proud to have. This office policy is subject to change at company discretion.

Our Belonging Philosophy:

At TFD, we believe Belonging is a shared commitment to creating a workplace where every person feels respected, valued, and empowered to be themselves. When people feel a true sense of belonging, they do their best work, take smart risks, and bring forward diverse perspectives — leading to stronger decisions and deeper relationships.

We anchor this belief in a simple phrase: “Everyone’s welcome at the dog park.” No matter your background, identity, or role, there’s space for you here. There’s no one way to show up at the dog park— just shared space, mutual respect, and the freedom to be yourself. Being included is just the beginning, it’s about contributing your voice, growing through challenges, and building trust through shared goals. This philosophy guides how we lead, how we hire, how we communicate, and how we grow.

We continuously evaluate to ensure we are creating a consistent experience that cultivates belonging for all employees, from hiring and performance reviews to talent development. We also believe Belonging happens in everyday moments of connection; lunch with a new teammate, a shared laugh, or a quick story about your weekend. Our structure includes biannual employee surveys, manager training, TFD camps, and support from Humans to ensure we’re listening and learning from our Team.

Together, these efforts reflect what Belonging means at TFD: a culture where everyone can thrive.

A Few of Our Best Benefits

Dog-friendly office in SoHo
Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision
Company supported mental health benefits
12 week paid parental leave
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Flexible PTO
Discounted fresh food for your pup
Your pet interrupting video calls (and in-person meetings) is now a feature, not a bug

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Farmer's Dog, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic or status. For more information, please visit Know Your Rights.

Reasonable Accommodations

TFD complies with applicable federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact humansops@thefarmersdog.com.