Rob Young
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Management Consulting Expert
New York, NY, United States
Toptal member since September 2, 2024
Rob is a chief of staff with 14 years of combined experience in consulting, strategy, and operations. With deep exposure to PE consulting, tech management, business operations, and series-B growth startups, he's scaled teams, orchestrated complex projects, reimagined strategies, and built impactful products. Rob's a calm, motivated, and execution-driven professional who relentlessly removes roadblocks and serves as a force multiplier dedicated to maximizing his leaders' impact.
Career Highlights
Case Studies
Project Management Framework for Biotech Company
OKR Framework for an AgTech CPG Company
Product Strategy for Agriculture Ed Skills Platform
Expertise
- Business Operations
- Chief of Staff
- Complex Problem Solving
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Microsoft
- Product Strategy
- Project Management
- Strategy
Work Experience
Chief of Staff
Peko Bio
- Spearheaded strategic decision-making by orchestrating quarterly planning, including headcount planning, departmental budgeting, and milestones and OKRs to deliver a five-year return to investors.
- Proactively crafted quarterly board materials and strategic communications, translating highly technical updates into compelling presentations aligned with the company strategy and demonstrating agility with swift iterations.
- Launched the company's compensation framework and performance review program, defining roles, responsibilities, and promotion pathways and conducting salary and equity benchmark analyses.
- Designed and implemented an integrated product roadmap to achieve commercialization within two years, facilitating cross-team alignment and execution of a robust product strategy.
- Streamlined cross-team communications to remove silos and drive faster outcomes. I also ran the company's all-hands meetings.
Technology Chief of Staff
Upward Farms
- Acted as chief of staff to a CTO, four directors, and 60+ staff, doubling the team's size and spearheading strategy development and execution for the tech team as a trusted partner to the CTO and the executive team.
- Architected a product strategy framework to organize the highly complex design of the world's largest vertical farm. I developed a cross-functional roadmap to track key milestones and departmental goals.
- Innovatively designed and implemented a new company-wide project management, communication, and organization structure, slashing unproductive meeting times by 50%.
- Implemented an Agile Scrum framework, leading a cross-functional team spanning operations, HR, marketing, sales, and finance.
- Built and implemented a multi-tiered, streamlined OKR reporting and tracking system with Airtable, ensuring the company met its aggressive goal to maintain the top category ranking at Whole Foods Markets.
Senior Manager
PwC
- Catalyzed the company's digital transformation by launching a "low-code" app solutions development platform for 70,000 users, allowing accountants and consultants to build business automation tools.
- Led a cross-functional team of product managers, data scientists, software engineers, and marketing specialists.
- Doubled the adoption rate of the company's digital lab and organized a hackathon to promote top users.
- Designed and built automation tools to streamline daily operations for my team and senior partners, significantly reducing time spent on routine tasks and enabling a greater focus on strategic activities.
- Mastered diverse platforms, including Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Power BI, Miro, Jira, Tableau, and Alteryx.
- Ran a book of private equity clients, building and managing relationships, advising on M&A strategies to unlock value, and performing commercial, financial, and tax due diligence, deal structuring, and value creation.
- Reviewed complex legal contracts, including SPAs and loans, ensuring thorough analysis and compliance.
- Developed dynamic market sizing models and executed comprehensive business analyses, including competitive landscape and customer perspective analyses, SWOT, and business strategy assessments.
- Managed a team of consultants, performed career coaching, and managed cross-functional projects.
Skills
Finance
Fundraising, Market Research
Output Software
Jira
Data & Analysis Software
Tableau
Other
Microsoft, Google, Slack, Complex Problem Solving, Project Management, Investor Relations, Strategy, Business Development, Communication, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Business Operations, Coaching, Chief of Staff, C-suite, Product Strategy, Board Reporting, M&A Due Diligence (Commercial), Data Modeling, Digital Transformation, Agile, Microsoft Power Platform, Product Marketing, Fractional Chief of Staff, Staffing, Staff Management & Development, Airtable, Scrum, Microsoft Power BI, Alteryx, Miro
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