Job Description

In this role you will: Leadership:

• Demonstrate leadership across all stages of the business model, including innovation, product development, incubation and commercialization

• Explore and analyze markets and trends in the industry
• Perform competitive analysis and identify current best practices and market leaders
• Size the existing customer market, as well as identify trends and relative positioning
• Analyze start-up deal flow to understand imminent disruptions and identify tech acceleration opportunities
• Establish key performance indicators for venture outcomes while also defining the business model and case for new ventures, products and services
• Define the business model options and case for new ventures, products and services
• Develop the economic model and business plan for new ventures, products and services
• Test and validate assumptions while creating a sensitivity analysis for key drivers
• Assess internal capabilities and capacities to develop a sourcing strategy
• Create the framing report (an overview and explanation of the project scope, objective and hypothesis) for new initiatives
• Collaborate with the Strategic Design and Product Development leads, as well as clients, to define a minimum viable business build (or product / service)

• Plan and deliver new ventures, products and services
• Identify required partners for regulatory requirements or support needs

• Create intellectual property, points of view and industry/ topic platforms
• Contribute to the development of thought leadership across a range of emerging business, technology and design topics

• 5-7 years of experience with strategy development, business planning and future visioning, as well as quantitative and economic modeling (preferred)
• Design or product development expertise
• Background in product prototyping and testing
• Bachelor’s degree (business, psychology, economics, strategy or equivalent from a top-tier institution preferred)
• Master’s degree (postgraduate, MBA or equivalent study)
• Experience in a high-pressure start-up environment with exposure to multidisciplinary teams
• Involvement with a top-tier consulting firm