Strategy & Ventures Lead (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Annual base salary: $180,000–$240,000 USD, with potential discretionary bonus and options.

Company

Content Intelligence platform serving more than 40 million monthly active users through personalized local news and information powered by AI, recommendation systems, and adtech.

What you will do

• Evaluate AI initiatives across strategy, product-market fit, progress, team capabilities, resourcing, and unit economics.
• Analyze growth, funnels, retention, and monetization using SQL, Hive, and Spark to guide operating decisions.
• Build business cases and financial models, define KPIs and stage gates, and track performance against investment cases.
• Run business reviews with initiative leaders, identify execution gaps, and assess resourcing needs.
• Build a corporate venture platform by developing investment theses, sourcing opportunities, leading diligence, modeling valuation and returns, and making investment recommendations.
• Assess build, partner, invest, and acquire options while supporting portfolio companies after investment.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in top-tier investment banking, management consulting, corporate development, or strategy/BizOps, with meaningful technology exposure.
• Strong financial modeling skills covering business cases, market sizing, unit economics, and valuation.
• Hands-on SQL and large-dataset experience for testing assumptions and analyzing customer cohorts.
• Structured problem-solving, clear executive communication, commercial judgment, and the ability to influence across functions.
• Curiosity, proactivity, low-ego collaboration, and comfort working with both leadership and detailed customer data.

Nice to have

• Experience with Hive, Spark, Python, cohort analysis, or experimentation.
• Corporate venture, venture capital, or growth equity experience, including sourcing and diligence.
• M&A modeling or technology corporate development experience.
• Background in marketplaces, consumer internet, media/adtech, or AI.
• Founder empathy and a strong network for sourcing deals.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on AI initiatives and a corporate venture platform within a high-growth content intelligence business.
• Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus and stock options.
• Work focused on strategy, investment decisions, partnerships, technology, monetization, data, and operating expertise.

Hiring process

• Recruiter provides additional details about the rewards package during the hiring process.