Business Strategist

Rocket trajectory opportunity!

If you're eager to work side-by-side with serial entrepreneurs and gain real exposure to entrepreneurial decision-making, this is the opportunity to fast-track your growth.

Cie is a Venture Studio that specializes in accelerating growth and digital innovation for large enterprises and emerging startups. We leverage our domain expertise gained from dozens of early-stage ventures to support our partners from ideation to commercialization.  

• Named a best place to work in 2025 by BuiltIn LA 
• ‘From Zero to One’: How Cie’s Culture Helps New Ideas Shine 

We are seeking a skilled Business Strategist to play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of our portfolio companies and corporate ventures through comprehensive market research, customer insights, and advisory support.

This is a contract-to-hire role designed for a strong generalist researcher or senior consultant who can adeptly analyze market trends, conduct competitive analysis, frame innovation deliverables to deliver valuable customer insights on the path to commercialization.

Key Responsibilities

• Market Research:
  • Conduct thorough and creative market research to evaluate subject company position relative to market sizing, customer profiles, landscape competitors, and other key indicators.

• Customer Insights:
  • Design and execute studies to gather customer insights.
  • Develop hypotheses on major problems to solve and use them as inputs to ideation.
  • Facilitate customer cohort discussions, manage surveys/interviews, analyze results, and validate prototypes through customer feedback.
  • Compile and present findings and actionable insights to senior management. 

• Strategic Analysis:
  • Synthesize client, competitor, and customer information to identify key problems and opportunities as inputs to digital products or services.
  • Create associations and sequence information to develop clear, data-driven recommendations. 
  • Familiarity with business and operating models, business cases as inputs to commercialization.
  • Create solid, executable action plans to launch digital products or ventures.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of consulting experience, preferably with top-tier consulting firms or venture studios. 
• Proven experience in market research, customer insights, and strategy consulting engagements. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Strong critical reasoning skills. 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills. 
• Proficient in data analysis tools and methodologies. 
• Bonus points for experience in project management and creating strategy or concept-based presentations. 
• High tolerance for ambiguity and ability to work independently.