What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Strategist position at cie?
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 role is 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.