Rocket trajectory opportunity!
If you're eager to work side-by-side with serial entrepreneurs and gain real exposure to high-level 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 ventures through comprehensive market research and customer insights.This is a contract-to-hire role designed for a generalist researcher who can adeptly analyze market trends, conduct competitive analysis, and deliver valuable customer insights.
Key Responsibilities
- Market Research:
- Conduct thorough and creative market research to evaluate subject company position relative to landscape competitors.
- 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.
- Present findings and actionable insights to senior management.
- Strategic Analysis:
- Synthesize client, competitor, and customer information to identify key problems and opportunities.
- Create associations and sequence information to develop clear, data-driven recommendations.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of consulting experience, preferably with top-tier consulting firms or venture studios.
- Proven experience in market research, customer insights, and prototype development.
- 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.
