Strategic Projects Senior Associate

Accountabilities:

• • Partner with executive leadership to identify, structure, and solve high-priority strategic and operational business challenges.
  • Drive strategic projects from initial problem definition and analysis through recommendation, decision-making, and execution.
  • Collaborate across Finance, Operations, Product, and Engineering to develop and implement cross-functional initiatives.
  • Conduct financial modeling, business analysis, quantitative assessments, and data-driven research to inform strategic decisions.
  • Evaluate business performance and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, growth, and organizational effectiveness.
  • Support strategic planning initiatives, translating business objectives into actionable priorities, analyses, and execution plans.
  • Prepare high-quality presentations, executive communications, board materials, investor materials, and other strategic deliverables.
  • Help evaluate and advance new business initiatives and other high-priority corporate opportunities.
  • Manage project timelines, stakeholders, dependencies, and deliverables to ensure initiatives progress effectively from strategy to execution.
  • Synthesize complex financial, operational, and strategic information into concise recommendations for senior decision-makers.
  • Contribute to broader corporate initiatives such as fundraising, M&A, investor engagement, or other strategic priorities as needed.

  Requirements:

  • 3–6 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, management consulting, or another highly rigorous analytical environment.
  • Exceptional analytical and quantitative capabilities, including experience building financial models, conducting business analyses, and developing data-driven recommendations.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to structure ambiguous problems, identify key issues, and develop practical solutions.
  • Ability to synthesize complex operational, financial, and strategic information into clear, compelling recommendations.
  • Demonstrated experience developing polished presentations and executive-level materials for senior leaders, boards, investors, or clients.
  • Strong project management skills and a proven ability to coordinate cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through execution.
  • Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint or Google Slides and Excel or Google Sheets.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both executives and cross-functional teams.
  • High level of ownership, intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and comfort working independently in a fast-moving environment.
  • Preferred experience working within a high-growth, investor-backed organization.
  • Preferred exposure to strategic planning, fundraising, M&A, board reporting, or other high-priority corporate initiatives.
  • Experience working directly with executive leadership, private equity, venture capital, or institutional investors is a plus.
  • Exposure to climate, forestry, infrastructure, energy, construction, industrial services, or other asset-intensive industries is advantageous.
  • Strong interest in moving between strategic analysis and hands-on execution, with the adaptability to take on varied business challenges.

  Benefits:

  • Opportunity to work directly with executive leadership on high-priority strategic initiatives.
  • Broad exposure across Finance, Operations, Product, Engineering, and other areas of the business.
  • Opportunity to contribute to technology-driven solutions addressing the significant challenge of catastrophic wildfire risk.
  • Hands-on experience in a commercially deployed, high-growth environment approaching its next stage of scale.
  • Exposure to strategic planning, business performance, operational improvement, and corporate development initiatives.
  • Opportunity to work on projects involving investors, boards, and other senior stakeholders.
  • Collaborative, mission-driven environment focused on technology, data, and operational excellence.
  • Significant opportunity for professional growth and increased responsibility as the organization scales.