The Business Strategy Manager will lead high-priority strategic projects, collaborate with senior leadership, and evaluate new business opportunities to drive organizational change and development.
Voleon is a technology company that applies state-of-the-art AI and machine learning techniques to real-world problems in finance. For nearly two decades, we have led our industry and worked at the frontier of applying AI/ML to investment management. We have become a multibillion-dollar asset manager, and we have ambitious goals for the future.
Your colleagues will include internationally recognized experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning research as well as highly experienced finance and technology professionals. The people who shape our company come from other backgrounds, including concert music performances, humanitarian aid, opera singing, sports writing, and BMX racing. You will be part of a team that loves to succeed together.
In addition to our enriching and collegial working environment, we offer highly competitive compensation and benefits packages, technology talks by our experts, a beautiful modern office, daily catered lunches, and more.
As a Business Strategy Manager, you will be a part of our small, tight-knit Business Strategy Team. This role is a means to make a difference: you will engage in some of our highest-priority strategic and operational efforts, and you will convert ideas into tangible results. You will lead projects, many of which come from the CEO, COO, or the Business Strategy team itself. You will collaborate with a talented, accomplished, and experienced group of colleagues from a variety of functions to help shape the future of our organization. The focus of your work will be on investment management, technology, and organizational management.
Responsibilities
- Lead projects that transform our company:
- Work closely with senior leadership to define goals, and prioritize strategic and operational ideas
- Proactively structure and plan projects, and design scalable solutions
- Drive the end-to-end implementation in a thoughtful and timely manner and ultimately bring projects to life with an eye toward generating exceptional results
- Measure results against intended goals
- Develop c-level communications to achieve alignment with leadership and stakeholders
- Work extensively with colleagues throughout the organization, and foster clear communication and collaboration
- Share findings with colleagues, building institutional knowledge and ensuring transparency
- Evaluate new business opportunities, including market entry strategies, partnerships, acquisitions, and product/service diversification
- Assess the feasibility and potential return on investment for each opportunity
- Develop and communicate strategic roadmaps that outlines key milestones, timelines, and resource requirements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including investor relations, research, and finance, to build and execute on business plans
- Actively seek input and feedback from colleagues, and incorporate an array of perspectives
- Identify and evaluate business opportunities, large and small
- Conduct extensive research and develop expertise in a wide range of mission-critical areas
- Provide thought leadership on complex problems, many without precedent
Create alignment and drive change across the organization:
Explore new business opportunities:
Identify opportunities and pioneer new processes to improve the effectiveness and agility of our teams:
Requirements
- An entrepreneurial mindset
- Experience working closely with executive management and creating executive-level communications
- At least two years of experience in strategy-related roles
- Eagerness to work with diverse teams
- Bachelor’s degree
- Authorization to work in the United States
The base salary range for this position is $125,000 to $150,000 in the location(s) of this posting. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 20 days of paid time off, 9 sick days, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.
“Friends of Voleon” Candidate Referral Program
If you have a great candidate in mind for this role and would like to have the potential to earn $7,500 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, please use this form to submit your referral. For more details regarding eligibility, terms and conditions please make sure to review the Voleon Referral Bonus Program.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
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Top Skills
AI
Investment Management
Machine Learning
The Voleon Group Berkeley, California, USA Office
Downtown, Berkeley, CA, United States, 94704
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