Senior Corporate Strategist

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Run deep-dive research on target enterprises and markets, covering business model, cost structure, competitive pressures, existing partnerships, technology roadmap, procurement dynamics, and stated strategy.
• Build market sizing, pricing, cost-to-serve, unit economics, and scenario models from scratch.
• Build exceptional strategy decks end to end: frame the argument, develop the storyline, select the evidence, and create the charts and slides that make a complex opportunity persuasive to a senior audience.
• Own discrete workstreams on internal strategic questions, including market entry and city sequencing, build-versus-buy-versus-partner analysis, competitive positioning, and capital allocation tradeoffs.
• Synthesize messy inputs such as public filings, earnings calls, industry reports, expert calls, and Serve's own operating data into a clear point of view with a recommendation attached.
• Build materials for board, investor, and executive audiences that a senior reader can follow without narration.
• Track the autonomous delivery, last-mile logistics, robotics, and adjacent mobility landscape, and flag what matters rather than forwarding everything.
• Evaluate the scale, feasibility, and resource requirements of new bets, including potential revenue or strategic value, partner funding, engineering and operating burden, time to proof, and the milestones that justify…

Job requirements

• 3 to 8 years of experience with a meaningful stretch in management consulting, corporate strategy, or similar.
• Strong research instincts, with demonstrated ability to move from no knowledge of a company to a defensible thesis within roughly a week.
• Modeling ability in Excel that goes beyond maintaining or formatting someone else's model, including building from scratch and defending every assumption.
• Slide craft sufficient to build a deck that a C-suite audience can follow without narration.
• Clear writing, with the ability to construct and defend an argument in prose.
• Judgment to manage competing priorities across two senior stakeholders and to escalate early when they collide.
• Comfort with ambiguity and with having a conclusion challenged, then reworking it.
• Independent thinker.