Strategy & Ventures Lead

Join NewsBreak as a Strategy & Ventures Lead, where you will drive the growth of our core business and two new AI initiatives. You will evaluate strategies, analyze growth metrics, build financial models, and support our new corporate venture arm. This role requires strong data analysis skills, financial modeling expertise, and experience in investment banking, management consulting, or corporate development. Enjoy benefits such as remote work opportunities, paid time off, and a top-tier 401(K) plan.

• Evaluate and analyze the performance of NDot AI and Nearby AI initiatives, focusing on strategy, product-market fit, and unit economics.
• Build business cases and financial models to inform resource allocation and guide strategic decisions.
• Develop investment theses, source opportunities, lead diligence, model valuation and returns, and make investment recommendations for NexBreak Ventures.

• Commercial judgment and a willingness to challenge constructively, plus the ability to influence across functions
• Hands-on data skills: comfortable writing SQL and working with large datasets to test assumptions yourself
• Strong financial modeling skills: business cases, market sizing, unit economics and valuation
• 3–5 years in top-tier investment banking, management consulting, corporate development, or strategy/BizOps, with meaningful exposure to technology
• Structured problem solving and clear executive communication; you turn ambiguous questions into clear recommendations
• Curious, proactive and low-ego; equally comfortable discussing strategy with leadership and digging into customer cohorts
• Experience with Hive, Spark or Python; cohort analysis and experimentation
• Corporate venture, VC or growth equity experience, including sourcing and diligence
• M&A modeling or tech corporate development experience
• Background in marketplaces, consumer internet, media/adtech or AI
• Empathy for founders and a strong network for sourcing deals