Corporate Strategy Associate, Inari

• We are looking for someone with strong strategic business acumen and a demonstrated ability to thrive and deliver results in challenging environments
• This role requires the ambition to tackle complex problems that are often technical and unstructured, but also the humility to ask for help early and roll up your sleeves
• 1-3 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking or corporate development/strategy in high growth environment
• Bachelor’s Degree required - specific degree doesn’t matter, but must have strong corporate finance fundamentals (e.g. financial statement analysis, valuation, rapidly build DCF models) demonstrated in a strategic business context
• A strong sense of purpose and drive to develop unique, high impact, and sustainable solutions
• Ability to effectively communicate with a diverse range of individuals and audiences
• A genuine eagerness to learn and dive deep - our business is fascinating, but highly complex and multi-faceted. Will require learning company-specific scientific, technical, operational basics
• A collaborative mindset that is open to giving and receiving ideas, perspectives, and feedback
• Proven ability to earn trust and deliver results working directly with internal/external senior leaders. Ability to manage internal cross-functional stakeholders
• Self-starter comfortable with managing ambiguity, but not afraid to ask for help
• Adaptability and enthusiasm for new challenges, innate curiosity, and a passion for learning
• Creative and strategic thinking, willingness to be bold and take risks, and the ability to recognize and learn from failure

Desirable

• Corporate Strategy is a small team that reports directly to the CEO and works across a variety of critical areas, such as business development, capital markets, and commercial strategy
• This is a high growth role where few days and projects will be the same
• You will work directly with a world-class senior leadership team and learn how to grow a climate-tech company at the intersection of gene editing, data/machine learning, agriculture, and sustainability
• This role is based in Cambridge, MA (Boston) and reports to the Corporate Strategy Lead
• Bring structure and strategic thinking to complex problems, communicating concisely in writing/presentations and building financial models to value opportunities
• Work with Corporate Strategy Lead to support CEO in preparation for Board of Directors and Leadership Team meetings, working with senior internal stakeholders across all business functions (e.g., science, data/AI, product development, commercial, finance, people, IP, legal/regulatory)
• Support transactions (e.g. fundraising, opportunistic) through close in areas such as presentations, data room ownership, and investor meetings
• Provide support to commercial leadership team for critical business development and growth strategy initiatives through connecting to corporate growth priorities and building financial models/presentations to guide deal structuring
• Work with Corporate Strategy Lead on special projects at discretion of CEO