Associate Strategic Finance & Corporate Development, Waabi
$120-140k
+ Equity Incentive + Annual Performance Bonus
AI-powered self-driving technology
Be an early applicant
AI-powered self-driving technology
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-140k
+ Equity Incentive + Annual Performance Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring commercially viable self-driving technology to society.
Role
Who you are
- Professional Experience: 3-5 years of experience in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Growth Equity, or a Strategic Finance role at a high-growth technology company
- Analytical Rigor: Advanced financial modeling skills with a focus on accuracy and scalability. You take pride in the quality of your work and can translate complex data into reliable decision-making tools
- Agency & Execution: A self-starter who thrives in ambiguity. You are highly organized, capable of managing multiple workstreams, and proactive in moving projects to completion with minimal oversight
- Executive Communication: The ability to distill vast amounts of data into clear, concise, and polished insights for executive audiences
- Collaborative: A "roll-up-your-sleeves" mentality with a focus on the speed and quality of team decisions. You are comfortable in a fast-paced environment and happy to pitch in wherever you can make the biggest impact
- Aptitude for Frontier Tech: A genuine interest in Physical AI and autonomy. You are eager to understand the "how" of the technology to better model its impact and adoption at scale
- Systems Mindset: A natural inclination to build frameworks from scratch and a desire to make financial processes more efficient as the organization grows
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Associate to join as an early member of our Strategic Finance & Corporate Development team
- In this role, you will act as a force multiplier for the finance organization, bringing analytical rigor and strategic clarity to our most critical workstreams
- This is a high-visibility opportunity for an impactful contributor to have a front-row seat to the growth of a frontier tech leader and help architect our long-term financial foundations
- Provide End-to-End Modeling Support: Build and maintain the sophisticated financial models that underpin our strategic and commercial initiatives—ensuring every decision is grounded in rigorous data
- Manage the Long-Range Financial Plan: Support the evolution of our LRP, integrating technical R&D milestones with commercial growth objectives to maintain a clear roadmap for the company’s future
- Build Strategic Business Cases: Develop the analytical frameworks for new growth initiatives and partnerships, ensuring we allocate capital toward the highest-impact opportunities
- Support Corporate Development: Partner on deal modeling, structuring, and due diligence for strategic partnerships, serving as a key contributor throughout the deal lifecycle
- Evaluate Capital Strategy: Help explore CapEx financing solutions and support treasury strategies to optimize our cash management
- Craft the Strategic Investor Narrative: Collaborate on the development of board-ready materials and high-fidelity communications that distill our technical and commercial progress into a clear narrative that reinforces our market-leading position
- Drive Investor Engagement: Support the investor relations strategy and calendar, managing investor universe mapping and quarterly reporting
- Establish Foundational FP&A: Build the core frameworks for a scaling organization, including leadership reporting, budget vs. actuals analysis, and cross-functional financial discipline
- Synthesize Market Intelligence: Monitor the Physical AI and autonomy landscape, translating competitor moves and macro trends into actionable insights for the leadership team
- Support Special Projects: Partner on high-impact initiatives that fall at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations
Our take
Autonomous vehicle technology is rapidly developing and many sectors are recognizing its value. However, whilst the self-driving industry has made significant advancements there is much more that can be done. There are challenges in this space surrounding scale and developing commercially viable self-driving technology.
Waabi hopes to tackle these challenges and be the leader in self-driving technology with their "AI first approach". The company said that combined with a closed-loop simulator, this approach will allow both common driving scenarios and safety-critical edge cases to be tested at scale - solving one of the key issues in the industry.
Waabi has a growing partnership with Volvo too, with is a major boost for its future. The two companies have co-developed a new Volvo VNL Autonomous truck that pairs VOlvo's purpose-built autonomy platform with Waabi's end-to-end AI driving system, sensors, and compute. Volvo has also backed Waabi financially through its venture arm, giving Waabi both manufacturing support and long-term investment. Toget, erhjtis puts Waabi in a position to scale and move towards fully driverless trucking quicker.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
81% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2026
$750m
SERIES C
Jun 2024
$200m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.0bn
Leadership
Raquel Urtasun
(Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Uber as Chief Scientist, Head of Uber ATG R&D. Is also a professor at the University of Toronto.
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