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Corporate Strategist, Finance & Investment Strategy Pleasanton, California, United States

SparkCognition · Remote (US) · Remote

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About SparkCognition

Physical AI for industrial operations. One knowledge graph of your assets, processes, people, and locations, with agents that return the plan rather than the alert.

About the role

Within your first few years at Avathon, you will develop a rare combination of AI fluency, investment judgment, financial acumen, and company-building experience. You will learn how a frontier technology company allocates capital, evaluates investments, enters new markets, finances growth, assesses strategic transactions, and makes the decisions that shape long-term enterprise value.

What they're looking for

  • MBA required from a leading global university, with a strong record of academic and professional achievement
  • Approximately 3–5 years of pre-MBA experience in investment banking, private equity, growth equity, venture capital, management consulting, corporate development, corporate strategy or strategic finance
  • Strong interest in AI, enterprise technology, industrial technology, investing, and the transformation of the physical economy
  • Exceptional financial and analytical capabilities, including financial modeling, valuation, investment analysis, market sizing, scenario modeling, and business-case development
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate companies, markets, technologies, business models, and investment opportunities and develop clear perspectives on strategic and financial attractiveness
  • Strong understanding of corporate finance, capital allocation, valuation, investment returns, financial statements, and transaction economics
More about this role

Avathon is the leading Industrial AI autonomy platform, helping customers across heavy industries - energy, mining, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, and logistics - accelerate the journey toward autonomous operations. Our platform is built on a Computational Knowledge Graph foundation that contextualizes and connects operational data across siloed systems, bringing together time series, structured, unstructured, and machine vision data to power AI-driven applications in asset performance management, supply chain intelligence, visual AI, and global trade management. With capabilities spanning digital twins, normal behavior modeling, natural language processing, and computer vision, Avathon delivers real-time predictive intelligence and agentic decision-making at industrial scale.

Cutting-Edge AI Innovation - Join a team at the forefront of AI, developing groundbreaking solutions that shape the future. High-Growth Environment - Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm. Meaningful Impact - Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.

Learn more at: avathon.com

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