Corporate Strategist, Platform and Product Strategy

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who We Are & Why Join Us</span></strong></p> <p><strong>Avathon</strong> 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.</p> <p><strong>Cutting-Edge AI Innovation</strong> -- Join a team at the forefront of AI, developing groundbreaking solutions that shape the future. <strong>High-Growth Environment</strong> -- Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm. <strong>Meaningful Impact</strong> -- Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.</p> <p>Learn more at: <span><a href="http://avathon.com" target="_blank">avathon.com</a></span></p> <div class="content-intro"> </div></div><p>We are looking for an exceptional Corporate Strategist, Platform & Product Strategy to work at the intersection of corporate strategy, Physical AI, product, technology, and markets. You will work directly with Avathon’s executive leadership and partner closely with Product, AI Research, Product Engineering, Forward Engineering, and industry teams to help shape the strategic direction of Avathon’s platform and product portfolio. This is an opportunity to directly influence what Avathon builds, where we invest, and how we translate frontier AI capabilities into differentiated products for the physical economy.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Work On</strong></p> <ul> <li>Help define the long-term strategy, strategic priorities, and product investment roadmap for Avathon’s Physical AI platform and product portfolio</li> <li>Evaluate Avathon’s platform capabilities, applications, and industry solutions to identify opportunities to build, expand, consolidate, partner, or enter new product categories</li> <li>Analyze customer needs, industry workflows, operational challenges, and market dynamics to determine which problems Avathon should productize and where the greatest opportunities for differentiated value exist</li> <li>Evaluate advances across agentic AI, autonomous systems, knowledge graphs, multimodal AI, digital twins, optimization, and decision intelligence and translate them into strategic implications for Avathon’s platform and roadmap</li> <li>Develop strategic perspectives on how Avathon’s platform should address high-value opportunities across energy, mining, manufacturing, aerospace & defense, and supply chain & logistics</li> <li>Develop analytical frameworks and business cases to evaluate new products, platform capabilities, market opportunities, partnerships, and strategic technology investments</li> <li>Develop a deep understanding of the evolving AI and industrial technology landscape, identifying competitive shifts, emerging architectures, new entrants, and technology developments that should influence Avathon’s strategy</li> <li>Partner with Product Management and Marketing to articulate how Avathon’s platform and products are differentiated and help define the strategic narrative for Physical AI and industrial autonomy</li> <li>Work with customers, Forward Engineering, and industry experts to identify recurring operational problems and determine which customer-driven innovations can become repeatable, scalable products</li> <li>Work directly with senior leadership on platform direction, product portfolio decisions, strategic partnerships, build-versus-buy decisions, market entry, and other company-level strategic priorities</li> </ul> <p><strong>What We’re Looking For:</strong></p> <ul> <li>MBA required from a leading global university, with a strong record of academic and professional achievement</li> <li>Approximately 3–5 years of pre-MBA experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, product strategy or technology strategy</li> <li>Strong interest in AI, enterprise technology, product strategy, industrial technology, and the transformation of the physical economy</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to evaluate markets, technologies, products, and business models and translate complex analysis into clear strategic recommendations</li> <li>Ability to take an ambiguous question whether around a new AI capability, product category, industry opportunity, or strategic investment and develop a rigorous point of view and actionable path forward</li> <li>Strong understanding of how technology platforms become products, including the relationship between core platform capabilities, applications, customer requirements, and market opportunities</li> <li>Strong analytical capabilities, including market sizing, competitive analysis, business-case development, strategic modeling, and product/portfolio analysis</li> <li>Intellectual curiosity and sufficient technical fluency to engage effectively with Product, Engineering, AI Research, and Forwa