Senior Strategy Associate

Akoya is seeking a Senior Strategy Associate to report into the Head of Corporate Strategy and Strategic Partnerships. This highly dynamic role supports work at the intersection of strategy, market and competitive intelligence, pricing, and cost optimization. This is an individual contributor role for an analytically strong professional who builds credibility and influence with internal colleagues

The work requires frequent cross-functional collaboration with Akoya’s Executive, Product Management, Growth, Customer Success, Marketing, and Engineering teams to advance Akoya’s core strategic initiatives and identify expansion opportunities

The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience in financial services, fintech, or a closely related finance-driven industry, paired with a strong background in strategic and analytical work, including financial models, business cases, and market analysis. This person is equally comfortable building a financial model as they are developing a presentation or white paper that synthesizes market developments. They bring structure to ambiguous, open-ended problems and help turn them into clear recommendations.

As a Senior Strategy Associate, you will...Market Analysis & Competitive Intelligence Monitor market, competitive, and regulatory developments (including Section 1033 rule making) and share key highlights with colleagues for awareness and recommended actions

Track technology, AI, regulatory, payments, and risk trends and summarize their implications for open finance

Understand global regulatory and market developments as learnings for the US market

Conduct deep dives on emerging players in the ecosystem who may be potential partners

Maintain competitive resources such as battle cards and win/loss insights to equip Growth and Marketing Contribute analysis to strategic planning and executive materials

Support pricing and monetization

Maintain and analyze product pricing models and packaging, partnering with Growth and Legal teams to incorporate customer and market input

Provide pricing benchmarks and competitive positioning analysis to support the Growth team Track pricing effectiveness and recommend adjustments based on data Maintain cost optimization tracking to identify anomalies and partner with Product & Engineering on reduction opportunities

Support Discovery & Evaluation of Key Initiative & Innovation Opportunities Conduct research and analysis for structured discovery on strategic initiatives, including customer research, value proposition development, and use case documentation

Develop business cases grounded in forecasting benefit realization and initial effort and investment estimates

Prepare clear, well-structured analysis and materials for the Head of Strategy and Executive team Experience and Skills Required Experience & Skills2–4 years’ experience in management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, product strategy, or a closely related functionAI native and/or highly motivated and comfortable with using AI tools (such as Claude) and automation for efficiency, productivity and acceleration, including using agents and skills to automate tasks

Must have hands-on experience in financial services, fintech, open finance/open banking, or another closely related, finance-driven industry, with a solid working knowledge of the industry.

Demonstrated ability to build financial models, business cases, and pricing analyses in Excel Experience conducting and synthesizing market and competitive analysis into clear, structured, repeatable outputs

Ability to distill complex, ambiguous problems into structured frameworks, action plans, and executive-ready presentations

Confident and comfortable engaging in technical discussions with Product, Engineering,…