Corporate Strategy Manager, Labs

Corporate Strategy Manager, Bose Labs

The Corporate Strategy Manager, Bose Labs, is the strategy lead embedded within Bose-X. Bose-X defines and advances an enterprise-wide research agenda by identifying and prioritizing technology investments that can translate into high-potential future opportunities. This role sits at the intersection of advanced research and enterprise strategy, with direct exposure to senior leadership. You will partner with research leaders, business units, Corporate Development, and executives to evaluate investment opportunities, answer critical strategy questions, and recommend where to build, buy, partner, scale, pivot, or stop.

Bose is evolving its research agenda toward the Intelligent Edge, with focus areas including perceptual intelligence, adaptive sensing, orchestration, and security. These domains will power future platforms, technologies, and businesses. The ideal candidate is technically fluent, experienced in strategy and innovation, and thrives in ambiguous, early-stage environments.

• Define and prioritize strategic initiatives across research domains, emerging technologies, markets, and ecosystems
• Lead strategy projects end-to-end with speed, rigor, and clear structure
• Translate technical concepts into testable commercial value hypotheses
• Evaluate strategic options and guide decision-making based on customer value, market reality, and Bose advantage
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment through workshops and working sessions
• Develop executive-ready materials that distill complex inputs into clear recommendations
• Partner with Corporate Development on inorganic opportunities
• Build business cases, including market sizing, financial models, scenarios, and risk assessment

• Serve as the link between Bose-X and enterprise portfolio strategy
• Represent enterprise strategy in portfolio prioritization and investment discussions
• Define success metrics, learning milestones, KPIs, and investment gates for early-stage initiatives
• Support portfolio reviews with clear, data-driven recommendations (advance, pivot, partner, pause, or stop)

• Conduct primary and secondary research across markets, customers, competitors, and ecosystems
• Act as a go-to SME on emerging trends in edge AI, physical AI, and adjacent spaces
• Partner with insights teams to shape research priorities aligned to Bose-X needs

• Develop strong relationships across research, product, commercial, and corporate teams
• Incorporate diverse perspectives to strengthen recommendations and drive alignment
• Partner with Corporate Development, Partnerships, and FP&A on investment decisions

• Bring structure and rigor to ambiguous, front-end innovation work without slowing learning
• Establish repeatable approaches to translate research and external signals into strategic options and business opportunities

• 5+ years in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, venture strategy, or technology innovation environments
• Proven experience in innovation, new ventures, research commercialization, or early-stage business building
• Ability to lead ambiguous problems from framing through recommendation with minimal oversight
• Strong analytical skills (market sizing, business cases, financial modeling, scenario analysis)
• Customer-focused and commercially grounded; able to distinguish compelling technology from real value creation
• Technically fluent and comfortable working across scientific and business audiences
• Excellent executive communication skills
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills without formal authority
• Hands-on mindset; willing to lead, challenge, and build
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred