Corporate Strategist, Finance & Investment Strategy Pleasanton, California,

Who We Are & Why Join Us

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.

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We are looking for an exceptional Corporate Strategist, Finance & Investment Strategy to work at the intersection of corporate strategy, finance, capital allocation, investments, and company building. You will work directly with Avathon’s executive leadership and partner closely with Finance, Product, Corporate Development, and business leaders to evaluate strategic investments, growth opportunities, partnerships, and other decisions that shape Avathon’s long-term trajectory.

This role will help develop the financial and investment frameworks behind Avathon’s most important strategic decisions from evaluating capital allocation, strategic investments, partnerships, acquisitions, and long-range growth opportunities. This is an opportunity to combine rigorous financial analysis with strategic judgment and directly influence how a rapidly scaling Physical AI company invests its resources and builds long-term enterprise value.

• Help define Avathon’s financial and investment strategy, connecting company priorities, growth opportunities, capital requirements, and long-term value creation
• Develop financial models, investment cases, and scenario analyses to support major strategic decisions across products, markets, geographies, partnerships, and corporate initiatives
• Evaluate capital allocation decisions and develop frameworks for prioritizing investments across product development, AI and technology, market expansion, strategic partnerships, and other growth initiatives
• Assess potential strategic investments, acquisitions, partnerships, and other corporate development opportunities, including strategic rationale, financial returns, valuation, synergies, risks, and integration considerations
• Develop market sizing, revenue models, unit economics, profitability analyses, and long-range financial scenarios for new products, industry verticals, and market opportunities
• Analyze Avathon’s business model, pricing, margins, cost structure, and growth drivers to identify opportunities to improve scalability, capital efficiency, and long-term financial performance
• Monitor the AI, industrial technology, and investment landscape, including public companies, private companies, venture and growth investments, M&A activity, valuations, and emerging business models
• Support strategic planning and long-range company modeling, connecting market opportunity, product strategy, commercial growth, investment requirements, and financial outcomes
• Develop executive-level analyses and recommendations for Board, investor, financing,…