Chief Strategy Officer

ActAI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

ActAI in Palo Alto seeks a Chief Strategy Officer to own group strategy and major strategic initiatives across ActAI and its portfolio. The role identifies where the group should compete, invest and expand, turning decisions into executable plans and owning group positioning and communications.

You will develop group strategy, evaluate new markets, build business cases, and lead strategic initiatives including market entry, partnerships, investments and potential M&A.

Qualifications

• Strong strategy experience in a technology company, high-growth startup, strategy, consulting investment environment, or your own startup.
• Experience building financial models and business cases with measurable outcomes.
• Excellent written communication and ability to turn complex business topics into clear narratives.

Responsibilities

• Develop Group strategy across existing businesses, new products and markets.
• Evaluate new businesses, markets, competitors and industry shifts and recommend where the Group should invest.
• Build business cases and financial models for new opportunities and major strategic decisions.
• Lead strategic initiatives including market entry, partnerships, investments and M&A where relevant.
• Track competitive developments and identify risks and opportunities across the Group.
• Own Group positioning, corporate narratives and communications around major company developments.
• Work with business leaders to translate strategy into specific priorities, investments and execution plans.

Skills

Strategy experience

Financial judgement

Analytical skills

Written communication

Corporate development

M&A experience

Hands-on operating style

Job description

There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting.

Our product focuses on achieving high reliability for long-running workflows, persistent context, and real-world task completion. We believe products will greatly reduce hallucinations.

Our objective is to organise anyone's life, allowing us all to spend time on valuable and meaningful things

About the Role

The Chief Strategy Officer will own Group strategy and major strategic initiatives across ActAI and its portfolio of businesses. The role will identify where the group should compete, invest and expand, and turn those decisions into executable plans. The role will also own group-level positioning and communications around major corporate developments.

What you will be doing

• Develop Group strategy across existing businesses, new products and markets.
• Evaluate new businesses, markets, competitors and industry shifts and recommend where the Group should invest.
• Build business cases and financial models for new opportunities and major strategic decisions.
• Lead strategic initiatives including market entry, partnerships, investments and M&A where relevant.
• Track competitive developments and identify risks and opportunities across the Group.
• Own Group positioning, corporate narratives and communications around major company developments.
• Work with business leaders to translate strategy into specific priorities, investments and execution plans.

What you will need

• Strong strategy experience in a technology company, high-growth startup, strategy, consulting investment environment or your own startup.
• Experience developing and executing strategies with measurable business outcomes.
• Strong commercial and financial judgement with the ability to evaluate markets, businesses and investments.
• Strong analytical capability and ability to build business cases and financial models directly.
• Excellent written communication and ability to turn complex business topics into clear narratives.
• Experience with corporate development, investments, M&A or corporate communications is useful.
• Hands-on operating style - able to research, analyse, write and drive strategic work personally.