Senior Analyst, AI-Enabled Strategy & Long-Term Planning

191 Altera Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera seeks a Senior Analyst for AI-Enabled Strategy and Long-Term Planning in San Jose, CA. You will translate data and AI opportunities into strategic choices, plans and measurable outcomes, partnering with business, finance, product, marketing, and data teams.

Apply rigorous analysis and practical AI knowledge to inform senior leaders, guiding cross-functional initiatives through ambiguity toward value creation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in strategy, business planning, operations, finance, marketing or sales operations, analytics, or related.
• Strong business acumen including understanding of value drivers and strategic priorities.
• Ability to structure and solve complex problems using quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Experience building or using dashboards, KPI frameworks, or scenario analyses to inform decisions.
• Familiarity with AI systems and tools, including generative AI and AI-assisted analytics, with attention to privacy and bias considerations.
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication for senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional workstreams amid ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Shape and operationalize long-range business plans.
• Turn data and AI opportunities into clear strategic choices, plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner across business, finance, product, marketing, sales operations, data, and technical teams.
• Assess where AI can improve decisions or workflows and communicate recommendations concisely.
• Manage cross-functional workstreams and deliver outcomes amid changing inputs.

Skills

Strategic planning

Analytical modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

AI systems familiarity

Data visualization

Executive communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Analytics, Information Systems, or related field

Job description

Job Details: Job Description: The Senior Analyst, AI-Enabled Strategy & Long-Term Planning will help shape and operationalize the organization’s long-range business plans. This person will combine strong business judgment, analytical rigor, and practical knowledge of AI systems and tools to turn complex data and emerging opportunities into clear strategic choices, plans, and measurable outcomes. The role partners across business, finance, product, marketing, sales operations, data, and technical teams. It is suited to someone who can understand how the business creates value, assess where AI can improve decisions or workflows, and communicate recommendations in a concise, compelling way to senior stakeholders. This is an applied strategy-and-planning role; it does not require building foundation models or serving as a production ML engineer. The pay range below is for Bay Area California only. Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance. $133.2K - $212.7K USD

Job Type: Regular Shift: Shift 1 (United States of America) Primary Location: San Jose, California, United States Additional Locations:

Posting Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation or ordinance.

About Altera Altera: Accelerating Innovators Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in strategy, business planning, business operations, finance, marketing or sales operations, analytics, or a related discipline; equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.
• Strong business acumen, including the ability to understand business models, value drivers, customer or market context, financial and operational trade-offs, and strategic priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to independently structure and solve complex business problems using quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Experience building or using analytical models, forecasts, dashboards, KPI frameworks, or scenario analyses to inform decisions.
• Practical familiarity with AI systems and tools (for example, generative AI and AI-assisted analytics), including the ability to assess appropriate use, verify outputs, and recognize limitations, privacy concerns, and potential bias.
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including experience presenting concise recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional workstreams, align contributors, and deliver outcomes amid ambiguity and changing inputs.