Business Analyst, Strategy & Business Modeling

BTS•Chicago, IL

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Strategy Alignment and Business Acumen (SABA) team builds business simulations and models that sit at the heart of many BTS experiences. Our simulations help leaders visualize their role in their company's strategy and understand how their decisions move the business. As a Business Analyst in a Strategy & Business Modeling (SBM) role, you'll participate in discovery interviews, co-create the design of the simulation experience, build both the client participant facing UX and the model, and facilitate the simulation experience for client audiences. You'll also help shape how AI shows up inside the experiences themselves: including bespoke chatbots and custom agents. BTS is also using its unique expertise in business modeling to partner with our clients to help them adopt AI throughout the organization. As an SBMer, you will be one of the go-to experts within BTS to facilitate live working sessions with clients to help participants map their workflows to build their own agentic workflows and applications. This work is fast paced - you'll be staffed on multiple projects at once, across different industries, with different internal teams.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Willingness to travel 25-30%
Eligibility to work in the US permanently without sponsorship
Strong business and financial acumen and a love for problem solving
Business modeling and Advanced Excel skills are a must
Genuine comfort using AI to build things. You already use Claude, ChatGPT, or similar in your daily work, you know how to prompt well, and you understand what an LLM is doing under the hood
A bias toward action and a habit of keeping up with the AI landscape – it shifts fast, and this role requires staying current
Strong presentation and facilitation skills. You're comfortable in front of a room – from front-line managers to the C-suite – and can hold the conversation while a complex model is on screen
A workflow mindset. You understand that AI is only powerful when workflow surrounding the tools change.
Comfort with ambiguity. This role is still taking shape, and the right person will help define it

Nice To Haves

some scripting or coding experience (Python, VBA, or similar) – you don't need to be a software engineer, but if you can write a script when one is needed, that goes a long way
Backgrounds in engineering, finance, science, math, computer science, or economics are well-suited, though we have team members from all kinds of backgrounds and we love variety

Responsibilities

Participate in discovery interviews with client stakeholders and translate what you hear into a gamified model of how their business runs
Design and build business simulations and models and an expanding set of AI tools that let us prototype and ship faster than we ever could before
Build AI components into our experiences including practice bots and coaching agents
Work directly with both client teams and BTS colleagues to identify high-value AI use cases – from AI-powered simulations to AI enablement engagements where we help clients automate or accelerate workflows.
Co-create the simulation design with the client so the experience hits their objectives
Deliver, facilitate, and present the end solution to client teams from front-line managers up to the C-suite
Help leaders make sense of complex business models by presenting simplified, yet realistic models rich with tradeoffs that matter
Train clients on the AI tools we leave behind so the work keeps creating value after the workshop ends
Help leaders see how their decisions ripple through the business and the impacts they have
Bring strong business and financial expertise to every engagement so the model reflects what matters in the client's world
Contribute to a fast-moving point of view on how AI changes businesses and how BTS uses and delivers it to clients
Analyze simulation data and provide real world insights back to the client