Strategy

Chai Discovery•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

We are building a strategy team to take on the hardest open questions about our business and turn them into decisions we act on. Chai's business model has no real precedent. We sell a new kind of technology into a very large market, in an era where few people can say with confidence where things are headed. The questions are hard and the answers consequential: how we price, which segments and products we expand into, and what makes our position durable, and so on. And you'll need to be ready to embed with teams on problems ranging from scaling lab capacity, buying versus building compute, or planning a data generation effort. The work runs from framing to implementation. You'll scope a problem, run primary research with customers and outside experts, build the quantitative case, reach a conclusion, and see it through. A project isn't done when the memo is written. It's done when the decision is made and in place.

Requirements

Structured, quantitative thinker with good instincts
Produces conclusions, not just inputs
Ability to influence and push decisions across teams
Comfortable making justified assumptions with incomplete information
Disciplined about revisiting assumptions
Knows which threads to pull on an expert call
Nose for connecting dots, extracting signal, and folding new data points into the larger picture
Trained in management consulting, venture or growth investing, or quantitative research
May have moved into strategy or special projects at a high-growth technology company
Ability to learn a technical domain quickly