Strategy & Business Development – Associate / Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Connecticut.

📋 Description

• Lead or assist in the execution and performance oversight of the company's strategic initiative portfolio.

• Set annual and long-term KPIs, track performance, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and highlight areas that need management intervention.

• Collaborate with Finance and other departments to convert strategic priorities, market forecasts, and competitive positioning into data-driven analyses.

• Perform scenario, sensitivity, valuation, and investment analyses to aid executive decision-making and capital markets readiness.

• Formulate recommendations concerning the strategic and economic ramifications of growth opportunities, investments, and commercial decisions.

• Generate concise, executive-ready analyses and recommendations tailored for senior leadership.

• Conduct market research, market sizing, and industry trend analysis spanning technologies, customers, competitors, and potential growth markets.

• Examine public companies using financial statements, SEC filings, earnings documentation, investor presentations, and valuation frameworks.

• Execute comparable company and competitive benchmarking analyses.

• Develop investment-style perspectives regarding competitors and relevant public-market peers.

• Convert market and competitive intelligence into actionable implications and recommendations for company strategy.

• Facilitate or lead initial engagement with potential customers and strategic partners.

• Create financial and commercial models to assess opportunities and partnerships.

• Evaluate customer economics, project financials, pricing frameworks, and alternative commercial models.

• Aid in structuring, negotiating, and assessing strategic partnerships and other growth opportunities.

• Prepare presentations, proposals, and additional commercial materials for customers and partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Business, or another quantitative field.

• Associate: typically, around 3–5 years of relevant experience.

• Manager: typically, around 5–8 years of relevant experience.

• Relevant experience in investment banking, investment management, private equity, management consulting, corporate strategy, corporate development, or a similarly demanding analytical environment.

• Proficient in financial modeling, valuation, and financial statement analysis.

• Capable of analyzing public companies and synthesizing financial, strategic, and market data into an investment or strategic perspective.

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

• Ability to structure and resolve complex, ambiguous business challenges.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to distill complex analyses into clear, executive-ready insights.

• High level of ownership, attention to detail, and execution discipline.

• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and collaborate effectively across departments.

• Investment banking or investing experience, especially in Power & Utilities, Energy, Industrials, Infrastructure, Technology, or related fields.

• Strong understanding of public markets, capital markets, public-company financial reporting, and investor viewpoints.

• Exposure to IPOs, equity capital markets transactions, investor-facing responsibilities, or public-company readiness initiatives.

• Experience in conducting company, industry, and investment analysis, and developing comparable company/valuation frameworks.

• Familiarity with Capital IQ, AlphaSense, FactSet, Bloomberg, or similar platforms.

• Interest in energy, power infrastructure, data centers, and emerging energy technologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Approximately 10–20% travel, including occasional visits to HyAxiom’s headquarters in Connecticut and attendance at conferences.

• Opportunity for extensive exposure to corporate strategy, public markets, business development, capital markets, customers, and partnerships.

• Chance to influence and implement strategy within a rapidly growing energy technology company.