Corporate Strategist, Finance & Investment Strategy

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Who We Are & Why Join Us

Avathon is the leading Industrial AI autonomy platform, helping customers across heavy industries -- energy, mining, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, and logistics -- accelerate the journey toward autonomous operations. Our platform is built on a Computational Knowledge Graph foundation that contextualizes and connects operational data across siloed systems, bringing together time series, structured, unstructured, and machine vision data to power AI-driven applications in asset performance management, supply chain intelligence, visual AI, and global trade management. With capabilities spanning digital twins, normal behavior modeling, natural language processing, and computer vision, Avathon delivers real-time predictive intelligence and agentic decision-making at industrial scale.

Cutting-Edge AI Innovation -- Join a team at the forefront of AI, developing groundbreaking solutions that shape the future. High-Growth Environment -- Thrive in a fast-scaling startup where agility, collaboration, and rapid professional growth are the norm. Meaningful Impact -- Work on AI-driven projects that drive real change across industries and improve lives.

Learn more at: avathon.com

We are looking for an exceptional Corporate Strategist, Finance & Investment Strategy to work at the intersection of corporate strategy, finance, capital allocation, investments, and company building. You will work directly with Avathon’s executive leadership and partner closely with Finance, Product, Corporate Development, and business leaders to evaluate strategic investments, growth opportunities, partnerships, and other decisions that shape Avathon’s long-term trajectory.

This role will help develop the financial and investment frameworks behind Avathon’s most important strategic decisions from evaluating capital allocation, strategic investments, partnerships, acquisitions, and long-range growth opportunities. This is an opportunity to combine rigorous financial analysis with strategic judgment and directly influence how a rapidly scaling Physical AI company invests its resources and builds long-term enterprise value.

What You'll Work On

• Help define Avathon’s financial and investment strategy, connecting company priorities, growth opportunities, capital requirements, and long-term value creation
• Develop financial models, investment cases, and scenario analyses to support major strategic decisions across products, markets, geographies, partnerships, and corporate initiatives
• Evaluate capital allocation decisions and develop frameworks for prioritizing investments across product development, AI and technology, market expansion, strategic partnerships, and other growth initiatives
• Assess potential strategic investments, acquisitions, partnerships, and other corporate development opportunities, including strategic rationale, financial returns, valuation, synergies, risks, and integration considerations
• Develop market sizing, reven

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strategic and investment perspective

• Exceptional written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex financial and strategic analyses into clear narratives for executives, Board members, and investors
• Comfortable working directly with executives and operating across functions in a high-growth environment where investment priorities, technology, markets, and company strategy are evolving rapidly.

What You'll Learn

Within your first few years at Avathon, you will develop a rare combination of AI fluency, investment judgment, financial acumen, and company-building experience. You will learn how a frontier technology company allocates capital, evaluates investments, enters new markets, finances growth, assesses strategic transactions, and makes the decisions that shape long-term enterprise value. Working alongside executives and leaders across Finance, Product, and Strategy, you will gain exposure well beyond a traditional post-MBA finance role. If you want to learn how the next generation of AI companies is financed, scaled, and built, come help shape Avathon’s future.

Compensation & Benefits

• California base salary range: $150,000 – $190,000 USD (based on experience)
• Equity in the form of stock options
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) participation
• Generous PTO and company holidays

Ongoing learning and development opportunities
Avathon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Avathon is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us to discuss how we can assist you.