Senior Venture Analyst - Rushlight Ventures

at  Cornerstone Research Group Inc

SEEKING A SENIOR VENTURE ANALYST TO JOIN OUR RAPIDLY GROWING VENTURE STUDIO!

Are you interested in hands-on market research, customer discovery, financial modeling, and how emerging technologies fit into the market? Rushlight Ventures is seeking a Venture Analyst.

The job duties breakdown is envisioned to be approximately:

• 70% market characterization, customer/user discovery, analysis, & recommendations
• 15% financial modeling/business planning
• 15% situational growth opportunities, depending on your skills & passions

This role will report to the President of Rushlight Ventures, but we operate as a team, and this role will have a voice in direction setting and decision making. The pace of work will ensure you can make a difference every day across multiple projects and task types.
Travel should be moderate, and this role has a hybrid work setting potential.

REQUIREMENTS

• Exclusive US citizenship required
• B.S. in business administration (or equivalent) or MBA from an accredited university required
• Minimum 4 years experience in market research and characterization, and analysis of business strategy and value proposition is preferred
  Rushlight Ventures provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), age, genetic information, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
  Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Conduct market research over a wide range of high-tech markets, such as aerospace, medical, power, defense, software, sensors, electronics, etc.
• Draft market characterization reports
• Develop initial commercialization strategy, including product-market fit and go-to-market strategies
• Analyze market size, growth, segments, channels, competition, behaviors, trends, margin structure, M&A activity, etc.
• Ability to understand the value proposition of emerging technology and how it might fit into the market
• Conduct first-person customer discovery
• Apply classic analysis tools, such as SWOT, Porter, Wendy Kennedy, business model canvas, etc.
• Compile analysis and provide recommendations
• Develop financial models and pro forma projections to use as a basis for understanding the relative value of specific business opportunities
• Contribute to creating commercialization plans and business plans
• To be successful in Rushlight Venture’s corporate culture, qualified candidates must be able to:
• Perform in the fast-paced, unstructured environment of a rapidly growing start-up
• Be a self-starter
• Work independently to determine solutions to complex, underdefined tasks
• Take responsibility to manage tasks and projects
• Quickly adapt to changing needs
• Communicate with executives and engineers
• Quickly comprehend new emerging technologies and assess their value proposition
• Apply a get-it-done, and get-it-done-right mindset coupled with attention to detail

• 70% market characterization, customer/user discovery, analysis, & recommendations
• 15% financial modeling/business planning
• 15% situational growth opportunities, depending on your skills & passion