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Corporate Strategist, Platform and Product Strategy

Avathon


Job Location:

Pleasanton, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 150000 - 190000
Posted: 29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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.

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We are looking for an exceptional Corporate Strategist Platform & Product Strategy to work at the intersection of corporate strategy Physical AI product technology and markets. You will work directly with Avathons executive leadership and partner closely with Product AI Research Product Engineering Forward Engineering and industry teams to help shape the strategic direction of Avathons platform and product portfolio. This is an opportunity to directly influence what Avathon builds where we invest and how we translate frontier AI capabilities into differentiated products for the physical economy.

What Youll Work On

  • Help define the long-term strategy strategic priorities and product investment roadmap for Avathons Physical AI platform and product portfolio
  • Evaluate Avathons platform capabilities applications and industry solutions to identify opportunities to build expand consolidate partner or enter new product categories
  • Analyze customer needs industry workflows operational challenges and market dynamics to determine which problems Avathon should productize and where the greatest opportunities for differentiated value exist
  • Evaluate advances across agentic AI autonomous systems knowledge graphs multimodal AI digital twins optimization and decision intelligence and translate them into strategic implications for Avathons platform and roadmap
  • Develop strategic perspectives on how Avathons platform should address high-value opportunities across energy mining manufacturing aerospace & defense and supply chain & logistics
  • Develop analytical frameworks and business cases to evaluate new products platform capabilities market opportunities partnerships and strategic technology investments
  • Develop a deep understanding of the evolving AI and industrial technology landscape identifying competitive shifts emerging architectures new entrants and technology developments that should influence Avathons strategy
  • Partner with Product Management and Marketing to articulate how Avathons platform and products are differentiated and help define the strategic narrative for Physical AI and industrial autonomy
  • Work with customers Forward Engineering and industry experts to identify recurring operational problems and determine which customer-driven innovations can become repeatable scalable products
  • Work directly with senior leadership on platform direction product portfolio decisions strategic partnerships build-versus-buy decisions market entry and other company-level strategic priorities

What Were Looking For:

  • MBA required from a leading global university with a strong record of academic and professional achievement
  • Approximately 35 years of pre-MBA experience in management consulting corporate strategy product strategy or technology strategy
  • Strong interest in AI enterprise technology product strategy industrial technology and the transformation of the physical economy
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate markets technologies products and business models and translate complex analysis into clear strategic recommendations
  • Ability to take an ambiguous question whether around a new AI capability product category industry opportunity or strategic investment and develop a rigorous point of view and actionable path forward
  • Strong understanding of how technology platforms become products including the relationship between core platform capabilities applications customer requirements and market opportunities
  • Strong analytical capabilities including market sizing competitive analysis business-case development strategic modeling and product/portfolio analysis
  • Intellectual curiosity and sufficient technical fluency to engage effectively with Product Engineering AI Research and Forward Engineering teams on emerging AI technologies and their commercial potential
  • Exceptional written verbal and executive-level communication skills with the ability to distill complex technology and market questions into clear decisions and narratives
  • Comfortable working directly with executives and operating across functions in a high-growth environment where strategy technology and product direction are evolving rapidly.

What Youll Learn

Within your first few years at Avathon you will develop a rare combination of AI fluency strategic judgment commercial acumen and operating experience. You will learn how a frontier technology company identifies markets defines new categories shapes products wins complex global enterprises and scales from breakthrough customer deployments to repeatable businesses. Working alongside executives product leaders AI teams and customers across some of the worlds most consequential industries you will gain exposure well beyond a traditional post-MBA strategy role. If you want to help define how Physical AI becomes a global industry come build the market with us.

Compensation & Benefits

  • California base salary range: $150000 $190000 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.


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