Business Analyst

Cie is a Venture Studio that specializes in accelerating growth and digital innovation for large enterprises and emerging startups. We leverage our domain expertise gained from dozens of early-stage ventures to support our partners from ideation to commercialization.

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We are seeking a skilled Business Analyst to play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of our portfolio companies and ventures through comprehensive market research and customer insights.

This is a contract-to-hire role designed for a generalist researcher who can adeptly analyze market trends, conduct competitive analysis, and deliver valuable customer insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Market Research:
• Conduct thorough and creative market research to evaluate subject company position relative to landscape competitors.
• Customer Insights:
• Design and execute studies to gather customer insights.
• Develop hypotheses on major problems to solve and use them as inputs to ideation.
• Facilitate customer cohort discussions, manage surveys/interviews, analyze results, and validate prototypes through customer feedback.
• Present findings and actionable insights to senior management.
• Strategic Analysis:
• Synthesize client, competitor, and customer information to identify key problems and opportunities.
• Create associations and sequence information to develop clear, data-driven recommendations.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of consulting experience, preferably with top-tier consulting firms or venture studios.
• Proven experience in market research, customer insights, and prototype development.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong critical reasoning skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Proficient in data analysis tools and methodologies.
• Bonus points for experience in project management and creating strategy or concept-based presentations.
• High tolerance for ambiguity and ability to work independently.