What We Do:

Uptake is a Chicago-based predictive analytics SaaS platform provider that empowers major industry leaders to optimize performance, reduce asset failures and enhance safety. At Uptake, we combine our strengths—machine learning, analytics, data visualization and software development—with the expertise of our industrial partners. The result is enormous savings in development time and resources for Uptake’s partners and a proven industrial grade software platform that delivers value to partners and their end customers.

What You'll Do:

As a Business Associate, you’ll help evaluate and execute strategic business development opportunities and executive initiatives. A Business Associate must have mix of strong business and technical skills. You will support multiple projects simultaneously, be highly self-motivated, and enjoy solving really hard problems. This is a highly visible role and critical to our success, and you’ll have the opportunity to grow rapidly in this role and gain senior executive exposure across a variety of industries.

The Business Associate will make an immediate and substantial impact on Uptake.

Responsibilities:

• Support the executive team on aspects of business development, which include research, analysis and creation of pitch, marketing and commercialization materials
• Support coordination of cross-functional engineering, design and product teams in the evaluation of technical employees, technology solutions and other product diligence
• Take on special projects on an as-needed basis

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from a top university
• 2 to 4 years of relevant work experience in management consulting or investment banking
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical ability, along with excellent business judgment
• Experience doing industry research, completing competitive landscaping and comparisons, doing value chain analyses, and building presentations
• Experience interacting with senior audiences and executives
• Strong project management skills, including a proven ability to think through all aspects of the process, manage long-term projects and multitask
• Experience working with concepts and technologies behind Big Data analytics, SaaS, predictive analytics and predictive maintenance
• Driven self-starter with a passion for excellence and an ability to work under minimal supervision
• Superb interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to build relationships successfully across teams