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:

The Corporate Development Associate will be part of the Corporate Development group and will work across the Corporate Development, Business Ventures, Legal, Finance and Product Teams. The Corporate Development Associate will be focused on supporting Uptake’s mergers and acquisitions efforts, strategic partnerships and product portfolio by enabling business development, value assessment, pricing strategy and competitive intelligence efforts. You will support multiple projects simultaneously, should be highly self-motivated, and must enjoy solving really hard problems. This is a highly visible role and critical to our success. You’ll have the opportunity to grow rapidly in this role and gain senior executive exposure.

Responsibilities:

• Support pricing and product packaging efforts
• Work with cross-functional teams to define value proposition across product categories
• Build financial models to assess the strategic value of new opportunities
• Professionally challenge cross-functional teams to substantiate and defend investments to ensure appropriate allocation of resources
• Support drafting partnership proposals
• Support the executive team on aspects of business development, which include research, analysis and creation of pitch, marketing and commercialization materials
• Perform research on industry and competitive trends
• Continually monitor industry dynamics, such as shifting market trends and customer behaviors to anticipate business opportunities
• Analyze proposed restructuring and acquisition and assess the tax consequences of specific transactions
• Conduct and execute post merger scaleout

Qualifications:

Required:

• 3 to 6 years of relevant work experience, preferably in strategy consulting, venture capital, technology-focused corporate development and strategy, due diligence–focused management consulting or technology-focused investment banking
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical ability, along with excellent business judgment
• Experience doing industry research, completing competitive landscaping and comparisons, 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
• 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

Preferred:

• Experience pricing products (SaaS product pricing preferred)

Why Work Here:

We build and deliver, then explore to build more. Curiosity and flexibility enable everything we do, and we get stronger as we make each new industry smarter. As a team, we bring our diverse backgrounds, beliefs and experiences to solve problems no one has yet to solve, at a speed no one has yet to experience. We support and challenge one another to bring out a new best in each of us, and we might have a little fun along the way.