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VP, Strategy

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Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in United States
Entry level
Owns group strategy and major strategic initiatives across ActAI’s businesses. Responsibilities include evaluating markets and investments, building business cases and financial models, leading market entry, partnerships and M&A initiatives, tracking competitors, shaping corporate narratives, and translating strategy into executable priorities and plans.
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About ActAI

There are over 5 billion users using basic applications today such email, notes, tasks, calendar and they're not AI-native. Our mission is to build proactive applications for anyone in the world, who are not used to complex prompting. We aim to bring intelligence to conversations, errands, organising and workflows, with minimal to no prompting.

Our first application is an agent-first mobile communication app. We believe building applications that users use daily for communication, coordination and collaboration needs will help integrate AI into their lives. The net effect is to eliminate misinformation, achieve low coordination costs, enable high quality tasks and collaboration at scale with minimal or little prompting.

 
About the Role

The VP, Strategy will own Group strategy and major strategic initiatives across ActAI and its portfolio of businesses. The role will identify where the group should compete, invest and expand, and turn those decisions into executable plans. The role will also own group-level positioning and communications around major corporate developments.

 
What you will be doing
  • Develop Group strategy across existing businesses, new products and markets.

  • Evaluate new businesses, markets, competitors and industry shifts and recommend where the Group should invest.

  • Build business cases and financial models for new opportunities and major strategic decisions.

  • Lead strategic initiatives including market entry, partnerships, investments and M&A where relevant.

  • Track competitive developments and identify risks and opportunities across the Group.

  • Own Group positioning, corporate narratives and communications around major company developments.

  • Work with business leaders to translate strategy into specific priorities, investments and execution plans.

 
What you will need
  • Strong strategy experience in a technology company, high-growth startup, strategy, consulting investment environment or your own startup.

  • Experience developing and executing strategies with measurable business outcomes.

  • Strong commercial and financial judgement with the ability to evaluate markets, businesses and investments.

  • Strong analytical capability and ability to build business cases and financial models directly.

  • Excellent written communication and ability to turn complex business topics into clear narratives.

  • Experience with corporate development, investments, M&A or corporate communications is useful.

  • Hands-on operating style - able to research, analyse, write and drive strategic work personally.

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