Strategy & Ventures Lead

The role

The Strategy & Ventures Lead brings operating and investment discipline to NewsBreak's core business, AI initiatives, and NexBreak Ventures. This person will evaluate product-market fit, build financial models, and help build a corporate venture platform.

What you will do

• Evaluate NDot AI and Nearby AI on strategy, product-market fit, progress, team, resourcing and unit economics
• Analyze growth, funnels, retention and monetization in data systems
• Build business cases and financial models to inform resource allocation
• Set KPIs, milestones and stage gates and track performance
• Run regular business reviews with initiative leaders
• Help build an active corporate venture platform from the ground up
• Develop investment theses, source opportunities, lead diligence, model valuation and returns, and make investment recommendations
• Define how NewsBreak adds value beyond capital
• Support and monitor portfolio companies after investment
• Assess build, partner, invest and acquire options and strategic transactions

Required qualifications

• 3–5 years in top-tier investment banking, management consulting, corporate development, or strategy/BizOps
• Meaningful exposure to technology
• Strong financial modeling skills: business cases, market sizing, unit economics and valuation
• Hands-on data skills: comfortable writing SQL and working with large datasets
• Structured problem solving and clear executive communication
• Commercial judgment and a willingness to challenge constructively
• Ability to influence across functions
• Curious, proactive and low-ego

Nice to have

• Experience with Hive, Spark or Python
• Cohort analysis and experimentation
• Corporate venture, VC or growth equity experience, including sourcing and diligence
• M&A modeling or tech corporate development experience
• Background in marketplaces, consumer internet, media/adtech or AI
• Empathy for founders and a strong network for sourcing deals

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Options

About the company

NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with three platforms: NewsBreak, Nearby AI, and NDot AI. It was founded in 2015 and is a unicorn that invests in its people.