NewsBreak
Strategy & Ventures Lead
$180K–$240K
Mountain View, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 3–5 years in one of the listed fields: top-tier investment banking, management consulting, corporate development, or strategy/BizOps.
About the job
Provides strategy, operating analysis, and investment discipline for NewsBreak’s AI initiatives and corporate venture arm, including evaluating performance, investment opportunities, and build/partner/buy decisions.
What you'll do
- Evaluate initiative strategy, growth, unit economics, and performance; set KPIs and run business reviews.
- Build business cases and financial models to guide resource allocation and strategic decisions.
- Develop and support NexBreak Ventures, including sourcing and diligencing investments and monitoring portfolio companies.
What they ask for
- 3–5 years in top-tier investment banking, management consulting, corporate development, or strategy/BizOps, with meaningful exposure to technology.
- Strong financial modeling skills, including business cases, market sizing, unit economics, and valuation.
- Hands-on data skills, including writing SQL and working with large datasets.
- Structured problem solving, clear executive communication, commercial judgment, and ability to influence across functions.
Nice to have
- Experience with Hive, Spark, or Python; cohort analysis and experimentation.
- Corporate venture, VC, or growth equity experience, including sourcing and diligence.
Pay
$180,000 — $240,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Hive, Spark, Python
AI focus
Evaluates NDot AI, an AI growth platform for publishers and creators, and Nearby AI, a local-intent marketplace; helps define investment value through AI and technology expertise.
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