Lead, Business Engineer

NAX
We are NAX, the New Asset Exchange, a global fintech and venture building pioneer with headquarters in Manhattan Beach, California, USA and a presence across North America, Europe and Asia. We build new ventures in partnership with the world's leading institutions. With our proven method, our technology solutions and our diverse team of management consultants, experienced entrepreneurs, venture capitalists & industry experts we create, launch and scale new high-growth companies.
NAX Group maintains its headquarters in Manhattan Beach, CA and has offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Tampa, Frankfurt, Munich, and Paris.
NAX is always searching for entrepreneurs, innovators, technologists, and business builders to join our global team. We provide an innovative culture and the unique opportunity to commercialize corporate-backed, high social impact products alongside the world's leading corporations. Join us and help build the products and markets of tomorrow.
Job Summary:
As our Lead Associate in our Business Engineering cohort, you will research a range of topics/issues, summarizing available data and suggesting innovations. Work with the team to develop plans for testing innovative ideas. Using both broad experience and diverse background in innovation and entrepreneurship, this role ensures the delivery of a strong pipeline of impactful opportunities and solutions for creative products, technologies, and business models.
What you get to do:

• Owns the planning phase through to execution/ early stand-up of a new venture project from inception to launch
• Serve as a voice to clarify the expectations of customers on new problems and solutions. Using human-centered design principles, you will prepare/ conduct primary user research, present target user personas, market sizing, journey maps to identify and prioritize user pains, unmet market needs and design principles
• Uses empathy as an excavation tool, to divine the problem beneath the problem; facilitate ideation with creativity and courage to uncover best possible range of solutions against user pains/ market needs
• Ability to create and test prototypes, MVPs, launch beta pilots and proofs of concept development as a means to test, learn and validate or pivot to arrive at most viable products and business models for commercialization
• Own the development of GTM strategy, exploring multiple launch paths and exit opportunities
• Mentor members of the core project team, creating a high-performance, innovative, collaborative, continuous learning culture
• Drive quality deliverables for the work and embrace data-driven decision-making and diversity of perspectives to get there
• Alongside project work, you will maintain user-centricity and objectivity, supporting decisions with proof points & market data from testing cycles
• Support best practices by scouting and implementing market research methods for novel ideas, methods, and insights. You will promote open innovation through the introduction of new tools and processes that encourage creative thinking. Lead is willing/ able to invent new tools when the existing tools don't fit
• Build/ maintain relationships internally and externally that help facilitate rapid, scrappy experimentation by "borrowing" smarts, resources, or permission from others
• Identifies business obstacles throughout solution discovery and development
• Occasional travel required

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Coach team members on career development opportunities and strategies
• Recognize others' strengths & skill set to plan & assign work
• Demonstrated ability to work well with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams; technical, business functional, and customers. Comfortable with relationship management related to both stakeholders and a responsible, equitable approach to conflict resolution as necessary
• Skilled at managing people and contributing to company culture, from performance management to professional development
• Excellent organizational, time management, and project management skills

What you bring to the team:

• Empathetic, tenacious, resilient, nonconforming lender who uses humor and vision to help shape a better world. Someone who wants to bring others along for the ride and is willing to both learn and teach
• Strategic thinker with the ability to build and execute innovative products, combined with the tactical ability to execute simultaneously against multiple competing priorities
• Strong project management skills. Must be able to provide structure, be proactive, navigate ambiguity, be flexible to change, manage stakeholders, hold others accountable and create appropriate professional collateral (e.g., decks, white papers, design briefs, project plans, etc.)
• Leading cross-functional teams and extracting the best from each team member, ability to leverage change management best practices to mitigate resistance, Track record of taking action "getting things done"
• Exceptional communication, active listening, critical thinking, and presentation skills
• Passionate about solving the right problems, by leveraging the right questions, enjoys learning about people, following trends, attending events, etc
• Ability to work and manage projects independently. Ability to work without supervision. Feels comfortable with broad latitude for decision-making
• Ability to apply broad/ diverse expertise or unique knowledge and professional concepts to develop resolutions to critical issues
• Ability to network with key contacts outside their own area of expertise and create formal networks with key decision-makers
• Self-aware, possess a learner's growth mindset. Continuously seeks and provides feedback, open to new perspectives, and remains coachable
• Proficiency with Google suite, especially Slides & Sheets

Education and Experience:

• 7+ years of experience with strategy development, business planning, venture building or equivalent
• Experience doing market research and analysis to develop the following:
• market sizing, customer segmentation, go-to-market strategy, competitive analysis, regulatory strategy, product roadmap, customer journey, right-to-win, etc.
• Ability to build high-level financial models from the ground up
• A background in product prototyping and testing with design or product development expertise
• Ability to dive into research and synthesize findings in a concise, thoughtful & organized way
• Track record of building/launching new products, businesses or teams/divisions. Demonstrate ownership of complex projects or work from inception to delivery.
• Bachelor's degree in Design, Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Architecture or equivalent

Total Rewards and Benefits
NAX Group offers a hybrid work environment and flexible unlimited PTO. We prioritize ongoing employee development and provide our employees with their own LinkedIn Learning account and access to over 17,000 courses. Other benefits include 401k, health, dental, and vision insurance. Our dress code is casual.
Life at NAX
We are a forward thinking organization, and believe that great people deserve a great place to work. This includes generous compensation and benefits. We desire a full commitment from our team members, and we show the same commitment in return.
We are headquartered in beautiful Manhattan Beach, CA and offer a fun and collaborative work environment: our offices are pet friendly, and we host regular town halls, company lunches (UberEats for remote employees!), trivia nights, beach outings, monthly birthday gatherings, and other scheduled events. We offer a wide variety of snacks and beverages to enjoy when in office as well.
EEOC Statement
NAX Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.