Business Strategy Associate

ABOUT BRANDLIGHT Brandlight is the leading enterprise AI platform for brands, built to help the world’s leading brands understand, manage, and optimize how they are discovered, represented, and chosen across AI-driven search, commerce, and advertising. As AI rapidly becomes a trillion-dollar marketing and distribution channel, Brandlight is defining the systems that determine how brands are surfaced, trusted, and chosen. Join our team and help build the next generation of tools shaping the future of brand management in an AI-first world. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Business Strategy Analyst at Brandlight, you will support the leadership team and cross-functional teams on high-priority strategic and operational questions. You will help turn complex and ambiguous problems into structured analysis, clear insights, and actionable recommendations. Your work will support decisions across areas such as company priorities, growth opportunities, operating performance, market analysis, and cross-functional initiatives. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys working with data, solving problems, building clear business cases, and translating analysis into decisions and action. You will get broad exposure across the company while developing the judgment and operating skills required to work in a fast-growing technology business. We are looking for someone who combines strong analytical thinking, intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and a willingness to take ownership of their work. RESPONSIBILITIES - Analyze customer reports, AI visibility data, market inputs, and business signals. - Build clear, polished, customer-ready presentations and executive materials. - Work on multiple reports, decks, and deliverables in parallel with high accuracy. - Turn messy inputs into structured insights, summaries, and recommendations. - QA reports, slides, data points, formatting, language, and narrative flow. - Use AI tools, especially Claude and ChatGPT, to accelerate analysis, synthesis, writing, and QA. - Translate data and insights into clear recommendations for senior leadership and clients. - Contribute to customer, market, and competitive research to inform product and go-to-market strategy. REQUIREMENTS - 1–3 years of experience in consulting, business analysis, strategy, operations, research, or analytics. - Experience at a consulting firm or in a structured analytical environment is a strong advantage. - Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities, including experience with business cases. and data-driven decision-making. - Strong PowerPoint / Google Slides and Excel / Google Sheets skills. - High proficiency with AI tools, especially Claude and ChatGPT. - Exceptional attention to detail and high standards for accuracy, logic, and formatting. - Strong written English and ability to create polished business materials. - Highly organized, reliable, and able to manage many tasks under tight timelines. ADVANTAGES - Experience creating client-facing decks, reports, or executive summaries. - Experience with customer data, market research, competitive analysis, or large data sets. - Interest in AI, SaaS, marketing, brands, search, or commerce. - Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities. WHY JOIN US At Brandlight, you will work closely with the company’s most important customer and business questions, helping turn data and complexity into insights, decisions, and action. This role is a strong fit for someone who wants the pace and problem-solving of consulting, but within a fast-growing AI company where the work directly impacts customers, product, and growth.