Maybell Quantum Industries - Strategy and Operations Associate

• Executive-Level Project Management, Communications & Chief of Staff Support: • Structure and lead complex, cross-functional projects from conception to completion, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and business teams to achieve strategic objectives. • Develop compelling presentations, investment memos, and other materials for the Board of Directors, investors, and strategic partners to communicate company strategy, progress, and key decisions. • Serve as a primary liaison to US headquarters in a chief-of-staff capacity, keeping leadership aligned on priorities, decisions, and follow-through across locations. • Coordinate executive schedules, meeting cadences, and travel across time zones, ensuring leadership time is focused on the highest-impact priorities. • Proactively identify and resolve cross-time-zone issues, acting as a point of escalation and continuity so work keeps moving outside US business hours. • Prepare briefing materials ahead of key meetings, track action items and commitments, and drive accountability on decisions made by the leadership team. • Corporate & Partnership Strategy: • Identify, evaluate, and execute strategic partnerships with industry leaders, research institutions, and key customers to accelerate growth and market adoption. • Develop financial models and business cases to support strategic decisions, including partnerships, M&A opportunities, and new market entry. • Lead due diligence efforts and support negotiations for high-priority commercial agreements and corporate development activities. • Market Intelligence & Strategic Planning: • Conduct in-depth market analysis and competitive intelligence to identify emerging trends, threats, and opportunities, providing actionable insights to the leadership team. • Partner with the leadership team to define the company's long-term strategic roadmap, aligning product development, commercial goals, and operational capabilities. • Operational Excellence & Scalability • Design and implement scalable internal processes (e.g., OKR tracking, cross-functional sprints, knowledge management) that reduce friction and increase velocity as the team grows. • Identify bottlenecks in the "lab-to-market" value chain, collaborating with technical leads to streamline procurement, supply chain, or rapid prototyping workflows. • Manage critical "special projects" that fall outside the scope of traditional departments, such as office relocations, ERP implementations, or regulatory compliance audits. • Commercialization & Go-to-Market (GTM) Execution • Support the launch of early pilot programs by coordinating delivery timelines, managing customer expectations, and establishing feedback loops between the customer and the engineering team. • Develop and refine pricing models and unit economics analysis for novel technologies, transitioning from theoretical models to actual market-tested commercial frameworks. • Create sales enablement materials that translate complex technical specifications into clear value propositions for non-technical stakeholders and early adopters.