Strategy & Corporate Development Associate

Important Note: this role is based in Amsterdam, and we welcome candidates excited by that move.
The company offers full visa sponsorship - so whether you're in the UK, the US, or elsewhere in Europe. If you're a European currently abroad and thinking about coming back home, this could be an ideal route.
There's flexibility to start from your current location for the first couple of months, but please note that full-time relocation to Amsterdam is required thereafter.
The CompanyOur client is a venture-backed deep-tech scale up developing mission critical technology for security-sensitive and highly regulated end markets. The business operates at the intersection of advanced technology and geopolitics, a space attracting significant strategic and government attention and is scaling rapidly through a well-capitalised growth phase.
The Role Strategic analysis & positioning

• Conduct market, competitive, and ecosystem analyses
• Develop business cases for new markets, products, and strategic initiatives
• Structure complex strategic questions and translate them into clear recommendations for the leadership team

Executive narrative & investor readiness

• Build and continuously refine board- and investor-grade materials (strategic memos, narratives, presentations)
• Translate deeply technical work into clear, compelling storylines and visuals for senior stakeholders
• Own key fundraising infrastructure, including structuring and maintaining a diligence-ready virtual data room

Special projects

• Lead and support high-impact, cross-functional strategic initiatives
• Contribute to organisational and operational structuring through a high-growth phase

Your Profile

• 2–4 years at a top-tier strategy consultancy, in investment banking, big tech, or a strategy/corp dev role within a start-up or scale-up
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability; able to distil complexity into clear insight quickly
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity in a high-performance environment
• Highly ambitious, ownership-driven, and intellectually rigorous
• Nice to have: familiarity with the semiconductor market or semiconductor systems