{"id":2739276,"url":"https://alion.io/job/apptronik-strategy-operations-associate","title":"Strategy & Operations Associate","company":{"id":47983,"name":"Apptronik","domain":"apptronik.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/apptronik","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":23,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.478,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":77,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":65000,"max_usd":126000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":165},"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-16T20:10:06Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-16","last_verified_at":"2026-10-17T10:46:05Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life. Our flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate thoughtfully with people, starting with critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, the home, and beyond.\nWe operate at the cutting edge of Applied AI, applying our expertise across the full robotics stack to solve some of society's most important problems. You will join a team dedicated to bringing Apollo to market at scale, tackling the complex challenges like safety, commercialization, and mass production to change the world for the better.\nJOB SUMMARY \nThe Strategy & Operations Associate is a high-potential generalist in Customer Transformation & Deployments (CTD), the team that owns commercial strategy, transformation and deployments, pricing, competitive insights, and market expansion. Acting as the team’s analytical pinch hitter, you will pick up the most urgent problem, structure it from first principles, run the analysis, and deliver a clear recommendation that shapes pricing, deals, and strategy. This is a development role by design, with a path to leading a vertical and broad executive exposure, and it is built for someone who thrives in ambiguity and learns fast.\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES or KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES\nBuild models and fact bases for pricing and deal economics, ROI/business cases, market sizing, and use case prioritization.\nStructure ambiguous questions into hypotheses, test them with data, and deliver clear, actionable recommendations.\nMaintain data templates and KPI tracking so insights are repeatable across engagements.\nFlex across commercial strategy, deal analysis, pricing, and competitive insights based on business priority.\nOwn discrete workstreams end-to-end, such as competitor profiles, pricing inputs, and healthcare value chain mapping.\nConnect cross-vertical patterns to sharpen decisions across the Customer Transformation team.\nSupport engagements and transformation-led sales cycles with analysis, value sizing, and KPI definition.\nPrepare leadership and board content; track quarterly KPIs and flag risks early.\nFeed engagement learnings into playbooks, pricing, and competitive intelligence.\nRotate across one primary and one support vertical (reassessed quarterly) to build range across insights, pricing, delivery, healthcare, and strategy.\nSKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS\nFirst-principles thinker who structures ambiguous problems, builds models from scratch, and pressure-tests assumptions.\nStrong quantitative skills, including advanced Excel/Sheets; SQL or BI a plus.\nAbility to produce executive-ready materials and clear recommendations.\nExposure to pricing, market sizing, competitive analysis, or customer transformation.\nSelf-starter comfortable switching context and influencing without authority.\nInterest in healthcare, manufacturing, or logistics a plus; AI/robotics experience a plus, not required.\nEDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE\n2-4 years of experience in management consulting (Associate to Senior Associate), strategy & operations, BizOps, finance, or a comparable analytical role.\nPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:\nProlonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer\nMust be able to lift 15 pounds at times\nVision to read printed materials and a computer screen\nHearing and speech to communicate\nOccasional travel to and within client sites (i.e., factories, hospitals, etc.)\n*This is a direct hire. Please, no outside Agency solicitations. \nApptronik 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.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3962,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Robotics AI","Robotic Components & Sensors","Humanoid Robots"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-16T20:11:56Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 23","filings_12m":23,"filings_prev_12m":20,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":157500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":77,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/apptronik-strategy-operations-associate","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/apptronik-strategy-operations-associate.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T12:32:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":16601,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":47983},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=47983"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fapptronik-strategy-operations-associate"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fapptronik-strategy-operations-associate"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fapptronik-strategy-operations-associate"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/apptronik-strategy-operations-associate\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fapptronik-strategy-operations-associate"}]}