Associate - Product Strategy

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly driven, analytically strong, and strategically minded professional. Think Tank is a one-of-its-kind unit in the industry, bringing cutting-edge thought, long-term vision, and strategic acumen to develop industry-leading brainpower. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping our product, venture, and financial technology strategies - combining a top-tier consulting mindset with execution capability, underpinned by strong business and financial understanding, entrepreneurial spirit, and creativity.

Key Responsibilities:

- Apply strong business analytics, statistics, and quantitative analysis to drive data-informed decision-making and modelling.

- Work through complex business problems with analytical rigor to arrive at sound recommendations.

- Bring a working knowledge of financial services, FinTech, or applied AI trends and evolving technologies to strategic discussions.

- Support venture-building efforts - early-stage product ideation, business model innovation, and go-to-market strategy.

- Bring a creative, entrepreneurial approach to problem-solving and opportunity identification.

- Travel as required for client visits, partnership meetings, and market research.

Work Experience:

- 1-3 years of prior full-time experience in any of the following (specific employer/firm is flexible - assess the nature of the work, not the brand name):

- Strategy consulting - hands-on client-facing strategy work (not research/knowledge-support arms such as McKinsey's Knowledge Centre, BCG Vantage, or Bain's BCN)

- Product management at a top-tier startup or tech company, with genuine 0- 1 product-building and cross-functional leadership experience

- An MD's / CEO's office role within financial services

- Startup founder or early team member with strong ownership and a track record of building or scaling a product

- Design thinking roles at firms such as IDEO, frog, or similar innovation labs, combined with business/product strategy understanding

- Venture studios, corporate innovation teams, or accelerators, with experience incubating or growing startups