Loon · 3 months ago
Business Innovator
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$221K/yr - $275K/yr
10+ years expLoon is part of Alphabet’s moonshot factory, dedicated to inventing transformative technologies that aim to improve lives globally. The Business Innovator role involves working with deep-tech project teams to develop and commercialize moonshot projects, focusing on market strategies, partnerships, and investment readiness.
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Responsibilities
Lead market, business, product and partnerships strategy for specific moonshot projects including diving into exciting experiments and shaping key strategic initiatives
Roll up your sleeves on projects as an embedded Business Innovation team member with radical collaboration to accelerate our moonshots
Apply first principles systems thinking with the ability to set hypotheses and test them in the market with stakeholders and partners to progressively de-risk moonshot projects from a business perspective
As ‘player-coaches’, show up as critical thought partners and co-builders with our project leads
Support the investment readiness process for internal ventures preparing to graduate
Leverage our convening power and resources at X and Alphabet in your pursuit of accelerating moonshots
Qualification
Required
10 years of professional business experience with a significant focus on deep tech either through entrepreneurship, investing, management consulting or operating in a technical industry
Growth mindset with a strong propensity to learn and innovate through proactive problem, market, customer discovery
Deep analytical rigour, including demonstrable expertise with financial modelling for market, business and product development strategy. Specifically, deep experience and comfort with: Market discovery and analysis including stakeholder/expert interviews, Product marketing analysis (e.g. identifying and translating current unmet needs to moonshot product requirements, identifying target customer/user segments, revenue models and pricing), Go-to-market strategy and sequencing, Business financial modeling (e.g. market sizing, unit economics, pro forma P&Ls)
Ability to create significant strategic partnerships around early stage technology or ventures including sourcing, building alignment and closing strategic partnerships
Strong understanding of deep tech, emerging technologies, and the unique challenges of commercializing research and early technology innovations
Exceptional project management with a track record of successful, end-to-end project or deal execution, or entrepreneurial venture-building
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills including ability to effectively communicate both technical and non-technical information to mixed audiences
Ability to work effectively, lead through influence, and build strong relationships in a fast-paced, dynamic, and ambiguous environment
Preferred
MBA or equivalent strongly preferred
Demonstrated ability to de-risk a new product idea from a business perspective
Proven entrepreneurial background with experience as a founder or as an early employee at an early-stage startup
Hands-on experience designing and executing go-to-market strategies for novel technology products
Motivated by purpose and passion; you fall in love with problems, not solutions
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Company
Loon
Loon is a network of high altitude balloons used to provide stable internet coverage on the ground. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Loon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2021 (9)
2020 (12)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$125MKey Investors
HAPSMobile
2019-04-25Undisclosed· $125M
Recent News
2025-10-31
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