--- title: 'Business Strategy Lead at Brandlight' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/business-strategy-lead-brandlight-tel-aviv-paxvgyhxvjcf' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Business Strategy Lead at Brandlight - **Company:** Brandlight - **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-09-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brandlight/18d87c8e-efed-4d6a-9432-e750d02cb6a6 ## Job description ## About Brandlight Brandlight is the leading enterprise AI platform for brands, helping the world’s leading companies understand, manage, and optimize how they are discovered, represented, and chosen across AI-driven search, commerce, and advertising. As AI becomes a new marketing and distribution channel, Brandlight is defining the systems that determine how brands are surfaced, trusted, and chosen. ## About the Role As a Business Strategy Lead at Brandlight, you will own high-impact strategic engagements with enterprise customers and help shape how the company turns customer needs, market signals, and data into business opportunities. You will work directly with senior customer stakeholders, Brandlight leadership, Product, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and R&D to structure complex business questions, develop clear recommendations, and drive strategic initiatives from problem definition through execution. This role combines strategic problem-solving, executive communication, and commercial judgment. You will lead complex customer and business cases, identify opportunities to deepen customer value and expand relationships, and translate what we learn from customers and the market into inputs that improve our product, delivery model, and go-to-market approach. We are looking for someone who combines top-tier analytical thinking with strong client presence, sound business judgment, and the ability to operate independently in a fast-moving environment. ## Responsibilities - Own strategic engagements with enterprise customers from problem definition through analysis, recommendation, and execution. - Turn complex data, customer signals, and market inputs into clear insights and executive-level presentations. - Build and deliver executive-level narratives, presentations, and recommendations for senior customer and internal stakeholders. - Identify opportunities to deepen customer value, expand relationships, and develop new commercial opportunities across accounts and verticals. - Help build repeatable delivery, expansion, and go-to-market motions. - Partner closely with Product, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, R&D, and leadership. - Develop repeatable frameworks, delivery methodologies, and strategic approaches that can scale across customers and use cases. ## Requirements - 4+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy, business operations, partnerships, or a similar high-impact role. - Background from a top-tier consulting firm such as McKinsey, BCG, Bain, or similar strong advantage. - Proven experience leading strategic, client-facing engagements with senior stakeholders. - Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to bring structure to ambiguity. - Strong analytical skills and ability to turn data into clear business recommendations. - Strong business judgment and the ability to connect customer needs, market dynamics, and commercial opportunities. - High ownership, strong business judgment, and ability to move from strategy to execution. - Fluent English, written and spoken. Advantages - Experience with enterprise customers, Fortune 500 brands, or senior marketing/business stakeholders. - Experience in SaaS, AI, MarTech, analytics, digital transformation, or data products. - Experience building partnerships, market expansion, or new commercial motions. ## Why Join Us At Brandlight, your work will directly shape how the company grows, how customers experience value, and how we build a new category. You will work directly with senior leadership and some of the world’s leading brands on strategic questions at the intersection of AI, marketing, and business. The role combines the strategic intensity and problem-solving of consulting with the ownership, speed, and long-term impact of building a category-defining technology company. ## About Brandlight ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Brandlight is an AI Visibility Platform that helps Fortune 500 enterprise brands measure, optimize, and grow their presence across all AI-driven search, ads, and agentic commerce channels. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, led by Pelion Venture Partners, Feb 2026) - **Headquarters**: New York, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Imri Marcus (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI-powered marketing technology (AI Visibility / Generative Engine Optimization) - **Target customers**: B2B Enterprise (Fortune 500 CMOs and marketing teams) - **Mission or purpose**: Help brands navigate the shift to AI-driven discovery and turn fragmented AI signals into measurable, actionable outcomes. ## Products & Services - **[AI Visibility Platform](https://www.brandlight.ai/)**: A SaaS platform that provides a holistic view of how brands appear across all major AI engines (chatbots, search agents, etc.). Includes modules for: - Holistic Visibility Command Center (cross-brand, cross-region) - Query Intent & Citation Analysis - Sentiment Analysis, Mention Frequency, and Direct Bias Score - Server Log Analysis to monitor AI crawlers and agents - Competitive Insights and Publisher Performance Intelligence - Content Optimization and ROI/Budget Optimization - Strategic Partnership Insights and Influencing (identifying sources that shape AI answers) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding – **$47.3M** raised across 4 rounds (Seed rounds and Series A) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Pelion Venture Partners (led Series A), Cardumen Capital, G20 Ventures. Advisory board includes Tony Weisman (former CMO Dunkin’, CEO Digitas) and David Edelman (Senior HBS Fellow, Fortune50 CMO) - **Growth Signals**: - 170% headcount growth YoY (now 44 employees) - Achieved “millions in ARR” within months of founding from the world’s largest companies - Trusted by “over 100 global brands” (as of mid-2026) - Global footprint: offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv, Madrid; employees across 5 countries ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover & specialty**: Purpose-built for the emerging AI visibility category, not an SEO bolt-on. - **Enterprise-grade infrastructure**: SOC 2 Type II compliant, multi-region and multi-lingual deployment. - **Real-time data & actionability**: Tracks every AI engine, agent, and crawler; provides direct recommendations and strategic enablement. - **Cross-functional platform**: Serves content, partnerships, brand, technical, and social teams – not just SEO. - **White-glove support**: Hands-on AI strategist enablement, not just a tool. ## Strategic Focus - **Consolidating the new AI channel**: Replacing fragmented point solutions with a unified platform for AI visibility. - **Driving ROI**: Helping enterprises reallocate budget and content efforts toward the highest-impact AI placements. - **Expanding partnerships & content intelligence**: Deeper integration with publishers and agentic commerce. - **Global scaling**: Growing across US, Europe, and Israel, hiring across engineering, AI research, and customer success. ## Why Work Here - **Hypergrowth environment**: “Hyper growth” – the team has grown 170% in a year and the company is scaling rapidly. - **Ownership & impact**: High trust, high expectations; employees are expected to act like owners and solve real problems without playbooks. - **Work model**: Hybrid – offices in New York, London, Tel Aviv, Madrid. - **Culture**: Described as “Humble. Hungry. Helpful.” Fast-moving, collaborative. - **Perks**: Flexible PTO, fully stocked kitchen, dog-friendly (dog lovers welcome). - **Engineering & AI culture**: Cutting-edge data challenges around AI inference, crawler analysis, and NLP; “rocket ship” startup with a “generational” market opportunity. - **Open roles** (as of mid-2026): Senior Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI Researcher, AI Strategist, Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Sales Account Executive, Senior Customer Success, Senior Data Engineer, and more. ## Sources 1. [brandlight.ai](https://www.brandlight.ai/) 2. [brandlight.ai/careers](https://www.brandlight.ai/careers) 3. [brandlight.ai/about](https://www.brandlight.ai/about) 4. [linkedin.com/company/brandlightai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/brandlightai) 5. 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