Strategic Operations & Data Analyst

About Cyngn

Based in Mountain View, CA, Cyngn is a publicly-traded autonomous technology company. We deploy self-driving industrial vehicles like forklifts and tuggers to factories, warehouses, and other facilities throughout North America. To build this emergent technology, we are looking for innovative, motivated, and experienced leaders to join us and move this field forward. If you like to build, tinker, and create with a team of trusted and passionate colleagues, then Cyngn is the place for you. Key reasons to join Cyngn: 

We are small and big.

With under 100 employees, Cyngn operates with the energy of a startup. On the other hand, we’re publicly traded. This means our employees not only work in close-knit teams with mentorship from company leaders—they also get access to the liquidity of our publicly-traded equity.

We build today and deploy tomorrow.

Our autonomous vehicles aren’t just test concepts—they’re deployed to real clients right now. That means your work will have a tangible, visible impact.

We aren’t robots. We just develop them.

We’re a welcoming, diverse team of sharp thinkers and kind humans. Collaboration and trust drive our creative environment. At Cyngn, everyone’s perspective matters—and that’s what powers our innovation.

About this role:

Cyngn is seeking a highly analytical, results-driven leader to own our company-wide data-driven decision-making initiative while supporting strategic finance and corporate development. You’ll partner across engineering, product, sales, and operations to embed metrics into daily execution and ensure decisions are grounded in actionable insights. You’ll also work closely with the CFO and CEO to evaluate partnerships, M&A, capital raising, and market opportunities.

• Embed data-driven decision making across all departments.
• Define KPIs with functional leaders and ensure consistent tracking.
• Develop dashboards, reports, and performance monitoring systems for real-time visibility
• Collaborate with engineering and operations to improve data pipelines and processes for quality and integrity.
• Train managers and teams to interpret and apply data to strategy and execution.
• Conduct market and competitive analyses, including comparable company and precedent transaction research.
• Build and maintain financial models to support M&A, partnerships, product launches, and long-term planning.
• Evaluate inbound and outbound strategic opportunities, including acquisitions and joint ventures.
• Translate complex data insights into clear, actionable recommendations for executives.
• Lead ad hoc strategic projects requiring quantitative rigor and operational understanding.
• Partner with senior leadership to assess trade-offs and prioritize initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
• 2-4 years of experience in corporate development, strategy, consulting, investment banking, or analytics roles.
• Background in finance, consulting, corporate development, strategy, or analytics.
• Strong financial modeling and market analysis capability.
• Familiarity with data/BI tools; comfortable working with technical teams.
• Excellent communication; ability to distill complex data into executive insights.

• MBA or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Data Science, or a related field.
• Experience in autonomous vehicles/robotics/industrial tech.
• Hands-on with modern BI/analytics platforms.
• Prior corporate development or M&A transaction experience

• Stand up and lead the company-wide data-driven decision program.
• Define KPIs for every business unit and operationalize real-time tracking.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting that provide executive visibility.
• Improve data quality and integrity by collaborating on pipelines and processes.
• Enable teams through training on interpreting and applying data to execution.
• Develop market/competitive analyses and robust financial models for corp dev.
• Become the bridge between technical and business teams to turn insights into action.

• Company-wide KPIs defined and actively used in decisions.
• Executives have clear, real-time visibility into performance.
• Corporate development pipeline is organized, evaluated, and decision-ready.
• Strategic opportunities assessed with rigorous, data-backed models.
• You’re the go-to partner for operational metrics and strategic finance.

• Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA and FSA (Health & Dependent Daycare), Employee Assistance Program, 1:1 Health Concierge)
• Life, Short-term and long-term disability insurance (Cyngn funds 100% of premiums)
• Company 401(k)
• Commuter Benefits
• Flexible vacation policy
• Sabbatical leave opportunity after 5 years with the company
• Paid Parental Leave
• Daily lunches for in-office employees and fully-stocked kitchen with snacks and beverages
• Monthly meal and tech allowances for remote employees
• Allowance to purchase new headphones when you join!