Strategy & Operations Co-op

About the role

Canada Rocket Company is building sovereign launch capability for Canada. As our first Strategy & Operations Co-op, you will work directly with the Chief Financial Officer across finance, strategy, technology, and business operations — the four functions that determine how fast the engineering team can move.

This is not a shadowing placement. Much of what you will build does not exist yet, and it will be used.

What you'll do

Finance

Support the development of the enterprise financial model — driver-based, and used to allocate capital
Run the financial planning and analysis cycle: budget versus actual by program, variance analysis, forecast updates
Support capital planning and project controls across facility, test, and long-lead hardware programs

Strategy

Size the addressable market and build the capture and revenue models behind it
Support proposals, grant submissions, and go-to-market strategy
Build build-versus-buy analyses and product lifecycle techno-economic models

Technology & Business Operations

Help deploy AI-native business processes across the company — pathfinding new ways of working that make every person here measurably more effective
Design and build agentic workflows that carry real work end to end, connect the systems and data they run on, and scale what proves out from one team to the whole company
Run program and project management for commercial initiatives, establish the business rhythms that keep them moving, and build the procurement processes behind supply chain resilience

Qualifications

Required

Enrolled in a co-op or internship program at the undergraduate level or above, in business, commerce, economics, business technology management, or engineering
At least one prior completed internship or co-op work term. This role is not suited to a first work term
Fluency with economic and financial modeling principles, and the ability to apply them to produce work products quickly — in Excel and/or AI-assisted, structured code-based models such as Python. Prior coding ability is not required
Systems thinking: the ability to see how processes, data, and decisions connect across an organization rather than treating them in isolation
Working understanding of data structures and database architectures, and how business systems store, relate, and exchange information
Fluent with AI tools, and able to apply them to redesign how work is done rather than only to accelerate existing tasks
Rigour and accuracy in work carrying financial, contractual, and external consequence, combined with the ability to work independently where established process does not yet exist

Nice To Have

Enrolled at the graduate level — MBA, MFin, MSc, or equivalent
Coursework or experience in financial modeling, techno-economic analysis, corporate finance, or procurement
Demonstrated experience building with AI: agents, automations, or end-to-end workflows
Interest in aerospace or defence. No space-industry experience required