Security & Resiliency Initiative (SRI) Solutions - Associate

Join a dynamic team at J.P. Morgan where you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering innovative solutions and driving impactful results for our clients. As part of our collaborative and high-performing environment, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while making a difference in the industry.

Job Summary

The Associate of SRI Solutions will play a critical role within JPMorgan Chase’s ambitious Security and Resiliency Initiative (SRI), a decade-long, $1.5 trillion effort to strengthen industries essential to national economic security and resiliency. In this role, you will serve as part of a high-impact, cross-functional “SWAT team” focused on strengthening supply chain resilience across strategically vital sectors. This role will work directly with JPMorgan clients, government partners, and internal stakeholders to identify vulnerabilities, prioritize investment and financing opportunities, and design innovative solutions to address critical supply chain choke points.

The Associate will combine deep analytical rigor with strategic judgment and execution capability—translating complex market, policy, and financial dynamics into actionable investment strategies that drive resilience, economic growth, and job creation.

Job Responsibilities

Strategic Analysis & Insight

• Conduct market, industry, and financial analysis to identify structural risks and vulnerabilities across critical supply chains, including advanced manufacturing, defense and aerospace, energy, and emerging and strategic technologies
• Assess geopolitical, regulatory, technological, and market trends impacting supply chain security and resiliency.
• Identify priority intervention points where capital, financing, or policy alignment can materially reduce risk or unlock growth.

Investment & Project Evaluation

• Evaluate projects, companies, and technologies for commercial viability, scalability, and potential impact on supply chain resilience.
• Develop investment theses and business cases, including financial modeling and impact assessment 
• Support diligence efforts and risk assessment for complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with JPMorgan clients to understand supply chain pain points and develop tailored financing and advisory solutions.
• Engage with federal, state, and local government entities, industry partners, investors, and other ecosystem stakeholders to align capital, policy, and execution.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner to senior client and stakeholder leadership.

Deal Structuring & Execution

• Identify and design innovative deal structures that enable public-private investment, blended finance, and risk-sharing across government and private sector participants.
• Partner with internal JPMorgan teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Support origination and execution of financing, investment, and advisory transactions tied to resilience outcomes.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• 3+ years of relevant experience in investment banking, management consulting, private equity, project finance, or a related field.
• Strong financial analysis and modeling skills, with experience evaluating complex investment opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguous, cross-sector environments involving government and private-sector stakeholders.
• Proven track record of working directly with senior clients and decision-makers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex issues for diverse audiences.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Demonstrated track record of excellence within investment banking 
• Industry expertise in one or more relevant sectors (e.g., defense, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, energy, healthcare, critical infrastructure, and/or technology).
• Experience with public-private partnerships, government programs, or policy-adjacent investment initiatives.
• Familiarity with supply chain dynamics, industrial policy, or national security-related economic issues.
• Experience working within large, matrixed organizations.

Attributes for Success

• Strategic, systems-level thinker with strong execution discipline
• Comfortable acting as a connector across finance, policy, and industry
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the credibility to operate at senior levels
• High integrity, sound judgment, and commitment to JPMorgan Chase values