Analyst 

This role is fully remote.

The Firm

A boutique growth strategy consulting firm with a unique engagement model. They help many of the world’s largest corporations (from IBM Global Services to Verizon Media to Raytheon) accelerate growth through activating innovation. But rather than doing so by staffing traditional consulting teams, they deliver growth through keynote speeches, community building, and the application of proprietary tools and other IP.

Their core activities include:

• Keynote speaking
• A peer network of chief strategy officers of large enterprises
• Facilitated growth consulting and training
• IP development including books, tools, workbooks, etc.

Their core values: smart enough to be humble, be a lifelong learner, be forward thinking, and have near-term impact.

The role

They seeking a unique individual to serve as an Analyst. This person will work closely with the founder to ensure the effective delivery of his keynote speeches, strategy facilitations, and consulting engagements.

Benefits

• Gain exposure to and build an understanding of a vast set of industries, from pharmaceuticals and biotech to banking and manufacturing to media and entertainment
• Full-time consulting contract (you will be an independent contractor, not an employee) with flexibility as to when and where to do your work
• Be part of dynamic, entrepreneurial team
• Learn the consulting, public speaking, and related businesses
• Have an impact (our engagements have generated over $2.5 billion in new annual revenue for clients to date and have helped numerous organizations launch innovations that have had broad social impact)

Responsibilities

• Engagement management: manage client projects with which Founder is involved including keynote speeches, facilitations, and longer-term strategy projects
• Research: conduct industry research, identifying key trends, industry dynamics, and emerging disruptors to customize keynotes and facilitations
• Client engagement: interface with clients, serving and Founder’s and the firm’s official key point of contact
• Co-facilitator: accompany Founder to speeches and facilitations throughout the US and occasionally internationally to co-deliver and support his facilitation of keynotes and strategy events
• Coordinator: support Founder with logistics, appointment setting, scheduling, travel bookings, and other similar activities
• Pre and post-work: capture notes during strategy sessions, analyze input, and create reports to feed back to clients
• Thought-partner and analyst: serve as a thought-partner with Founder and other members of the team, to identify new research ideas, gather data, conduct analyses, and help craft articles and presentations based on that analysis

Profile

The ideal candidate will:

• Have a bachelors degree or masters with a focus on business
• Be passionate about business strategy and innovation (e.g., enjoy reading books on the topics, interested in meeting and learning from leading strategy and innovation thinkers)
• Be a strong writer who also enjoys fact-based analytical work
• Consider themselves a lifelong learning and curious
• Be driven to have business and social impact
• Be entrepreneurial, comfortable with ambiguity, and flexible
• Be interested in joining a small, entrepreneurial team to build a business with impact

Salary

Guaranteed monthly fee, as an independent consultant, commensurate with your experience with the potential for upside based on your impact.