About the role
Most companies know AI will change how they work. Few know where to start, or which investments are worth making.
As an Associate Principal, you help leadership teams answer that question and make sure the answer becomes real work. You’ll see inside several businesses each quarter and build pattern recognition that compounds across every engagement.
What you’ll do
Run transformation engagements. Map how a business works, find where AI creates value or risk, and set a prioritized agenda leadership can act on.
Build the business case. Evaluate use cases, size the opportunity, and give clients a clear view of cost, effort, and return.
Connect strategy to delivery. Work with our Creation teams so the plan turns into products, not slides.
Grow relationships. Join client conversations, shape proposals, and learn how we scope and structure engagements.
Contribute beyond the engagement. Help with thought leadership, internal tooling, and the venture ideas that come out of Discovery.
What you bring
Strategic range. A background in strategy, consulting, or an operating role where you shaped decisions.
Fast learning. You ramp quickly on an unfamiliar industry and form a point of view you can defend.
AI fluency. You understand what generative AI can and can’t do, and you’re credible in a room with engineers.
Client energy. You enjoy building trust with executives and are energized by client-facing work.
Doer and strategist. Low ego, high resourcefulness. You’ll build the deck and run the workshop.
Your first 90 days
You’ve contributed to several engagements and moved from support to leading key workstreams.
You’re running executive interviews and shaping deliverables on your own.
You’ve joined live client conversations and helped shape at least one proposal.
How we work
Small teams own whole problems. We share risk with the ventures we build and carry what we learn from one into the next. Read our manifesto to see what we believe.