“Come with me and change the world.”
Steve Jobs, recruiting John Sculley, 1983
You’ve spent years telling CMOs what to change. This is the seat where you change it.
Time to change the world, from New York
Our client is a well-funded, seed-stage AI startup in Manhattan. Its AI agents run performance marketing for consumer brands end to end, across Google, Meta, Amazon, TikTok and more. The founders are ex-Google: one built an ads product there from scratch into a major revenue line, the other shipped production AI at Google Research. High-growth consumer brands are already paying customers.
They want a management consultant as their first customer-facing hire. Not a marketer who can present. A consultant who understands digital performance, and who wants founder’s equity in the company that rewrites how ad budgets get spent.
Why a management consultant
Because the job is an engagement that never ends. You diagnose a brand’s growth problem, build the case, win the room and deliver the number. The difference is that AI agents do the execution, and you own the client and the outcome.
What you’ll own
- A portfolio of consumer brand accounts, as their lead adviser on paid media and growth
- The C-suite conversation: CMOs, CEOs and CFOs who want clear decisions from complex performance data
- The diagnosis. You open the Google, Meta and Amazon accounts, find the wasted spend and size the upside
- The translation between the AI and the customer: what the agents are doing, why, and what the product should do next
- The deployment function itself, built from zero, with a clear path to hiring and leading the team
Who this is for
- McKinsey, BCG or Bain on your resume. This is essential
- Digital performance in your background. Performance marketing, paid media or growth work at a consumer brand, an adtech company or the ads side of a major platform
- Fluent in the numbers. ROAS, CAC, CPA, conversion rate and incrementality are everyday language
- A builder with AI. You tinker with agents, Claude Code or automated workflows because you want to
- Executive presence. You can hold a CFO’s attention and a founder’s trust
A STEM degree, a top school and hands-on ad account experience are all strong plus points.
Who this isn’t for
- Consultants with no digital performance or ads exposure
- Marketers without the MBB training
- Anyone looking for hybrid or remote
The deal
- Up to $250K base
- Founder’s equity: a founding-level stake, on offer for the right person
- 401(k), medical, dental and vision
- Five days a week on-site in the Financial District, Manhattan. Relocation to New York is welcome
- US work authorization required. Visa transfers considered for exceptional candidates
Apply
Apply through the form on this page with your resume. Tell us which firm you trained at and where you learned digital performance.
