Consulting AI Research Contributor

Aptura; Dubai; Remote; AED 134,000 - 267,000; Part time

Job summary

Aptura is seeking Subject Matter Experts from management or strategy consulting to build market sizing models in Excel. You will design tasks that test how well AI performs on real consultant work, drawing on your own experience to craft precise tasks.

This fully remote engagement runs for approximately 4–6 weeks, with weekly payments after task completion and start date immediate. You’ll work independently on flexible schedules.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in management, strategy or operations consulting in an industry or functional practice.
• Deep hands-on Excel: market sizing, competitive landscapes, goal seek, data reshaping and clear workbook structure.
• Strong written English communication skills.
• Attention to detail, and willingness to learn concepts in AI and Evals.

Responsibilities

• Writing realistic Excel tasks drawn from your own work: extending existing models, fixing broken ones and building from a brief.
• Working through each task yourself so there is a clear, correct answer.
• Writing yes-or-no criteria precise enough that a grader can mark any attempt against them.

Skills

Excel

Market sizing

Competitive landscapes

Data reshaping

Workbook structure

English writing

Job description

About The Role

Aptura is looking for Subject Matter Experts from management or strategy consulting, in an industry or functional practice, who build market sizing models, competitive landscapes and business cases in Excel. You have used AI tools on your own work and been frustrated by the mistakes they make. You will turn that experience into realistic Excel tasks that test how well AI does the work of a Consultant.

About The Role

Aptura is looking for Subject Matter Experts from management or strategy consulting, in an industry or functional practice, who build market sizing models, competitive landscapes and business cases in Excel. You have used AI tools on your own work and been frustrated by the mistakes they make. You will turn that experience into realistic Excel tasks that test how well AI does the work of a Consultant.

Responsibilities

• Writing realistic Excel tasks drawn from your own work: extending existing models, fixing broken ones and building from a brief
• Working through each task yourself so there is a clear, correct answer
• Writing yes-or-no criteria precise enough that a grader can mark any attempt against them

Necessary Qualifications

• 3+ years in management, strategy or operations consulting, in an industry practice (e.g. financial services, healthcare, TMT, consumer, energy, public sector) or a functional practice (strategy, operations, pricing, due diligence)
• Deep hands-on Excel: market sizing, competitive landscapes, goal seek, data reshaping and clear workbook structure
• Strong written English communication skills.
• Attention to detail, and willingness to learn concepts in AI and Evals

Additional Information

• Start Date : Immediate
• Duration: Approximately 4-6 weeks
• Payment: task-based. Experts who complete their first task within the required timeline will then be qualified to do multiple tasks for the remainder of the project.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Aptura will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments will be weekly following task completion.

About Aptura

Aptura is an applied AI and data company working with frontier labs to train AI systems on real professional work. We do this by building high-quality evaluation and training environments that teach AI agents to produce work that can be used in daily workflows.