Associate Consultant

Gapingvoid Culture Design Group; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vision & Dental insurance 100%

Healthcare insurance 80%

PTO 20 days + holidays

5 Year Anniversary PTO & travel

Remote work

Job summary

Gapingvoid Culture Design Group seeks an Associate Culture Design Consultant to turn human insight into work clients can experience. You will support research, synthesis, communications, presentations, workshops, events, and coordination to keep complex work moving.

You’ll analyze interviews, develop client narratives, and contribute ideas, while drafting communications and coordinating logistics. This hands-on learning role grows toward owning more complex work over time.

Qualifications

• Curiosity about people, behavior, design, and organizations.
• Emerging fluency in research, synthesis, storytelling, or design thinking.
• Clear writing and the ability to turn information into useful communications, presentations, and materials.

Responsibilities

• Discovery, research & insight support: capture what matters and identify patterns.
• Project delivery & coordination: track timelines, decisions, dependencies, materials, revisions and follow-ups.
• Communications & narrative development: draft, edit and organize client communications and reports.
• Workshop, experience & event delivery: plan and deliver workshops, offsites, launches and client experiences.
• Creative & production partnership: gather content, coordinate reviews and ensure quality through handoffs.
• Client & stakeholder support: prepare meetings, capture decisions, and build trust through preparation.

Skills

Curiosity about people

Research fluency

Storytelling

Organization

Workshop planning

Concept to execution

Ask for help early

Learning new tools

Care & resilience

Travel readiness

Job description

A Gapingvoid Associate Culture Design Consultant helps turn human insight and strategy into work clients can experience. You will support research, synthesis, communications, presentations, workshops, events, and the coordination that keeps complex work moving.

Some days, you will help analyze interviews, develop a client narrative, or contribute to a new idea. Others, you will draft communications, build a run of show, coordinate travel and materials, prepare a room, or track the details behind a major client experience. Both are the work.

This is a hands-on learning role. You will work alongside Consultants and Creative, contribute ideas, ask thoughtful questions, and build judgment by seeing strategy through execution. As you grow, you will own increasingly complex pieces of the work.

Your impact is in making the thinking stronger and the delivery dependable. You help ensure great ideas survive contact with reality.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

DISCOVERY, RESEARCH & INSIGHT SUPPORT. Support interviews, surveys, observation, desk research, and data organization. Capture what matters, help identify patterns and tensions, and contribute to clear, useful insights.

PROJECT DELIVERY & COORDINATION. Track timelines, decisions, dependencies, materials, revisions, and follow-ups. Anticipate what is needed, surface risks early, and help multiple workstreams keep moving.

COMMUNICATIONS & NARRATIVE DEVELOPMENT. Draft, edit, and organize client communications, presentations, reports, invitations, toolkits, schedules, and follow-ups. Help turn complex thinking into language people can understand and use.

WORKSHOP, EXPERIENCE & EVENT DELIVERY. Help plan and deliver workshops, Masterclasses, offsites, launches, Culture Walls, and other client experiences. Build runs of show, coordinate participants, travel, venues, vendors, materials, and technology—and help execute onsite.

CREATIVE & PRODUCTION PARTNERSHIP. Gather content, develop briefs, coordinate reviews, manage revisions, and partner with Creative to make the thinking visible. Protect quality through every handoff.

CLIENT & STAKEHOLDER SUPPORT. Prepare meetings, capture decisions, respond thoughtfully, and help clients feel supported. Learn to read the room, anticipate needs, and build trust through preparation and follow-through.

BUILDING THE CONSULTING MUSCLE. Ask thoughtful questions, contribute to synthesis and recommendations, and learn how culture strategy becomes something people can experience. Over time, you will move from supporting defined pieces to owning them.

WHAT YOU BRING

You may be early in your career, with experience in design, research, human behavior, communications, events, production, client service, or an adjacent field. What matters more than a particular degree is how you think, learn, communicate, and follow through.

• Curiosity about people, behavior, design, and organizations.
• Emerging fluency in research, synthesis, storytelling, or design thinking.
• Clear writing and the ability to turn information into useful communications, presentations, and materials.
• Strong organizational instincts across timelines, details, follow-ups, and moving pieces.
• Experience planning or supporting workshops, events, programs, or other complex experiences.
• Comfort moving between conceptual thinking and practical execution.
• The judgment to ask for help early, flag risks, and keep others informed.
• The ability to learn new tools, systems, and subject matter quickly.
• Care, resilience, and a willingness to handle the unglamorous work well.
• Availability to travel up to 30%, including occasional multi-day programs.

ABOUT GAPINGVOID We build human operating systems.

For nearly 20 years, Gapingvoid has designed Culture as a System® across the public and private sectors. Culture is not the softer layer around the work. It is the beliefs, language, behaviors, rituals, and signals that shape performance and determine whether strategy becomes real. We make it designable.

We believe work should be an inspiring mission: something that teaches, tests, and transforms us. We give leaders tools to turn employees into believers and help people reach more of their potential.

We are an entrepreneurial firm building the methods, tools, and discipline to make Culture Design® a serious management system.

We Cut Through BS. We Design Belief. We Install Devotion. We are Never Sedated. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

All Associate Consultants begin with a 90-day independent contractor engagement. It gives you and Gapingvoid the opportunity to work together, experience the role, and determine mutual fit. The contractor period does not include employee benefits.

At the end of 90 days, we’ll review performance, role fit, and business needs. If both sides choose to continue, you may receive an offer to convert to full-time employment. Employee benefits are available only after conversion, subject to plan eligibility and effective dates.

Compensation

The monthly range for the 90-day 1099 Independent Contractor term is $5,415 - $7,085/mo., equivalent to the expected annual compensation of $65,000-85,000 when you become a Full-Time Employee with Benefits.

Work Structure

• Fully remote; your home address is your official work location
• Core collaboration is Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. ET, with flexibility for clients and travel
• Must be U.S.-based and eligible for CAC access
• Travel up to 30% for client meetings, company gatherings, and multi-day programs
• 100% coverage of employee Vision and Dental insurance
• 80% coverage of employee basic Healthcare insurance

Financial Security & Development

• 401(k) matching: 100% match up to 4%, 50% match on the next 2%
• Educational assistance by approval
• Membership in relevant professional organizations

Work-Life Integration

• Parental Leave: Up to 12 weeks paid leave after one year of employment
• PTO: 20 days per year, plus 4 end-of-year reflection & restoration days and 6 paid Holidays
• Connectivity Reimbursement: $100/month max
• Five Year Anniversary: Five additional days PTO & $2,500 for personal travel

Onboarding & Support

• Personal buddy system to ease your onboarding journey and beyond

*Detailed benefits information is available upon request

Hiring Timing

We anticipate bringing this role onboard as upcoming client engagements begin over the coming months. While the exact start date may vary based on project timing, this posting represents a planned hire for our consulting team. We are reviewing applications and interviewing candidates now, so we're ready to move quickly as projects launch.