Consulting Partner — Consumer

QofAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

QofAI seeks a Partner-level executive to own senior relationships and the commercial outcomes for a set of private equity clients. You will work directly with deal partners and operating partners, shaping the engagement and standing behind the result.

You will drive the AI value creation agenda across diligence, hold-period execution, and exit preparation, guiding cross-functional teams toward EBITDA impact for portfolio companies.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience.
• Experience as Partner/Principal/Associate Partner at McKinsey, Bain, or BCG.
• Deep consumer expertise across CPG, retail, or direct-to-consumer.
• Strong track record of business development and growing accounts.

Responsibilities

• Own senior relationships with deal partners and operating partners.
• Set the AI value creation agenda for each account from diligence to hold-period execution.
• Lead conversations with portfolio CEOs and leadership teams to drive EBITDA impact.
• Direct QofAI's engineering, data, and product teams toward high-impact problems.
• Coach teams and raise the quality and timeliness of deliverables.

Skills

Partner level experience

Business development

Relationship management

Leadership

Job description

QofAI brings elite consulting and forward-deployed engineering to the middlemarket — turning artificial intelligence into measurable EBITDA growth acrossevery deal, portfolio, and business. We sit where strategy meets software: workingalongside investors and operators, finding where AI moves the numbers, and thenbuilding the systems that get it there.

That means the work here stays close to the outcome. You sit with the investors andoperators making the decisions, and you get to watch your recommendations land inreal companies.

The role

This is a Partner-level role. You own the senior relationship and the commercialoutcome for a set of private equity clients, working directly with deal partners andoperating partners on one side and portfolio company CEOs and their leadership teamson the other. You sell the work, shape it, and stand behind the result. You workdirectly with the co-founders.

• Bring a working knowledge of consumer and retail businesses across CPG,direct-to-consumer, e-commerce, and brick and mortar.
• Find the AI use cases that move consumer economics: demand forecasting, pricing andpromotion, assortment and category management, customer acquisition and retention,and supply chain.
• Talk credibly with CMOs and commercial leaders about brand, channel, and margin, andkeep the work honest about what actually shifts sell-through.
• Own the senior relationship with deal partners and operating partners at our PEclients, and become the trusted advisor to portfolio company CEOs and theirleadership teams.
• Set the AI value creation agenda for each account, from diligence and the firsthundred days through hold-period execution and exit preparation.
• Lead the conversations that decide where AI actually moves EBITDA, what getsprioritized, and how the work gets sequenced.
• Win and grow accounts: new portfolio companies, new mandates, and new stakeholders.
• Point QofAI's engineering, data, and product teams at the right problems, and holdthe bar on quality and timelines.
• Coach the people on your engagements and raise the standard of the work.

What we're looking for

This is a Partner-level hire. We want someone who has carried a book of business anddelivered at the top of a tier-one firm, and who knows consumer cold. We'relooking for people with 10 or more years of professional experience who:

• Have Partner, Principal, or Associate Partner experience at McKinsey, Bain, or BCG.
• Bring deep consumer expertise across CPG, retail, or direct-to-consumer, with commandof pricing, marketing, or category economics.
• Bring a real business development track record. You have sold work, ownedrelationships with senior buyers, and grown accounts, not just delivered someoneelse's sale.
• Are comfortable sitting across from PE deal partners and operating partners on oneside and portfolio company CEOs on the other.
• Have a clear record of impact and senior client trust.
• Think in structure and communicate plainly, whether running a CEO working session orwriting a one-pager a deal partner will actually use.
• Operate with high ownership in ambiguous, fast-moving situations. You set the agendarather than wait for one.
• Work where you want, but are ready to travel to client sites as needed.

Nice to have

• Demonstrated curiosity with AI tools, and a point of view on where they earn theirkeep in consumer.
• Operating experience inside a consumer company, not just advising one.
• A network of senior consumer operators and buyers you can call.

Location & compensation

This role is open remote and from any of our three HQs — the San Francisco BayArea, Pittsburgh, and Austin — with travel to client sites as the workdemands. We offer competitive compensation and the kind of ownership that’s hard tofind: senior relationships and commercial outcomes you own end-to-end.