Consulting Partner — Field Services

QofAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

QofAI is seeking a Partner-level leader to own senior client relationships and commercial outcomes for private equity portfolios. You will sell, shape, and stand behind the results, working directly with deal partners, operating partners, and portfolio CEOs.

You will identify AI use cases that impact scheduling, productivity, pricing, and recurring revenue, and guide cross-functional teams to scale value across multiple acquisitions.

Qualifications

• Partner/Principal/Associate Partner experience at top-tier firms (McKinsey, Bain, BCG).
• Deep field services or roll-up experience with a feel for operator economics and route density.
• Proven business development track record: sold work, grew accounts, built relationships with senior buyers.

Responsibilities

• Own senior relationships with deal and operating partners at PE clients and portfolio CEOs.
• Set the AI value creation agenda for each account across diligence, 100 days, hold period and exit prep.
• Lead conversations on where AI moves EBITDA and how work is sequenced.
• Win and grow accounts with new portfolio companies and new stakeholders.
• Coordinate with engineering, data, and product teams to target high-impact problems.
• Coach teams to raise the standard of work and ownership on engagements.

Skills

Client relationship management

Strategic thinking

Executive presence

Business development

Travel willingness

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 multi-site field services businesses and how they makemoney one truck or one technician at a time.
• Find the AI use cases that matter in this model: scheduling and dispatch, technicianproductivity, call booking and conversion, pricing, membership and recurring revenue,and folding in newly acquired bolt-ons.
• Help CEOs running roll-ups standardize and scale without breaking what made eachacquisition work.
• 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 field services 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 field services or multi-site services expertise, ideally inside a roll-upor buy-and-build, with a feel for technician economics and route density.
• 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 field services.
• Operating experience inside a field services company, not just advising one.
• A network of senior field services 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.