Consulting Partner — Industrials

QofAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

QofAI is seeking a Partner-level leader to own senior relationships with private equity clients and drive EBITDA impact across a portfolio of engagements. You will sell, shape, and stand behind outcomes, collaborating with deal partners, operating partners, and portfolio company CEOs to define and execute the AI value creation agenda.

You will work directly with co-founders, lead strategic conversations, and travel as needed to client sites, building trust and delivering measurable results

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in top-tier consulting firms or equivalent
• Demonstrated track record in selling work, owning relationships with senior buyers, and growing accounts
• Ability to set AI value creation agenda for industrials and operate across PE and portfolio company leadership

Responsibilities

• Own senior relationships with deal partners and operating partners at private equity clients
• Lead the AI value creation agenda from diligence through hold-period execution and exit preparation
• Coordinate with portfolio company CEOs and leadership teams to drive EBITDA impact
• Shape and sell consulting and engineering work, ensuring delivery against commitments
• Travel to client sites as needed and manage multiple accounts end-to-end

Skills

Business development

Client relationship management

Strategic thinking

Communication

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 manufacturing, distribution, and capital equipmentbusinesses, from the plant floor to the aftermarket service line.
• Find the AI use cases that move an industrial P&L: procurement and sourcing,production scheduling, quality and yield, maintenance, pricing, and sales coverage.
• Talk shop with plant managers and COOs as easily as with the CEO, and know thedifference between a slide and something that survives contact with the shop floor.
• 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 industrials 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 industrials expertise across manufacturing, distribution, or capitalgoods, including hands-on time with operations and supply chain.
• 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 industrials.
• Operating experience inside an industrials company, not just advising one.
• A network of senior industrials 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.