Consulting Partner — Professional Services

QofAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 250.000 - 350.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

QofAI in the United States seeks a Partner-level executive responsible for owning senior relationships with private equity clients, selling and shaping AI-enabled value across deals, portfolios, and leadership teams.

You will guide engagements with deal partners and operating partners, set the AI value creation agenda, and ensure delivery excellence. Travel to client sites will be required as work demands, with a remote-first setup and HQs in the SF Bay Area, Pittsburgh, and Austin.

Qualifikationen

• Have Partner, Principal, or Associate Partner experience at McKinsey, Bain, or BCG.
• 10+ years of professional experience in a top-tier professional services environment.
• Deep professional services expertise, with command of project economics, utilization, and talent.
• Clear business development track record, with ownership of senior buyer relationships.

Aufgaben

• Own the senior relationships with deal partners and operating partners at PE clients and become the trusted advisor to portfolio company CEOs and leadership teams.
• Set the AI value creation agenda for each account from due diligence to hold-period execution and exit preparation.
• Lead conversations about where AI moves EBITDA, prioritization, and sequencing of work.
• Win and grow accounts: acquire new portfolio companies, new mandates, and new stakeholders.
• Direct QofAI's engineering, data, and product teams toward the right problems and maintain quality and timelines.
• Coach teams on engagements and raise the standard of the work.
• Travel to client sites as needed and work across locations with flexibility.

Jobbeschreibung

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 people-based businesses: accounting, legal, engineering,staffing, agencies, and consulting itself.
• Find the AI use cases that move a services P&L: utilization, billing and realization,talent acquisition and retention, proposal and delivery work, and back officeautomation.
• Help managing partners and CEOs think through what AI does to leverage models,pricing, and the value of the billable hour.
• 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 and delivered at the top of a tier-one firm, and who knows professional services cold.We're looking 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 professional services expertise, with command of project economics,utilization, and talent.
• 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 professional services.
• Operating experience inside a professional services company, not just advising one.
• A network of senior professional 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.