Culture Strategy Associate

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

401K matching

Educational assistance

Professional organization membership

Parental leave

PTO 20 days + 4 holidays

Connectivity reimbursement

Buddy onboarding

Job summary

Gapingvoid Culture Design Group is seeking an Associate Consultant to support and learn in transforming organizations into high-performing cultures. You’ll design experiences, artifacts, and insights that shift behavior in government and enterprise settings.

You’ll bridge clients, consultants, and creatives to keep projects moving, producing communications and cultural artifacts that spread new norms while learning across design, business, and social science.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
• 1-3 years of professional experience in a related role.
• Comfort working in ambiguity with a ‘get stuff done’ mindset.
• Deep curiosity about people, behavior, design, systems, and storytelling.
• Exceptional organization and attention to detail.
• Strong communication, clear and empathetic.
• Adaptability and poise in fast-moving environments.
• Emotional intelligence and presence in high-trust conversations.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with bias for action.
• Passion for the mission and complexity of the Department of War.
• Willingness to travel 1-2x per month (up to 30%).

Responsibilities

• Project Administration: You’ll support the operational side of projects by managing calendars, organizing files, tracking deliverables, and troubleshooting tools and systems.
• Client Communications: You’ll draft clear, jargon-free communications that ensure clients are informed, aligned, and engaged throughout every phase of a project.
• Event Planning & Coordination: From culture launches to high-level facilitation sessions, you’ll help orchestrate events that become turning points for client culture.
• Data Collection & Analysis: You’ll design and run surveys, interviews, and facilitation exercises that capture stakeholder insights and support system-level change.
• Experience Design & Facilitation Support: You’ll help design client engagements, support facilitators, and capture insights in real time.
• Presentation & Creative Development: You’ll shape decks, visual tools, and cultural artifacts to communicate ideas with clarity and impact.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Emotional intelligence

Storytelling

Ambiguity tolerance

Project coordination

Client communications

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

As an Associate Human-Centered Design Consultant at Gapingvoid Culture Design Group, you are an emerging culture strategist who wants to learn by doing. You will help turn research into insight and insight into experiences, communications, and systems clients can actually use.

Day to day, you will be a connector, maker, organizer, and learner. You will support interviews and workshops, build presentations and cultural artifacts, coordinate projects and live experiences, and make sure important details do not disappear.

This is a hands-on consulting role. You will work alongside Consultants and creatives, contribute to real client work, and build your judgment through practice and feedback. Early success comes from learning quickly, executing reliably, and becoming more independent with every project.

You do not need to know everything on day one. You do need curiosity, follow-through, thoughtful energy, and the instinct to ask, "What needs to happen next?"

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

PROJECT DELIVERY & CLIENT COORDINATION: You will organize timelines, files, materials, decisions, and follow-ups; anticipate roadblocks; and help keep multiple workstreams moving. The goal is not just tidy administration - it is creating the clarity the team needs to do excellent work.

RESEARCH & INSIGHT SUPPORT: You will support surveys, interviews, and discovery activities; organize qualitative and quantitative inputs; and help surface patterns, tensions, and stories that inform client recommendations.

EXPERIENCE DESIGN, FACILITATION & EVENTS:You will help design and deliver workshops, working sessions, offsites, launches, and other client experiences. You will prepare materials, support technology and participant needs, coordinate logistics, capture insight in real time, and learn to read and respond to the room.

PRESENTATION & CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT: You will help turn strategy and insight into polished decks, reports, visual tools, and cultural artifacts. You will work with Consultants and creatives to make complex ideas clear, useful, and memorable.

FROM IDEA TO ACTION: You will help take recommendations beyond the deck by building concrete tools, communications, rituals, and experiences that clients can use. You will learn how strong execution protects the strategy and moves the outcome forward.

BUILDING THE CONSULTING MUSCLE:You will ask thoughtful questions, seek and apply feedback, contribute ideas, and take on increasing ownership. Over time, you will move from supporting the work to independently driving defined pieces of it.

WHAT YOU BRING

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent work experience in human-centered design, research, service or experience design, project or program coordination, strategic communications, consulting, events, or production.
• 1-3 years of relevant professional experience. Internships, fellowships, and early-career roles count.
• Evidence that you learn quickly, follow through, and produce high-quality work.
• Exceptional organization, attention to detail, and the ability to keep multiple moving pieces aligned.
• Clear, empathetic, jargon-free communication and strong writing.
• Curiosity about people, behavior, design, systems, and storytelling.
• Good judgment about when to ask for help and when to dig in and figure it out.
• Adaptability, poise under pressure, emotional intelligence, and comfort with ambiguity.
• Genuine interest in the mission and complexity of Department of Defense work.
• Ability to travel 1-2 times per month, up to 30%.
• An A+ if you have helped produce workshops, offsites, launches, conferences, or other complex experiences. We value people who can see both the strategic purpose and the thousand details required to make it real.

ABOUT GAPINGVOID

We build human operating systems.

Gapingvoid exists to transform how organizations think, feel, and perform - from the inside out. We create Culture as a System (CaaS)™️: a behavioral programming discipline that treats culture like code. It debugs dysfunction, installs belief, and maintains performance - scalably, measurably, and under pressure.

Our team is a mix of culture designers, behavioral scientists, artists, storytellers, anthropologists, and learning strategists - united by a relentless pursuit of excellence and a bias for bold, meaningful change.

We Cut Through BS.

We Design Belief.

We Install Devotion.

Work sits at the bottom of most people's identity stack. Dead last. Beneath family, friends, hobbies - everything else that matters to them. We flip that script. Joining Gapingvoid means stepping into a fast-moving, emotionally intelligent environment where we care audibly, lead with clarity, and build systems that last. It’s intense. It’s meaningful. It’s transformative.

BENEFITS YOU CAN EXPECT

Alongside competitive pay, we provide a people-first benefits package that supports your health, growth, and sense of purpose. Here’s what we offer to full-time employees after a successful 90-day 1099 Contracting period.

Remote-first flexibility with core hours (Mon–Fri, 9–5 ET) and task-based autonomy

• 100% coverage of employee Vision and Dental insurance
• 80% coverage of employee basic Healthcare insurance

Financial Security & Development

• 401K matching: 100% match up to 4%, plus 50% match on the next 2%
• Educational assistance by approval
• Professional Organization Membership for 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-year reflection & restoration days and 6 paid Holidays
• Connectivity Reimbursement: $100/month max
• 5 Year Anniversary: 5 extra days PTO & $2,500 personal travel

Onboarding & Support

• Personal buddy system to ease your onboarding journey and beyond

*Detailed information available upon request

Please note: The first 90 days will be on a Contract-to-Hire basis (without the benefits listed above) to ensure we are a mutually good fit. The monthly range for this 1099 Contractor term is $5,415 - $7,085/mo., equivalent to the expected annual compensation ($65,000-85,000) when you become a Full-Time Employee with Benefits.

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.

We're excited to see your materials come through. Hit "Apply" to complete our Application form in Airtable. We truly appreciate your interest in Gapingvoid and your time spent on our application!