Digital Strategy Associate Consultant

L.E.K. Consulting; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical insurance

401(k) with employer contribution

Paid time off

Job summary

L.E.K. Consulting in Boston seeks an Associate Consultant to join its Digital practice and tackle strategic, digital, and AI challenges for leading clients.

You will rapidly take on responsibilities on each case team, gathering and synthesizing research, and delivering client-ready outputs. Responsibilities include framing problems, conducting primary/secondary research, prototyping AI solutions, and owning end-to-end workstreams while coaching junior colleagues and embedding with clients to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier institution with a record of academic excellence.
• 3–4 years of full-time, post-undergraduate professional experience in strategy consulting, digital / AI product roles, software or data engineering, or a similar mixed environment.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and structure ambiguous problems.
• Hands-on proficiency with modern AI tooling including agent frameworks, prompt design, evals, retrieval-augmented systems and working fluency in at least one production-grade language (Python preferred).
• Fluency with the contemporary data and AI architecture stack, modern data warehouses, vector stores, orchestration frameworks, and the broader vendor landscape and the judgment to navigate buy-vs-build choices.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication, equally credible presenting to a CIO and demoing working software to its end users.
• The judgment to know when a problem is better answered with strategic framing than with code, and vice versa and the range to deliver either.
• Proven leadership and initiative; comfort embedding with clients in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Ability to integrate digital and AI thinking into traditional strategy casework and contribute to the growth of the Digital practice.

Responsibilities

• Framing ambiguous client problems and designing the analytical or technical approach to solve them.
• Researching and synthesizing — running primary and secondary research and converting findings into actionable recommendations and strategic narratives.
• Prototyping and deploying digital and AI solutions — including agents, data products, evaluation harnesses, and lightweight internal tools — that move clients from strategy to execution.
• Choosing deliberately when a question is best answered with a deck, a working prototype, or both — and being able to deliver either.
• Owning workstreams end-to-end, from problem definition through client-ready output, with accountability for both quality and pace.
• Embedding with clients in the field, iterating solutions with end users, and driving adoption alongside the strategy.
• Coaching junior team members across analytical and technical work, building capability across the case team.
• Communicating findings — written, verbal, and demonstrable — with the clarity and conviction expected of a senior client advisor.

Skills

Strategy consulting

Digital AI

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree (top-tier)

Tools

Python

Agent frameworks

Job description

L.E.K. Consulting in Boston seeks an Associate Consultant to join its Digital practice and tackle strategic, digital, and AI challenges for leading clients.

You will rapidly take on responsibilities on each case team, gathering and synthesizing research, and delivering client-ready outputs. Responsibilities include framing problems, conducting primary/secondary research, prototyping AI solutions, and owning end-to-end workstreams while coaching junior colleagues and embedding with clients to