Remote Consulting Principal — Living-Centered Growth

CannonDesign; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible spending accounts

Remote work options

401(k) plan

Employee perk programs

Paid time off

Flex-time schedules

Job summary

CannonDesign is seeking a consulting leader to grow the Cityfi practice across the US, Canada, and Europe, guiding strategy, delivery, and growth while advancing the firm’s Living-Centered Design approach.

The role partners with executive leadership to secure and deliver work, build capacity, and evolve the Cityfi brand within CannonDesign’s platform, emphasizing human-centered design and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• Proven history of successful leadership roles in private and public sectors, including strong reputation in mobility & civic innovation.
• Experience in top tier consulting, planning, operations, or development.
• Experience managing talent development functions, including building teams and developing talent pipelines.
• Experience developing a global multi-disciplinary consulting practice, including operational integration across many branded services.
• Public and private-sector advisory experience in business strategy, experience, planning, placemaking, mobility, and urban planning.
• Ability to manage multiple corporate priorities and several client projects, while growing a new service line across broad geographic area.
• Bachelor’s degree required, master’s or advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize securing and delivering work aligned with Cityfi’s ambitions.
• Identify market opportunities with consulting leaders across all brands, create a sustainable plan for Cityfi US, Canada, and EU, define investment, develop business planning materials and pro-forma and manage toward 10% YoY growth in NSF and revenue, while achieving a minimum 25% profitability.
• Continuously refine the Cityfi growth strategy in response to evolving market opportunities and challenges.
• Establish the operating platform to enable successful client delivery in consulting including strategy, experience, technology, mobility, health, commercial, student housing, smart cities, future economies, and civic innovation.
• Monitor, report, and facilitate achievement of growth KPIs across the Cityfi practice.
• Recruit and develop talent to scale our network and opportunities.
• Infuse Living-Centered Design principles by collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to co-create purposeful, user-centered solutions that enhance goals of the private and public partners or clients with whom you work.
• Identify, establish and nurture meaningful, long-term relationships with clients and internal partners through excellence, integrity, and reliability and in a way that grows the consulting practice and elevates the brand, while making measurable, living-centered impact.
• Build on our living-centered design mindset and capabilities as a firm, allowing our approach to problem solving to be deeply embedded in human-centered strategies that reflect community impact, social impact, operational needs and financial parameters.

Job description

CannonDesign is seeking a consulting leader to grow the Cityfi practice across the US, Canada, and Europe, guiding strategy, delivery, and growth while advancing the firm’s Living-Centered Design approach.

The role partners with executive leadership to secure and deliver work, build capacity, and evolve the Cityfi brand within CannonDesign’s platform, emphasizing human-centered design and measurable impact.