Artemis Connection is a strategic management consultancy working across the for-profit, public and social sectors. We help clients around the world identify their most pressing strategic issues and we staff teams of strategy consultants to roll up their sleeves and deliver impact. We are passionate about helping innovative and entrepreneurial leaders reach their goals through a customized project-based approach, typically focused around:

Bespoke Innovation, Sales, and Marketing Strategy
Purpose-driven Transformation
Embedded Strategy and Operations roles

Our founder is Christy Johnson, an entrepreneur, educator, and former McKinsey Engagement Manager. Our advisors include HR officers, executive coaches, academics, entrepreneurs, and neuroscientists. Our team is made up of seasoned consultants, trained at organizations such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bain, Big 4 Strategy, and elite educational institutions.

From the perspective of a potential employee, what makes Artemis Connection unique is the opportunity to combine this first-rate consulting experience with the flexibility that many other consulting firms don’t offer. In short, we’re a consulting firm for experienced top-tier consultants who still want to deliver exemplary value for clients but who need more flexibility in their professional and personal lives. Specifically, we’re flexible with where you want to work and how many hours you want to work – meaning no rigid expectations of being at the client every day, living in a certain city, or clocking in a full 50 hours (or more) each week. Instead, we work with you to understand what flexibility that you need to make consulting work for you. Currently, our team members are spread across the country, engaging with clients remotely (and occasionally on-site, as client needs dictate) and working varied hours (ranging from 10 hours/week to 55 hours/week). We offer market-rate compensation based on the outcomes that you deliver and the number of hours and weeks that you will be leading project work (plus bonuses for bringing in new clients). As a growing organization, we also offer employees the opportunity to be involved in some of the operations it takes to form and scale a company – a great experience if you’re considering starting your own company someday.

Internally, we prioritize flexibility, which is why we’ve always been a fully remote organization, offering both full-time and part-time options for our team members. Given this flexible structure, and given our small size, we tend to bring on new team members in a “trial-to-hire” capacity. In other words, we initially hire individuals as independent contractors for discrete client projects, and then, after successful project completion and mutual determination of “fit”, we move toward a more permanent employment arrangement.

To learn more about Artemis Connection, visit http://artemisconnection.com/.

Position overview

We’re looking for experienced strategy consultants to serve as Engagement Managers on our team. (This role is roughly equivalent to an Engagement Manager at McKinsey, a Project Leader at BCG, or a Case Team Leader at Bain, though we’re willing to structure the role to meet the experience level of the right person.)

Our ideal candidate has successfully led client engagement work at a top consulting firm and is looking to continue that work in the flexible consulting model that Artemis Connection provides. She/He is a strategic thinker, structured communicator, and excellent project manager who can navigate between managing client teams and more junior Artemis Connection staff members. (As such, we’re also open to candidates with in-house strategy/operations experience, if that experience has built this consulting “toolkit” of skills).

Responsibilities

The role of Engagement Managers is to own the entire life cycle of a consulting engagement, leading the day to day work, managing teams of 1-3, and managing client relationships.

Own end to end project delivery

Identify the client’s most pressing strategic issues, develop hypotheses to prove during client engagement, and communicate (then re-communicate) these issues/hypotheses to both clients and case team members as the case evolves
Create a work plan to diagnose and resolve the client’s strategic issues, including data-driven analyses, client engagements, and delivery of recommendations
Ensure all client deliverables are executed in a high-quality and timely way

Team Management

Manage teams of 1-3 associates, providing regular coaching and input on their workstreams
Lead the day-to-day work of team members (e.g., structuring their analyses, reviewing their deliverables, providing on-the-job coaching)

Manage client relationships

Build trustworthy, transparent, and collaborative relationships with senior executives and other key contacts at client organizations
Facilitate client engagement in case team work (e.g., identifying key issues to resolve or hypotheses to test, aligning on key deliverables in work plan, making decisions at key points during case, and transitioning end-of-case recommendations or implementation plan)
Identify opportunities for additional client work, either through follow-on work with existing clients or through potential engagements with new clients

Qualifications

Minimum 3 years Consulting experience, ideally from a top-tier firm (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain), though in-house strategy/operations experience also considered
Track record of coaching clients to measurable outcomes required
Track record of coaching case teams (or sideways managing / informally influencing others) to measurable outcomes also required
Demonstrated skills in project management required, ideally in a “case team” or “client service” type of environment
Demonstrated skills in effective communication, including ability to build senior client relationships and effective case team relationships, required
Commitment to producing high-quality, client-ready work, on tight timelines, required
Orientation toward being a proactive, curious team member
Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel required, in order to coach other team members on these tools
Bachelor's and/or Master's Degree preferred

This is a remote role with potential for some light travel required, as needed for client interactions.