Senior Associate, Leadership Practice

Role : Senior Associate

Locations: New York City, Boston, Chicago, Houston

Position Summary

The Senior Associate is a critical delivery leader within Pearl Meyer’s Leadership Practice, owning assigned projects and/or multiple or interdependent workstreams. In all cases, the results are integrated into fully formed, client-ready work products. Senior Associates anticipate issues, shape storylines and recommendations, direct and review junior team members’ work, and deliver output requiring limited senior-level iteration. While not accountable for the engagement overall, the Senior Associate is central to delivery excellence and contributes through increasing client influence, subject-matter depth, business development, and collaboration across the Leadership Practice and more widely across Pearl Meyer.

Key Responsibilities

• Own projects, interdependent workstreams, or a significant portion of a large engagement, and integrate results into a coherent client-ready answer.

• Produce fully formed, client-ready work product with limited senior iteration and exceptional standards for rigor, accuracy, storyline, judgment, and usefulness.

• Anticipate engagement-level issues, propose solutions, and escalate with judgment; help shape the workplan, storyline, and recommendations with more senior consultants.

• Build trusted relationships with project-level and increasingly senior client stakeholders; lead substantive portions of client meetings and increasingly influence client thinking and action.

• Direct and review junior team members’ work, ensuring quality, pace, effective handoffs, and timely feedback while building others’ capabilities.

• When assigned alongside Client Success Team members, work collaboratively to ensure all facets of client delivery are see as exemplary in the eyes of the client.

• Deepen selected solution, functional, or sector expertise and apply it independently in client work; synthesize market and firm knowledge into useful insights.

• Contribute substantively to proposals, pitches, account planning, and opportunity development; connect relevant capabilities across Leadership and Executive Compensation and take ownership of defined Practice or firm initiatives.

Key Competencies

• Exceptional delivery standards, attention to detail, and commitment to fully formed work product.

• Structured problem solving, synthesis, and ability to integrate multiple workstreams into a coherent answer.

• Sound judgment, proactive issue resolution, and anticipation of engagement-level needs and risks.

• Clear, compelling written and verbal skills with increasing client influence.

• Team coordination, quality review, coaching, and constructive feedback.

• Developing subject-matter depth, curiosity, and strong learning agility.

• Professionalism, integrity, confidentiality, collaboration, and an enterprise mindset

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to own and integrate multiple workstreams or significant portions of an engagement and deliver fully formed, client-ready work product with limited senior iteration.

• Strong analytical, synthesis, written, verbal, and presentation skills, including shaping storylines and recommendations and engaging in substantive client discussions.

• Ability to anticipate issues, exercise sound judgment, review junior colleagues’ work, and demonstrate growing subject-matter depth and commercial awareness.

• Flexibility to pivot attention to more pressing client needs, as directed.

Compensation

The base salary compensation range being offered for this role is $100,000– $125,000 USD per year. This role is also eligible for an annual short-term incentive bonus.

Company Benefits

We provide a competitive benefit package which includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical (including prescription coverage), Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Commuter Account, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Group Accident, Group Critical Illness, Life Insurance, AD&D, Group Legal, Identify Theft Protection, Wellbeing Program and Work/Life Resources (including Employee Assistance Program)
• Leave Benefits: Paid Holidays, Annual Paid Time Off (includes paid state/local paid leave where required), Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves (e.g., Bereavement, FMLA, ADA, Jury Duty, Military Leave, and Parental and Adoption Leave), Paid Time Off
• Retirement Benefits: Savings Plan (401k).