Management Consultant (MBB) + Digital Performance: Time to Change the World | New York City (On-site) | Up to $250K + Founder’s Equity

"Come with me and change the world."Steve Jobs, recruiting John Sculley, 1983

You've spent years telling CMOs what to change. This is the seat where you change it.

Time to change the world, from New York

Our client is a well-funded, seed-stage AI startup in Manhattan. Its AI agents run performance marketing for consumer brands end to end, across Google, Meta, Amazon, TikTok and more. The founders are ex-Google: one built an ads product there from scratch into a major revenue line, the other shipped production AI at Google Research. High-growth consumer brands are already paying customers.

They want a management consultant as their first customer-facing hire. Not a marketer who can present. A consultant who understands digital performance, and who wants founder's equity in the company that rewrites how ad budgets get spent.

Why a management consultant

Because the job is an engagement that never ends. You diagnose a brand's growth problem, build the case, win the room and deliver the number. The difference is that AI agents do the execution, and you own the client and the outcome.

What you'll own

A portfolio of consumer brand accounts, as their lead adviser on paid media and growth

The C-suite conversation: CMOs, CEOs and CFOs who want clear decisions from complex performance data

The diagnosis. You open the Google, Meta and Amazon accounts, find the wasted spend and size the upside

The translation between the AI and the customer: what the agents are doing, why, and what the product should do next

The deployment function itself, built from zero, with a clear path to hiring and leading the team

Who this is for

McKinsey, BCG or Bain on your resume. This is essential

Digital performance in your background. Performance marketing, paid media or growth work at a consumer brand, an adtech company or the ads side of a major platform

Fluent in the numbers. ROAS, CAC, CPA, conversion rate and incrementality are everyday language

A builder with AI. You tinker with agents, Claude Code or automated workflows because you want to

Executive presence. You can hold a CFO's attention and a founder's trust

A STEM degree, a top school and hands-on ad account experience are all strong plus points.

Who this isn't for

Consultants with no digital performance or ads exposure

Marketers without the MBB training

Anyone looking for hybrid or remote

The deal

Up to $250K base

Founder's equity: a founding-level stake, on offer for the right person

401(k), medical, dental and vision

Five days a week on-site in the Financial District, Manhattan. Relocation to New York is welcome

US work authorization required. Visa transfers considered for exceptional candidates

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Apply through the form on this page with your resume. Tell us which firm you trained at and where you learned digital performance.