Founding Deployment Strategist: MBB + Digital Ads (Google, Meta, Amazon, TikTok) | New York City (On-site) | Up to $250K + Founding Equity

Ex-McKinsey, BCG or Bain? Moved into digital ads? This is the role that wants both.

Most companies make you choose between your consulting brain and your ads experience. This one hired us to find someone who has both.

Our client is a well-funded, seed-stage AI startup in New York building an agentic performance marketing platform for consumer brands. Its AI agents run paid campaigns end to end across Google, Meta, Amazon, TikTok and more. The founders are ex-Google: one built and scaled an AI ads product at Google, the other launched production AI at Google Research. High-growth consumer brands are already paying customers.

They now need their first customer-facing strategist: someone who can run a CMO meeting like an MBB engagement manager and audit an ad account like a performance marketer.

Up to USD $250K base + founding equity. 5 days on-site, Financial District, Manhattan.

What you'll do

Own a portfolio of consumer brand accounts and become their trusted adviser on paid media

Present performance to CMOs, CEOs and CFOs, turning complex ad data into clear decisions

Dig into Google, Meta and Amazon ad accounts: audit them, find wasted spend and spot growth opportunities

Explain what the AI is doing and why, and feed what you learn from customers back into the product

Build the deployment function from scratch, with a clear path to hiring and leading a team

What you'll bring

MBB consulting experience (McKinsey, BCG or Bain). This is essential.

Digital ads experience: performance marketing, paid media, growth or ads-adjacent work, ideally at a high-growth consumer brand, an adtech company or the ads side of a major platform

Comfort with the metrics: ROAS, CAC, CPA, CTR, conversion rate and incrementality

Hands-on ad account experience is a strong plus

Curiosity about AI. Bonus points if you build with it (Claude Code, agents, automated workflows).

The package

Up to $250K base

A strong founding equity package

401(k), medical, dental and vision

5 days a week on-site in the Financial District, Manhattan (relocation to NYC is welcome)

US work authorization required; visa transfers considered for exceptional candidates

Why this role

You'd be the first customer-facing hire at an AI company reshaping a multi-billion-dollar ad market

It uses your full skill set: consulting rigour, executive presence and real ads depth

You'd work directly with ex-Google founders and shape both the product and the function

MBB plus digital ads is a rare combination. If you have it, apply now. If you know someone who does, send this their way.