Engagement Lead - Consulting Director

ASI Government • Fort Meade, MD

5h

About The Position

ASI Government is hiring an Engagement Lead (Director) to lead a complex Department of War client engagement. The role is accountable for navigating ambiguous client situations, advising senior leaders, identifying how ASI can address client needs, and translating strategy into disciplined execution and executive-quality deliverables. The Engagement Lead owns consulting rigor across the integrated workplan, team performance, quality, partner coordination, and account growth.

The role begins as a hands-on individual contributor or leader of a lean team. The successful candidate will define project vision and strategy while personally structuring analyses, developing and editing PowerPoint and Excel deliverables, leading client meetings, and resolving day-to-day delivery issues. The Engagement Lead partners closely with another ASI Engagement Lead, combining consulting expertise and delivery discipline with government experience, client relationships, institutional knowledge, and subject-matter expertise.

Travel is throughout the United States, with periods of no travel and potentially three to four days per week onsite. Consulting Directors typically travel to a single location or centralized region while on contract. Current locations of need include Fort Meade, Maryland; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fayetteville, North Carolina; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

ASI Government’s Department of War practice supports defense leaders across organizations including the Navy, Air Force, and Defense Logistics Agency. Its work addresses acquisition, industrial-base resilience, emerging technology, workforce, and organizational transformation. The practice brings mission expertise and consulting capabilities to translate strategic priorities into practical, measurable results.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of professional experience, including substantial experience in management consulting, strategy consulting, transformation consulting, or a comparable client-services environment.
• At least 5 years leading consulting engagements or major workstreams with direct accountability for senior-client relationships, integrated delivery, team performance, and executive-level outputs.
• DoW Secret Clearance and ability to obtain Top Secret / SCI (SAP Access).
• Demonstrated ability to independently navigate complex client environments and become a trusted adviser to senior executives.
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, including personally structuring analyses, building executive-ready storylines, and improving others’ work to a high consulting standard.
• Exceptional verbal communication and executive presence; ability to communicate a crisp point of view, facilitate decisions, and adapt in the room.
• Strong program management and attention to detail across scope, schedule, quality, resources, risks, decisions, and follow-through.
• Experience identifying, shaping, and advancing follow-on work through existing client relationships.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries and negotiating roles and work scope with partners, subcontractors, or peer consulting firms.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the clearance and client-site access required for assigned engagements.
• Willingness and ability to travel to client sites three to four days per week.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with the Department of War or other federal clients in acquisition, industrial base, logistics, readiness, organizational transformation, workforce, technology, or related mission areas.
• Experience in a top-tier strategy or management consulting firm, or a consulting environment with comparable standards for client leadership, analytics, and executive communications.
• Experience building a new account, capability, offering, or market area.
• Master’s degree or other relevant advanced degree.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, RPA, intelligent automation, or digital transformation programs in a federal context.

Responsibilities

• Co-lead the engagement with a government mission leader, combining consulting discipline with established client relationships, institutional knowledge, and subject-matter expertise.
• Serve as a senior day-to-day interface with client leadership; anticipate needs, assess stakeholder dynamics, and build credibility through sound judgment, responsiveness, and follow-through.
• Frame ambiguous problems, develop clear points of view, and provide strategic ideas and practical recommendations suited to the client’s mission, operating context, and implementation realities.
• Design and lead executive meetings, working sessions, decision forums, and difficult conversations using concise messaging and confident facilitation.
• Operate independently in sensitive client situations, escalating selectively and bringing proposed solutions rather than unresolved problems.
• Own engagements from problem definition through implementation, including scope, hypotheses, workplans, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes.
• Translate analysis into a clear storyline and personally develop, review, and refine polished PowerPoint presentations, Excel analyses, written products, and executive briefings.
• Set and uphold standards for accuracy, logic, visual presentation, attention to detail, and readiness for senior-client review; ensure deliverables require minimal executive rework.
• Manage program delivery, including action and decision tracking, risk management, meeting cadence, staffing, budget, and timely resolution of issues.
• Coach contributors through precise direction, rapid feedback, and quality review while remaining accountable for the integrated product.
• Define and negotiate work-lane scope, roles, interfaces, and decision rights with prime contractors, subcontractors, and other consulting partners.
• Identify where ASI can contribute distinctive value through AI, acquisition, organizational transformation, implementation, and government-domain expertise.
• Manage handoffs and interdependencies so the client experiences one coherent team while retaining visibility into ASI’s contributions.
• Shape follow-on opportunities by translating unmet client needs and adjacent mission priorities into defined problems, outcomes, approaches, stakeholders, acquisition paths, and next steps.
• Build direct, durable ASI relationships across the client organization and expand the firm’s network beyond the immediate engagement and partner-led channels.
• Partner with growth and capture leaders on on-contract growth, proposals, recompetes, account strategies, and reusable offerings.
• Manage contract performance, staffing, utilization, budget, burn, margin, subcontractor performance, and reporting using timely, accurate data.
• Identify delivery, relationship, financial, and contractual risks early; implement corrective actions and elevate decisions with clear options and recommendations.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package; details are available on the company careers site.
• Opportunity for career growth in a dynamic and mission-driven environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director