Engagement Lead - Consulting Director, DRPM

ASI Government•Arlington, VA

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About The Position

ASI Government is hiring a senior Engagement Lead (Director) to own a complex Department of War (DoW) DRPM UxS consulting engagement. The role calls for an accountable leader who can navigate ambiguous and sensitive client situations independently, serve as a trusted adviser to senior government leaders, identify where ASI can add value, and turn 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 position begins as a hands-on individual contributor or lean-team leader. The successful candidate will define project vision and strategy while personally structuring analyses, building and editing PowerPoint and Excel deliverables, leading client meetings, and resolving day-to-day delivery issues. The Engagement Lead will partner closely with another ASI Engagement Lead who contributes government experience, client relationships, institutional knowledge, and subject-matter expertise. Experience with other DRPM programs or initiatives is highly desired. Travel is throughout the United States and varies with engagement needs: it may be absent for weeks or reach three to four days per week on site. Consulting Directors typically travel to a single location or centralized region while on contract. Current needs include the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and Dayton, Ohio. The role requires a DoW Secret clearance and the ability to obtain Top Secret/SCI (SAP Access), as well as the ability to obtain and maintain clearance and client-site access required for assigned engagements. ASI Government’s DoW practice supports defense 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 combines mission expertise and consulting capabilities to deliver practical, measurable results, and team members may contribute across high-priority engagements and help develop client partnerships, capabilities, and offerings.

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).
Ability to obtain and maintain clearance and client-site access required for assigned engagements.
Demonstrated ability to navigate complex client environments independently and become a trusted adviser to senior executives.
Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills, including structuring analyses, building executive-ready storylines, and improving others’ work to a high consulting standard.
Exceptional verbal communication and executive presence, including communicating a clear point of view, facilitating decisions, and adapting 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 from existing client relationships.
Experience working across organizational boundaries and negotiating roles and work scope with partners, subcontractors, or peer consulting firms.
Bachelor’s degree.
Willingness and ability to travel to client sites three to four days per week.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting any current DRPM program or unmanned systems project.
Experience with 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 an 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 another 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, bringing consulting discipline together with client relationships, institutional knowledge, and subject-matter expertise.
Serve as a senior day-to-day interface with client leadership; anticipate needs, understand 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 and operating context.
Design and lead executive meetings, working sessions, decision forums, and difficult conversations.
Operate independently in sensitive client situations, escalating selectively and bringing proposed solutions.
Own engagement delivery from problem definition through implementation, including scope, hypotheses, workplan, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes.
Translate analysis into clear storylines and personally develop, review, and refine PowerPoint presentations, Excel analyses, written products, and executive briefings.
Maintain a high quality bar for accuracy, logic, visual presentation, detail, and readiness for senior-client review; minimize executive rework.
Manage program execution, including action and decision tracking, risks, meeting cadence, staffing, budget, and timely issue resolution.
Coach contributors through clear 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 consulting partners.
Identify opportunities for ASI to contribute its AI, acquisition, organizational transformation, implementation, and government-domain expertise.
Manage handoffs and interdependencies so the client experiences a coherent team while ASI’s contributions remain visible.
Identify and shape follow-on opportunities by translating client needs and adjacent mission priorities into problems, outcomes, approaches, stakeholders, acquisition paths, and next steps.
Build durable ASI relationships across the client organization 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 options and recommendations.