Engagement Lead - Consulting Director

ASI Government • Washington, DC

5h

About The Position

ASI Government is hiring an Engagement Lead (Director) to serve as the senior, accountable leader for a complex Department of War client engagement. The role independently navigates ambiguous client situations, builds trusted-adviser relationships with senior leaders, identifies how ASI can support client needs, and translates 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 lean-team leader. The successful candidate defines 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 works in close partnership with another ASI Engagement Lead, combining consulting expertise and delivery discipline with government experience, client relationships, institutional knowledge, and subject-matter expertise.

The DoW practice supports defense leaders across the Navy, Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency, and other Department of War organizations in areas including acquisition, industrial-base resilience, emerging technology, workforce, and organizational transformation. Travel is throughout the United States, with demand varying from weeks without travel to three or four days per week on-site. Consulting Directors typically travel to a single location or centralized region while on contract. Current locations include Ft. Meade, Maryland; Ft. Belvoir, Virginia; Fayetteville, North Carolina; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and Tinkers AFB in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of professional experience, including substantial experience in management, strategy, or 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, including the ability to communicate a clear point of view, facilitate decisions, and adapt in the room.
• Strong program-management skills 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.
• 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 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 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, combining consulting discipline 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 grounded in the client 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 engagements from problem definition through implementation, including scope, hypotheses, workplans, 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 high standards for accuracy, logic, visual presentation, attention to detail, and readiness for senior-client review.
• Manage program execution, including action and decision tracking, risks, meeting cadence, staffing, budget, and timely resolution of issues.
• Coach contributors through direction, feedback, and quality review while remaining accountable for integrated deliverables.
• Define and negotiate work-lane scope, roles, interfaces, and decision rights with prime contractors, subcontractors, and other consulting partners.
• Identify opportunities for ASI to contribute distinctive value through its AI, acquisition, organizational transformation, implementation, and government-domain expertise.
• Manage handoffs and interdependencies to maintain a coherent client team and visibility into ASI contributions.
• Identify and shape follow-on opportunities by turning client needs and adjacent mission priorities into clear problems, outcomes, approaches, stakeholders, acquisition paths, and next steps.
• Build durable ASI relationships across client organizations 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.
• 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, mission-driven environment.

What This Job Offers

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