Role: Senior Associate, Leadership Practice Locations: New York City, Boston, Chicago, Houston Position Summary The Senior Associate is a critical delivery leader within Pearl Meyer’s Leadership Practice, owning assigned projects and/or multiple or interdependent workstreams. In all cases, the results are integrated into fully formed, client-ready work products. Senior Associates anticipate issues, shape storylines and recommendations, direct and review junior team members’ work, and deliver output requiring limited senior-level iteration. While not accountable for the engagement overall, the Senior Associate is central to delivery excellence and contributes through increasing client influence, subject-matter depth, business development, and collaboration across the Leadership Practice and more widely across Pearl Meyer.

Key Responsibilities

Own projects, interdependent workstreams, or a significant portion of a large engagement, and integrate results into a coherent client-ready answer. Produce fully formed, client-ready work product with limited senior iteration and exceptional standards for rigor, accuracy, storyline, judgment, and usefulness. Anticipate engagement-level issues, propose solutions, and escalate with judgment; help shape the workplan, storyline, and recommendations with more senior consultants. Build trusted relationships with project-level and increasingly senior client stakeholders; lead substantive portions of client meetings and increasingly influence client thinking and action. Direct and review junior team members’ work, ensuring quality, pace, effective handoffs, and timely feedback while building others’ capabilities. When assigned alongside Client Success Team members, work collaboratively to ensure all facets of client delivery are see as exemplary in the eyes of the client. Deepen selected solution, functional, or sector expertise and apply it independently in client work; synthesize market and firm knowledge into useful insights. Contribute substantively to proposals, pitches, account planning, and opportunity development; connect relevant capabilities across Leadership and Executive Compensation and take ownership of defined Practice or firm initiatives. Key Competencies Exceptional delivery standards, attention to detail, and commitment to fully formed work product. Structured problem solving, synthesis, and ability to integrate multiple workstreams into a coherent answer. Sound judgment, proactive issue resolution, and anticipation of engagement-level needs and risks. Clear, compelling written and verbal skills with increasing client influence. Team coordination, quality review, coaching, and constructive feedback. Developing subject-matter depth, curiosity, and strong learning agility. Professionalism, integrity, confidentiality, collaboration, and an enterprise mindset

Qualifications

Demonstrated ability to own and integrate multiple workstreams or significant portions of an engagement and deliver fully formed, client-ready work product with limited senior iteration. Strong analytical, synthesis, written, verbal, and presentation skills, including shaping storylines and recommendations and engaging in substantive client discussions. Ability to anticipate issues, exercise sound judgment, review junior colleagues’ work, and demonstrate growing subject-matter depth and commercial awareness. Flexibility to pivot attention to more pressing client needs, as directed.

Compensation

The base salary compensation range being offered for this role is $100,000– $125,000 USD per year. This role is also eligible for an annual short-term incentive bonus. Company Benefits We provide a competitive benefit package which includes the following (eligibility requirements apply): Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical (including prescription coverage), Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Commuter Account, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Group Accident, Group Critical Illness, Life Insurance, AD&D, Group Legal, Identify Theft Protection, Wellbeing Program and Work/Life Resources (including Employee Assistance Program) Leave Benefits: Paid Holidays, Annual Paid Time Off (includes paid state/local paid leave where required), Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves (e.g., Bereavement, FMLA, ADA, Jury Duty, Military Leave, and Parental and Adoption Leave), Paid Time Off Retirement Benefits: Savings Plan (401k).