Strategy Associate, Advisory Practice

Are you a dynamic problem-solver who thrives at the intersection of strategy and impact? Imagine a role where you’re not just analyzing business challenges but actively shaping solutions that drive measurable growth for industry-leading clients.

As a Strategy Associate, you'll collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs) and leadership to develop actionable insights, innovative frameworks, and effective tools to solve pressing client challenges. From identifying high-impact opportunities to implementing scalable solutions, you’ll be directly involved in creating results for our clients in our advisory portfolio.

About Acquisition.com

At Acquisition.com, our mission is to make real business education accessible to everyone. Our core values—Competitive Greatness, Sincere Candor, and Unimpeachable Character—drive our work and define our culture. As a Strategy Associate, you’ll embody these values by tackling tough challenges head-on, fostering open and constructive communication, and maintaining the highest standards of integrity in your work. You’ll play a hands-on role in solving complex business problems for the most prestigious companies in our advisory portfolio, combining analytical rigor with creative thinking to drive real results.

Why Join Us

• Impactful Work: Shape client outcomes in meaningful ways, contributing to exponential growth and sustainable success for companies spanning multiple industries.
• Career Acceleration: Accelerate your career trajectory by gaining years’ worth of business experience in a fraction of the time, setting you on a path toward future opportunities.
• Innovation Opportunities: Join our strategy team in building cutting-edge tools and frameworks to efficiently solve business challenges at scale
• Industry Leaders: Work alongside top-tier professionals, including industry experts and leadership, gaining direct exposure to business strategy and operations that many spend years trying to access.
• This isn’t just another strategy role; it’s an opportunity to work on the cutting edge of business growth and make a lasting difference. If you’re driven, resourceful, and ready to rise to the challenge, we want you on our team.
  
  

Core Responsibilities

Business Insights And Data Analysis

• Conduct client discovery calls and business diagnostics.
• Interpret data from consulting sessions, market research, and client materials to determine best growth trajectory for each client.
• Leverage insights and pattern recognition across clients to enhance tools and frameworks.
  
  

Framework Development

• Design, test, and refine scalable business frameworks and tools to address recurring client challenges.
• Continuously update these frameworks to reflect industry trends, best practices from winning portfolio companies, and evolving client needs.
  
  

Consulting Deliverables

• Own preparation and refinement of high-quality consulting decks tailored to client needs.
• Ensure deliverables are in line with best practices, methodologies, and frameworks
• Collaboration with SMEs:
• Act as a thought partner to SMEs, contributing insights and shaping strategic recommendations for client engagements.
• Leverage insights from winning portfolio companies to create whitepapers and provide higher quality consulting for clients
  
  

Client Engagement

• Act as a primary point of contact for high-value clients, ensuring their challenges are addressed with professionalism, deep business insight, in a timely manner.
  
  

Results

• Best-In-Class Consulting: Consistently deliver high-quality, actionable consulting materials that meet or exceed client expectations, delivered within 72 business hours of final review, and contributing to a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 75% or higher.
• Process Ownership: Ensure seamless and high quality consulting experience by owning client discovery calls, data analysis, deliverable creation, and client engagement resulting in renewal rates of 80% or higher
• Strategic Eminence: Identify overarching themes and trends across clients, portfolio companies, and industry leaders to develop strategic insights and market research materials to leverage for guests and portfolio companies
  
  

Qualifications

Must-Have:

• 2-4 years of consulting or founder experience, with a proven track record of solving complex business challenges.
• B.A or B.S. in business, economics, engineering, computer science, mathematics, marketing, or communications is preferred
• Must be capable of working in a fast paced environment to build initial prototypes to test concepts and develop them into robust processes once proven. Entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial experience building a business or organization is preferred.
• Strong understanding of business operations, strategy, and frameworks, with the ability to learn and adapt rapidly.
• Experience designing structured, reusable frameworks to drive consistent client outcomes.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with an emphasis on clarity and precision. Ability to present to key stakeholders.
• Familiarity with key consulting deliverables such as client decks, spreadsheets, and memos
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality results on time or early.
• A strong commitment to excellence and an eagerness to learn in a fast-paced, feedback-driven environment.
• High self-awareness, adaptability, and a feedback-driven mindset.
• Kindness, empathy, and humility.
• Location: Onsite, with hybrid flexibility for non-client-facing days.
  
  

Salary

• $110,000-$140,000 base
  
  

Benefits

• Acquisition.com believes great people are at the center of every successful business.
• Medical, Vision, Dental Benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) with employer match
  
  

Acquisition.com Core Values

Our core values are the heart and soul of this incredible company. The right person for this role will appreciate each of these values, personally subscribe to them, and understand why each is critical to having a great business.

Competitive Greatness

Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a hard challenge. Those who have the drive to constantly improve, the superior intellect and long term commitment to see incremental improvements become compounding returns.

Sincere Candor

Have the self awareness to accurately perceive and communicate hard truths that improve others and self, the courage to do so, and the humility to accept them, even when it hurts. Nothing great can be built without feedback: internally or externally.

Unimpeachable Character

Be the type of person with whom people are always proud to associate, personally and professionally. We look for true alignment of thoughts, words, and actions towards a goal worth pursuing.