Senior Associate

About the job

Overview

Founded in 2006, the Future Today Institute helps leaders and their organizations prepare for complex futures. We focus exclusively on how emerging technology and science will disrupt business, transform the workforce and ignite geopolitical change. Our pioneering, data-driven forecasting methodology and tools empower leaders to make better decisions about the future, today.

About You

You are an experienced consultant who has helped clients with their most challenging problems. You make sure deadlines are met and client expectations are exceeded, and you do this while inspiring others. You are eager to explore plausible futures, research emerging areas of tech and science, and you prioritize high-impact work. You’re interested in helping organizations succeed and in helping others learn.

Your Role as a Senior Associate

About 80% of your time will be spent planning and managing client projects, and 20% of your time will be spent working on creative foresight research projects and pursuits.

This includes: managing 1-3 client projects at a time; serving as the primary liaison between client project leads and FTI with weekly check-in meetings; facilitating strategic conversations and meetings (telephone, video and in-person) with our clients; writing and preparing client deliverables. You will manage work streams and will work with other FTI team members to ensure high-quality execution and output.

One of our core values at the Future Today Institute is experiential learning. You will receive hands-on mentoring and training in New York City to build or strengthen your strategic foresight skills.

How To Apply

• Send your Resume
• Send a cover letter (500 words or fewer) and describe why you want to work with our team specifically. In the letter, also include a paragraph explaining what you like about our annual Trend Report and what you think could be improved. Please be candid and specific.
• Include two writing samples (business-related article or strategic scenario narrative––sensitive content can be redacted)
• Include three links to editorial content that you think is exceptional. Any content type is fine: can be a long-form article, a news article, a digital media project or other editorial product.

Requirements

• Project planning and management. Lead weekly client meetings and manage client relationships.
• Manage client engagements. Manage client projects across our key areas: foresight projects, workshops, content development and research. Lead a small internal team and serve as the owner of project deliverables, including prep work, pre-meeting work, conference calls, project plan and written reports.
• Conduct research and analysis. Generate detailed reports following client meetings and workshops. Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to support emerging tech trends, scenarios, and strategy projects.
• Develop client deliverables. Synthesize research and information from meetings for memos and for various research-intensive client deliverables.
• Help facilitate workshops. Support our clients with strategic advising on how to confront deep uncertainties, how to gain competitive advantage by early signal sensing and scenario mapping.
• Emerging tech trends research. Assist our tech trends team in their work on our annual reports. Imagine better futures. We’re always eager to find new creative outlets for foresight. You’ll help us imagine new projects to pilot.

Essential Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience working as a consultant, either with a consulting firm or in a consulting role within a company, is required
• MBA or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams
• Strong oral and written communication skills (writing sample required)
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Passionate about strategic foresight
• Deeply interested in emerging technologies and science
• Experience working with remote teams and in virtual office environments
• Flexible, adaptable and open to different ways of solving problems
• Willingness and ability to travel
• Media and speaking appearances (Preferred)
• Experience in developing portfolio of experts as well as writing thought leadership pieces (Preferred)
• Teaching experience (Preferred)
• Proficient in strategy formulation and application (Preferred)

We prefer candidates located in the greater New York City area, however we will consider candidates based in CST or EST time zones. Note: this position is only open to U.S. residents.

Benefits

We offer a competitive, full-time pay and benefits package including medical and dental insurance, 401k, six weeks of paid vacation, all federal holidays off and a competitive bonus structure.