Senior Manager Business Consulting

Title: Senior Manager

Time zone: Central Time; Chicago homebase preferred

Compensation: $130 USD / hour and a possible full-time base salary range of $150-170K USD.

Start Date: September, 2025.

Duration: 6 months, with possibility to extend or to convert to a salaried role based on performance and business needs

Hybrid Engagement:

Work onsite with client Tue, Wed, and Thu

Work from anywhere Mon and Fri

40 hrs/week

About Jemini

Jemini is a design-led transformation consultancy that helps ambitious organizations turn vision into reality. We partner with companies like Nike, McDonald's, Carhartt, and Target to unlock potential and drive change through strategic alignment, systems design, organizational development, and business innovation. Our work is rooted in an interdisciplinary approach that blends human insight and creativity.

How we work

We don’t deliver solutions to clients, we co-create them with clients. We guide teams through change by combining structured approaches with open, adaptive thinking. Our approach blends business acumen, strategic thinking, design methodologies, and facilitation to build clarity and alignment across teams. Because our work is complex, interdisciplinary, and multidimensional, we iterate as needed in order to deliver the best solution.

About this role

We’re looking for a hybrid consultant who blends business thinking with design expertise to effect transformation in complex, human-centered systems. This role is at the intersection of design, strategy, and organizational change. You’ll guide clients through ambiguity, helping them clarify purpose, align stakeholders, and co-create solutions.

You’ll bring a wealth of experience to client engagements, leading discovery, designing strategic frameworks and artifacts, and facilitating alignment at the executive and team levels. In this role, you will rely on your depth and breadth as a business consultant who understands client stakeholder engagement, governance, comms, and change management. Whether the challenge is designing a new operating model, activating a business transformation, or shaping a future-state org, this role helps bring vision into tangible form.

Success in this role

10 years of success as a Senior Manager-level consultant, integrating design, systems expertise, and a deep understanding of human behavior to ensure that client orgs thrive during major transformations. Experience working in or consulting with large, matrixed organizations with high degrees of ambiguity and change.

Client relationships: Work directly with clients to understand their needs, develop customized solutions, and ensure that projects align with their strategic objectives.

• Shape and guide strategic transformation work spanning organizational design, communications, change enablement, and team activation
• Design and facilitate discovery processes, working sessions, and executive workshops that uncover insight and build shared understanding
• Synthesize research, insights, and strategy into actionable opportunities, hypotheses and solution prototypes

Project leadership: Lead and deliver innovative solutions for clients and manage complex projects from start to finish, ensuring client satisfaction.

• Skilled in research, sensemaking, and synthesis to generate clarity from ambiguity
• Strong visual communication and storytelling skills; ability to bring ideas to life through frameworks, narratives, or design artifacts that clarify direction and enable decision-making
• Comfortable designing and facilitating workshops that align cross-functional teams and executives
• Change Leadership
• Governance & Communications

Energetic Dynamism: Bring the energy. Demonstrate resilience and a proactive mindset in fast-paced, ambiguous environments. A self-starter who balances multiple priorities while maintaining a high level of energy, focus, and accountability.

Resilience & Adaptability: Embrace change with agility, pivoting in response to feedback and evolving priorities. Maintain composure and problem solve effectively under pressure.

• Collaborative, yet autonomous
• Flexible, nimble, adaptable, resilient
• And, are you ready for this one? – Durable!
• Deep understanding of human behavior and organizational dynamics
• Able to lead project work and manage client relationships with presence and clarity

A note on fit:

We know this is a rare combination of skills. What we’ve found is that the most successful people at Jemini have diverse backgrounds and the ability to apply what they know across domains. They’re driven by curiosity, thrive outside their comfort zone, and bring confidence, creativity and rigor to complex challenges. Plus, they are multifaceted and multidimensional, not carbon copies. If that sounds like you, we’d love to meet you.

Mechanics of this role

Location: Our Jemini team is distributed across the United States and Canada, and we are a virtual-first team. We gather as a full team in person three times a year in rotating cities for team-building, collaboration, and learning.

This career opportunity, though, is in a hybrid work model (as a function of our client’s needs) with occasional travel to immerse alongside our clients.

Tools: Because of our virtual-first team structure, we lean heavily on digital tools like Slack, Figma / FigJam, and video conferencing for daily collaboration. That said, our clients use various types of technology (Microsoft, Google, etc.) so our team has to flex across many platforms and tools on a daily basis.

Structure & compensation: We start most Jemini teammates as contractors to ensure there is a mutual fit. We have equitable pay bands for all roles, and this role has a contract rate of $130 USD/hour and a full-time base salary range of $150-170K USD.

Our hiring philosophy

We’re excited for new colleagues to join us who believe in a highly collaborative and flexible way of working. And we're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people our client partners reach worldwide.

At Jemini, we know your whole story matters. We hire based on how well we think you can grow into a role, not only how long you have already done the same type of work. While we care about past performance, we place equal importance on your motivations, abilities, and potential for continued growth.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds and create an environment where talent isn’t just recognized—it’s nurtured, challenged, and propelled toward what’s next. If you’re enthusiastic about design-led consulting and share our company values, we want to hear from you.

Jemini is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Jemini considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. Jemini is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.