What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate, Strategy Consulting position at Starlake Management Group?
About Starlake, Our Work, and Areas of Concentration
Starlake Management Group (“Starlake”) is a new strategic management consulting firm. Built on the principles of excellence, integrity, and true partnership, the firm establishes long-term relationships with clients with the goal of enabling true enterprise excellence across the strategy, operations, systems and R&D, and emerging opportunities dimensions. The firm operates through a generalist orientation, with a broad industry base including Financial Services (incl. Private Equity and Institutional Investors), Industrials & Manufacturing, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Technology, Media, and Telecommunications sectors.
Starlake seeks to establish a differentiated Partnership, defined by a profound commitment to intellectual honesty, long-term relationships with clients, and an approach that seamlessly bridges strategy to mobilization and needle-moving leadership for client organizations.
About the Associate Role
The Associate is the building block of Starlake, working in tight-knit engagement teams on client matters of significance, advancing internal research and capability-development initiatives, and, given the nascency of the firm, serving as firm-builders, helping to define the culture, client service grammar, and other key characteristics of the firm as it develops.
The Associate is expected to assume a wide array of responsibilities from the outset, with exceptional communication, unassailable integrity, and servant leadership being the defining thread. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Leading problem solving across the diagnostic through recommendation phases, within compressed timelines and exacting analytical standards
- Engaging directly with senior executives, with a first-principles lens that challenges assumptions and presents findings with full intellectual honesty, while driving complex strategic decisions
- Managing client partnerships as well as internal firm-building work, with the ability to navigate select stretches of sustained intensity
Mandatory Qualifications
Flowing from the exacting nature of the Associate role, the qualification requirements are:
- Candidates with advanced degrees (e.g., M.B.A., J.D., Ph.D., M.D.) are strongly preferred, though exceptional undergraduate candidates will be considered on a case-by-case basis
- 3–5 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, corporate law, or adjacent fields, with a track record of professional excellence and outsized impact
- Top-percentile analytical, writing, and communication abilities
- Top-percentile judgment, professional discipline, and ability to deliver under demanding conditions
Additional Notes
The firm maintains selective hiring standards. Applications will be reviewed as capacity permits.