Associate, Executive Leadership Programs

Core Responsibilities

• Executive Insight Synthesis
• Review and synthesize notes, recordings, and materials from executive network meetings, leadership trainings, conferences, and other executive interactions into clear themes, questions, and insights.
• Identify recurring patterns across these interactions to inform Metis Strategy’s research agenda and programming priorities.
• Distinguish signal from noise, preserving nuance while surfacing the most consequential insights for senior technology leaders.
• Research and Content Development
• Draft insight briefs, research summaries, presentations, articles, and background materials for internal and external use, including original written content informed by executive conversations.
• Support development of curated executive research and firm thought leadership (e.g., keynotes) that reflect Metis Strategy’s perspective on priority topics.
• Edit and refine consultant-authored articles to ensure clarity, consistency, and executive readiness while preserving each author’s intent.
• Act as an editorial partner in shaping Metis Strategy’s point of view on priority topics, pushing for clear, differentiated perspectives rather than neutral summaries.
• Help curate and produce two newsletters – one weekly and another monthly – for an executive audience.
• Insight Management and Internal Enablement
• Maintain and manage an executive insights and themes tracker, tagging insights by topic, industry, function, and relevance to firm priorities.
• Leverage tracked insights to surface new patterns and proactively route relevant themes and case studies to consulting leaders based on known areas of need.
• Work closely with consulting teams to incorporate executive network and conference insights into client work, and to feed learnings from client engagements back into the executive programs and research agenda.
• Ensure requested insights, materials, and follow-ups are tracked and fulfilled, and attend select sessions or events to support real-time insight capture and synthesis.

Qualifications and Expectations

• 2-5 years of post-undergraduate experience supporting senior leaders through research, synthesis, writing, or insight development in advisory, research, or editorial settings.
• Bachelor’s degree in areas such as business, economics, political science, public policy, journalism, communications, or related fields.
• Strong interest in technology leadership (CIO, CTO, Chief Digital Officer, etc.) role and the evolving responsibilities of technology leaders, with curiosity about how executives think, decide, and prioritize.
• Strong listening skills, with the ability to capture and synthesize insights from live executive conversations, meetings, and events.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and incomplete information; can impose structure without oversimplifying nuance.
• Clear, precise writer with the ability to summarize complex ideas for senior audiences.
• Commitment to operational rigor and follow-through to ensure insights, themes, and commitments are consistently tracked, updated, and delivered.
• Comfortable operating behind the scenes while working in close proximity to senior leaders and high-visibility work.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to manage and synthesize large amounts of data.
• Facility with MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel; experience with data analysis or visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Visio) is a plus.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action, ownership, and continuous learning.
• High intellectual curiosity in the pursuit of professional and personal development.
• Integrity and professionalism, with the ability to exercise judgment and maintain confidentiality.
• Relationship driven, with a proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with internal and external clients.
• Team player with a willingness to learn from others.

What Metis Strategy has to Offer

• Standard base pay range for this role is $80,000 - $95,000, annually.
• This position is also eligible for bonus compensation.
• Additional benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance, parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, paid time off, and more.
• Career growth and the opportunity to help grow the intellectual, functional, economic, and geographic footprint of a thriving technology and business advisory firm.