Engagement Lead - Consulting Director

About the role

ASI Government provides government leaders with expertise to navigate acquisition and organizational challenges, impacting over 70 agencies across civilian, defense, and intelligence communities. The role is within the rapidly growing Department of War (DoW) practice, supporting defense leaders in mission-critical outcomes across Navy, Air Force, Defense Logistics Agency, and other DoW organizations. The Engagement Lead (Director) is a senior accountable leader for a complex DoW client engagement, requiring independent navigation of ambiguous client situations, acting as trusted adviser to senior leaders, identifying ASI support, and translating strategy into disciplined execution and executive-quality deliverables. The role begins as a hands‑on individual contributor or lean‑team leader, involving personal structuring of analyses, building and editing PowerPoint and Excel deliverables, running client meetings, and resolving day‑to‑day delivery issues. High frequency travel throughout the United States is required, with current locations including Ft. Meade, MD; Ft Belvoir, VA; Fayetteville, NC; Pentagon – Arlington, VA; Wright Patterson ARB – Dayton, OH; Tinkers AFB – Oklahoma City, OK; Space Force – Colorado Springs, CO.

Responsibilities

• Client leadership and trusted advisory: co‑lead the engagement with a government mission leader; serve as senior day‑to‑day interface with client leadership; anticipate needs, read stakeholder dynamics, build credibility; frame ambiguous problems, develop points of view, provide strategic ideas and practical recommendations; design and lead executive meetings, working sessions, decision forums, difficult conversations; operate independently in sensitive client situations, escalate selectively and bring proposed solutions.
• Consulting delivery and quality: own the engagement from problem definition through implementation (scope, hypotheses, workplan, milestones, dependencies, decisions, outcomes); translate analysis into clear story line and personally develop, review, refine polished PowerPoint, Excel, written products, executive briefings; set high quality bar for accuracy, logic, visual presentation, attention to detail, readiness for senior‑client review; maintain rigorous program management (action/decision tracking, risk management, meeting cadence, staffing, budget, timely issue resolution); coach contributors through precise direction, rapid feedback, quality review while remaining accountable for integrated product.
• Partner and work lane leadership: define and negotiate clear work‑lane scope, roles, interfaces, decision rights with prime contractors, subcontractors, other consulting partners; identify where ASI can contribute distinctive value based on AI, acquisition, organizational transformation, implementation, government‑domain expertise; manage handoffs and interdependencies so client experiences one coherent team without losing visibility into ASI contributions.
• Account growth and market development: identify and shape follow‑on opportunities by translating unmet client needs and adjacent mission priorities into clear problems,