U.S. Associate Consultant - Digital 2026

About the Company

L.E.K. is a premier strategy consulting firm, known for its fast pace, high-impact work, and close-knit international team. Founded in 1983, L.E.K. employs more than 2,200 professionals across five continents and is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s best firms to work for. The Digital practice helps clients solve their most pressing challenges with digital & AI solutions, defining and designing future businesses and the markets in which they participate.

About the Role

If you are a bright, motivated professional looking to tackle some of the toughest and most interesting business problems at the intersection of strategy, digital & AI, consider joining L.E.K.’s Digital practice as an Associate Consultant. This role offers a hybrid mandate, combining strategic framing with hands-on building of digital and AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Frame ambiguous client problems and design the analytical or technical approach to solve them.
• Conduct primary and secondary research, synthesizing findings into actionable recommendations and strategic narratives.
• Prototype and deploy digital and AI solutions—including agents, data products, evaluation harnesses, and lightweight internal tools—to move clients from strategy to execution.
• Determine whether a question is best answered with a deck, a working prototype, or both, and deliver either effectively.
• Own workstreams end-to-end, from problem definition through client-ready output, ensuring quality and pace.
• Embed with clients in the field, iterate solutions with end users, and drive adoption alongside the strategy.
• Coach junior team members across analytical and technical work, building capability across the case team.
• Communicate findings—written, verbal, and demonstrable—with the clarity and conviction expected of a senior client advisor.

Why L.E.K.?

• A hybrid mandate: strategic framing and hands-on building, not one or the other.
• Meaningful management opportunities.
• Breadth of experiences across digital & AI topics and industry sectors.
• Fun, stimulating work environment.
• International exposure.
• Upward mobility and a meritocratic culture.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier institution with a record of academic excellence.
• 3–4 years of full-time, post-undergraduate professional experience in strategy consulting, digital/AI product roles, software or data engineering, or a similar mixed environment.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and structure ambiguous problems.
• Hands-on proficiency with modern AI tooling, including agent frameworks, prompt design, evals, retrieval-augmented systems, and working fluency in at least one production-grade language (Python preferred).
• Fluency with the contemporary data and AI architecture stack, modern data warehouses, vector stores, orchestration frameworks, and the broader vendor landscape, including judgment to navigate buy-vs-build choices.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication, equally credible presenting to a CIO and demoing working software to end users.
• Judgment to determine when a problem is better addressed with strategic framing versus code, and the versatility to deliver either.
• Proven leadership and initiative; comfort embedding with clients in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Ability to integrate digital and AI thinking into traditional strategy casework and contribute to the growth of the Digital practice.

Strategy consulting experience (e.g., digital practices at strategy firms) is advantageous. Strong candidates from product, engineering, AI-native consultancies, or corporate digital roles will be considered if they demonstrate consulting readiness.

Pay

The base salary for the Associate Consultant level is $135,000 USD. The estimated total potential compensation at this level is up to $200,000 USD.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) with employer contribution.
• HSA contributions (where applicable).
• Paid time off and other firm-sponsored benefits.

Schedule

This role follows a hybrid work model for U.S. offices. Employees are required to be in their assigned home office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday each week, as well as the first Friday of each month.