Consulting & Professional Services Executive Roles
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior role at MBB, Big Four, boutique strategy houses, and other professional services firms classified at the exec tier.
Tier breakdown
28
Founder113
C-Suite763
VP66
Sr Director275
DirectorWhat this category covers
The Consulting, Business & Professional Services industry covers the full advisory and professional-services market: strategy houses (MBB, Bain, BCG, McKinsey), Big Four advisory (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG), boutique strategy and operations firms, technology consultancies, and large professional-services holding companies.
Senior leadership at consulting firms uses different title conventions than corporate roles. Partner and Managing Director are the dominant exec titles; "VP" is rarer. The classifier recognizes Partner-tier and MD-tier as exec seats — Partner equity status is treated as the strongest tier signal, regardless of base comp.
Functions present include strategy practice leaders, M&A advisory heads, transformation practice leads, technology consulting heads, and corporate-finance practice MDs. By volume this is one of the largest industries on the platform — only Technology and Healthcare track higher.
Sample Jobs (10 of 1,245)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Senior Director, Business Development, Compliance & Trade Surveillance ... Harrington Starr Further details will be provided on application. Sr Director | New York, New York, United States Unknown |
| Director, Security Compliance and Trust Motive Build and lead the compliance function, manage audits, privacy operations, and AI governance at Motive. Director | United States Remote |
| Regional Vice President, Strategic East Sales Motive Lead a team of Strategic Account Executives, engage and close large prospects, and support Motive's growth in the Strategic East Sales segment. VP | United States Remote |
| Principal / Director, Product Origination & Distribution Strategy, Insurance KKR Lead and manage product origination and distribution strategy for insurance products. VP | New York, NY Unknown |
| Director, Client Delivery - Tax Services Cotality Leads a team focused on onboarding Tax Services software for enterprise clients, overseeing client delivery managers, and ensuring successful implementation and client satisfaction. VP | Dallas, TX; Irvine, CA; Rochester, NY Unknown |
| Internal Audit/SOX Director Eliassen Group Lead independent and objective assessments of financial statements and internal controls, enhance credibility of information for stakeholders, and build, optimize, and deliver internal audit services across industries. Director | San Francisco, CA Unknown |
| Director of People Technology & Data Legora Lead technology and data initiatives for Legora's People function, including HRIS implementation and people analytics. Director | New York City, NY Onsite |
| VP of Revenue Marketing Factory Seeking a strategic, data-driven Vice President of Demand Generation to build and lead a predictable, scalable growth engine. This leader will own demand creation, pipeline generation, and opportunity acceleration across the customer journey. Director | San Francisco, CA; New York, NY Onsite |
| Head of Economic Research & Data Insights NerdWallet Lead economic research and data insights, partner with Communications, and serve as NerdWallet's primary economic voice. VP | Remote Remote |
| Director of Product, Workforce Management Motive Lead the management and execution of Workforce Management products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive growth and adoption. Director | Vancouver Hybrid |
How classification gets to this category
Consulting industry classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other industry, with consulting-specific signals at the company-tagging stage:
- Company industry tagging. The company is recognized as a strategy, management, or professional-services firm via SIC/NAICS codes, company description heuristics, and a curated allowlist of MBB, Big Four, and boutique-strategy firms.
- Title-to-tier mapping uses consulting conventions. Partner is treated as CXO-equivalent. Senior MD is CXO or VP-tier depending on practice scope. MD without "Senior" is VP-tier. Senior Director Engagement is Sr Director tier. The mapping is industry-aware so a "Partner" doesn't get misclassified by the corporate-tier ruleset.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the job description for client P&L scope, partnership track vs. salaried, and practice headcount. A Partner with a regional practice P&L carries a different tier signal than a Salaried Director at a boutique. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier also has a negative filter: "Senior Consultant," "Engagement Manager," "Senior Manager" (when not Partner-track), "Principal" at sub-Director level, and "Associate" titles are explicitly blocked from the executive gate.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Consulting & Professional Services is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Consulting + CFO/Finance and your inbox shows Finance-practice leaders, corporate-finance Partners, and Practice Heads of Transformation only — not every Consulting role on the platform, and not every Finance role regardless of industry. You get the intersection.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only CXO-tier (Partner) and above seats — filtering out Senior Director engagement-leader roles — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to Director-tier for the partner-track feeder layer. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
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