Associate Partner

Job Description

We are seeking an Associate Partner to play a pivotal role in leading client engagements, expanding relationships, and shaping the growth of our practice. This is both a delivery leadership and business development role — ideal for someone who excels at managing complex programs, building trusted client partnerships, and mentoring teams.

The Associate Partner will work closely with senior leadership to drive project success, contribute to go-to-market efforts, and ensure our clients see measurable value from their data initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Client Delivery Leadership

• Oversee delivery of large-scale data strategy, governance, and MDM engagements.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

• Provide quality assurance and ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with measurable client impact.

• Anticipate risks, resolve issues, and maintain high client satisfaction.

Business Development & Growth

• Build and nurture long-term client relationships based on trust and measurable outcomes.

• Identify opportunities to expand DataCatalyst’s services within existing accounts.

• Support proposal development, presentations, and thought leadership to win new business.

• Collaborate with partners and vendors in the data ecosystem to identify joint opportunities.

Practice & Team Development

• Mentor and coach consultants and senior consultants, supporting their professional growth.

• Contribute to the development of frameworks, methodologies, and reusable assets that strengthen our delivery capability.

• Help shape DataCatalyst’s practice strategy and service offerings.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in consulting (professional services or systems integration required).

• Proven experience managing large-scale client engagements and delivery execution, ideally in data governance, MDM, or enterprise data programs.

• Strong track record of operational execution management — including program governance, financial oversight, and delivery quality assurance.

• Demonstrated ability to engage C-level executives and build trusted client relationships.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

• Strong organizational and detail orientation; able to manage competing priorities across multiple clients.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to balance strategic vision and hands-on delivery leadership.

• Trustworthy, reliable, and committed to the highest professional standards.

Additional Information

At DataCatalyst, we enable enterprises to transcend data disorder and gain clarity—fostering smarter, faster decision-making. Our veteran team of data management, governance, and monetization specialists brings, on average, 15 years of experience to each engagement, and we're proud of our 100% project success rate.

We take a hands-on, pragmatic approach—eschewing large junior consultant rosters and sales layers in favor of lean, deeply skilled teams focused on generating real business value. Using our proprietary Accelerate methodology, we swiftly deploy high-quality data strategies, governance structures, and MDM implementations across industries like financial services, healthcare, manufacturing & distribution, retail, energy, and more.

We embrace a fully remote, low-travel model, enabling sustainable work-life balance across time zones without compromising client delivery. With a flat organizational structure, open collaboration, and software engineering-inspired rigor—particularly strong documentation and technical discipline—we cultivate an environment where each individual makes a direct and visible impact.