Full-Time

Business Consultant

Code and Theory

Code and Theory

1,001-5,000 employees

Digital agency delivering UI and AI

Compensation Overview

$170k - $220k/yr

New York, NY, USA

Remote

Category
Consulting (2)
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Required Skills
Financial Modeling
Requirements
  • 5-10 years in management consulting (BCG, McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte Strategy & Operations, Accenture Strategy, EY-Parthenon) or equivalent roles at enterprise technology, SaaS, or professional services companies
  • Demonstrated experience in at least two of the following: go-to-market strategy, pipeline development, solution pricing, competitive analysis, organizational design, operating model transformation, change management, technology enablement, ways of working design
  • Track record of building structured, evidence-based arguments and presenting them to senior stakeholders
  • Experience leading or contributing to organizational assessments, operating model redesigns, or large-scale technology rollouts is a strong differentiator
  • Equal comfort in a boardroom discussing commercial strategy and in a working session redesigning how a team operates day to day
  • Commercial orientation when the work calls for it — you understand how revenue is generated, not just how organizations are structured
  • Operational rigor when the work calls for it — you can design an org model, a governance framework, or a rollout plan with the same precision you'd bring to a market sizing exercise
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity — this role requires building the methodology as you go, not executing an existing playbook
  • Bias toward action — you'd rather produce a strong recommendation with 80% of the data than a perfect one that arrives too late
  • Collaboration without deference — you'll work alongside creative leads, technologists, and solution architects who think differently than you do, and the work is better for it
  • Strong analytical skills: financial modeling, market sizing, account research, competitive benchmarking, organizational analysis
  • Clear, concise communication — you can distill a complex landscape into a one-page case for action, or translate an operating model redesign into language a leadership team can rally around
  • Comfort with data: pulling insights from CRM systems, pipeline reports, organizational surveys, market data, and public sources
  • Familiarity with the enterprise SaaS landscape, particularly the Adobe ecosystem (Experience Cloud, Experience Platform, Marketo, Workfront, Creative Cloud Enterprise). Direct experience working with or selling alongside enterprise technology platforms is a strong differentiator
  • Experience with organizational design frameworks, change management methodologies, and/or technology adoption planning is valuable across many of our engagements
Responsibilities
  • Develop go-to-market strategies for new solutions, services, and offerings: target buyer profile, sales motion, competitive positioning, channel strategy, pricing
  • Build business cases for new investments: market sizing, revenue modeling, competitive differentiation, and expected return
  • Design pricing strategies: cost modeling, competitive benchmarking, value-based pricing frameworks
  • Advise on commercial positioning — how to frame an offering so the right buyers see themselves in it
  • Conduct deep-dive research on target accounts: business challenges, strategic priorities, technology landscape, competitive dynamics, and trigger events
  • Identify whitespace — where the strongest opportunities sit across a defined set of accounts and which to pursue first
  • Build the account-by-account case for engagement: why this prospect, what to lead with, what proof supports it
  • Analyze existing client portfolios to surface patterns, proof points, and cross-sell opportunities
  • Lead organizational assessments: how teams are structured, how work flows, where processes break down, what needs to change for the business to operate at the next level
  • Design target-state operating models: org structure, roles and responsibilities, decision rights, governance, cross-functional interaction models
  • Develop ways-of-working frameworks: how teams collaborate, how work gets briefed and reviewed, how tools and platforms are integrated into daily operations
  • Assess organizational readiness for change and design adoption strategies that account for how people actually work, not just how the org chart says they should
  • Support the rollout of new tools, platforms, and workflows across client organizations — ensuring technology adoption is grounded in process design and change management, not just deployment
  • Design training programs, documentation, and enablement materials that make new technology stick
  • Work across workstreams to ensure technology implementations connect to the operating model they're designed to support
  • Support complex engagement scoping where the client need is ambiguous, spans multiple services, or involves business transformation
  • Lead diagnostic assessments: value capture, market readiness, implementation readiness, adoption strategy, competitive positioning
  • Develop reusable frameworks and tools that improve how the practice qualifies, scopes, and wins work
  • Feed insights from account research, client engagements, and competitive analysis back into the practice
  • Surface patterns that sharpen targeting, inform pricing, improve operating models, and identify repeatable opportunities
  • Contribute to practice-level strategy with evidence-based analysis of market trends, client needs, and engagement outcomes

Code and Theory combines creative design and engineering to help large brands address consumer behavior, emerging tech, and AI. It offers website design, digital campaigns, and UI development, delivered by a 50/50 team of engineers and creatives to ensure technical solidity and visual appeal. Working with clients like Amazon, Oracle, and Albertsons shows its ability to scale projects and deploy AI-enabled solutions, such as collaborations with Oracle. The goal is to be a trusted partner for big companies by delivering bespoke, data-driven digital solutions that improve presence and performance at scale.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2001

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Enterprise Experience Transformation practice captures GenAI ROI consulting as enterprises struggle with measurement.
  • Synthetic persona testing expands from financial services to B2B, sports, media verticals.
  • The Machine agentic OS creates switching costs for enterprise clients invested in platform.

What critics are saying

  • Adobe partnership dependency exposes Code and Theory to pricing changes and API deprecations.
  • Synthetic personas in financial services face Fair Lending Act compliance and regulatory scrutiny.
  • Competitors including Accenture and Deloitte achieve feature parity within 18-24 months, eroding differentiation.

What makes Code and Theory unique

  • 50/50 creative-engineer balance at scale differentiates from pure creative or pure tech agencies.
  • Creative Intelligence System automates customer data-to-creative pipeline, reducing manual handoffs.
  • Three-year Adobe co-development partnership embeds Code and Theory into Experience Platform natively.

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Merced Sun-Star
Mar 24th, 2026
Fast Company names Code and Theory one of the World's Most Innovative Companies for second consecutive year.

Fast Company names Code and Theory one of the World's Most Innovative Companies for second consecutive year. March 24, 2026 7:32 AM Gift Article Stagwell's digital transformation network was recognized in the Advertising and Marketing category for building the infrastructure that turns AI ambition into business transformation. NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 24, 2026 / Code and Theory, the digital transformation network within Stagwell (NASDAQ:STGW), has been named to Fast Company's prestigious list of the World's Most Innovative Companies for 2026, the second consecutive year the company has earned the distinction. Code and Theory was recognized in the Advertising and Marketing category alongside Google, Nvidia, Adidas and Walmart. The recognition arrives at a decisive moment. AI has moved from conversation to infrastructure, and the gap between companies that are genuinely restructuring around it and those still piloting around the edges is becoming visible. Code and Theory has spent the past year not just advising clients on AI strategy, but building the systems that make AI-driven marketing and experience work at scale. Central to that work is The Machine, the industry's first agentic marketing operating system, built by Code and Theory in conjunction with Stagwell. The Machine connects people, data and tools to drive better outcomes. What differentiates The Machine is that it works in our clients' tools and on top of their stack to maximize adoption and interoperability. It enables organizations to move at AI speed without surrendering the brand judgment and human instinct that make experiences worth having. Over the past year, some of the most complex organizations in the world have looked to Code and Theory, leveraging its differentiated balance of 50% engineers and 50% creatives to solve some of the industry's toughest challenges, including: * TIME to reimagine its digital flagship and reignite a 100+ year-old media brand. * Amazon to inspire and convert millions of small businesses through a global Amazon Ads campaign. * Henry Schein to reinvent healthcare commerce at global scale. * Microsoft to reimagine how it engages with developers and earns their trust. * Stanley Black & Decker to lead a global digital transformation across 30+ brands and 55+ markets. * NFL to build a connected digital ecosystem across broadcast, social, web, app and stadium experiences. This recognition extends a historic run of industry validation. In the past two years alone, Code and Theory has received 15 top honors from Adweek, Ad Age, the ANA, Campaign, Digiday, The Drum and the Shorty Awards, including Adweek's inaugural Innovation Agency of the Year and taking No. 5 spot on Ad Age's 2026 A-List. Dan Gardner, Co-Founder of Code and Theory, said: "Every meaningful shift in our industry has happened at the intersection of creativity and technology. That's where we've always operated. What's different now is the pace and the stakes. AI isn't a trend. It's a structural change. Our advantage is not that we're reacting to it, but that we're built for it. This recognition reflects a team that knows how to turn change into practical, measurable outcomes." Michael Treff, CEO of Code and Theory, said: "A lot of companies are talking about AI, but very few are restructuring how they actually work. Code and Theory is rebuilding businesses' operating systems so they can move at AI speed without losing the human instincts that create real connection, both for themselves and their clients." Brendan Vaughan, Fast Company Editor-in-Chief, says: "Our list of the Most Innovative Companies is about spotlighting organizations that don't just adapt to change - they drive it. The companies we honor this year are redefining what leadership looks like in 2026, pairing bold ideas with measurable impact and turning breakthrough innovation into real-world value. They are setting the pace for their industries and offering a blueprint for what sustained innovation can achieve." About The Code and Theory Network The Code and Theory Network is the only digital transformation network with a balance of 50% creative and 50% engineers. Our unique makeup makes us the place where CMOs, CTOs and CIOs come together to drive results for their businesses. We partner with our clients to redefine what is possible to create lasting impact and drive long-term growth. Part of Stagwell, Code and Theory offers a global footprint and the capabilities to work across the entirety of the customer-facing journey, and implement the technology that powers it. The network includes the flagship agency Code and Theory as well as Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Truelogic, Create. Group, Rhythm and Mediacurrent. Code and Theory clients include Amazon, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, NBC, NFL and Yeti. For more, visit codeandtheory.com

The SCORES Network
Sep 3rd, 2025
Code and Theory Launches 100% AI-Generated Ad for SCORES Network to Show How Sport and Poetry Transform Youth Lives

The SCORES Network, a nonprofit that serves underserved youth through after-school programs that blend soccer, poetry and community service, has partnered with creative and technology agency Code and Theory to launch "Find Your Feet."

PR Newswire
Jun 5th, 2025
Code And Theory Named Ana B2B Agency Of The Year After Transforming The World'S Leading Brands

The Stagwell agency's 12 ANA B2 award wins highlight its transformative impact for clients Amazon Ads, ETS, Thomson Reuters and QualcommNEW YORK, June 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Code and Theory has been named Business-to-Business (B2B) Agency of the Year at the prestigious Association of National Advertisers (ANA) B2 Awards, marking its sixth major agency honor in 2025 alone. This recognition reflects Code and Theory's unmatched ability to deliver technology-first, transformative solutions that meet the demands of today's rapidly evolving B2B landscape.Code and Theory has been named Business-to-Business (B2B) Agency of the Year at the prestigious Association of National Advertisers (ANA) B2 Awards, marking its sixth major agency honor in 2025 alone.At the ANA B2 Awards, Code and Theory earned 12 award wins across clients Qualcomm, ETS, Amazon Ads and Thomson Reuters. These wins highlight the agency's ability to blend technology, creativity and collaboration to drive measurable business impact. Notable results include:Rebranding Thomson Reuters as a B2B tech leader, boosting unaided awareness by 40%. Explore the work. Redefining Qualcomm's developer experience, achieving a 425% increase in engagement

Cache Valley Daily
Jun 5th, 2025
Code and Theory Named ANA B2B Agency of the Year After Transforming the World's Leading Brands

NEW YORK, June 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - Code and Theory has been named Business-to-Business (B2B) Agency of the Year at the prestigious Association of National Advertisers (ANA) B2 Awards, marking its sixth major agency honor in 2025 alone.

PR Newswire
Mar 18th, 2025
Stagwell'S (Stgw) Code And Theory Launches Inaugural Presence At Adobe Summit With The Announcement Of Its New Enterprise Experience Transformation Practice

Stagwell's Code and Theory accelerates the content supply chain for brands, driving innovation across customer experience to digital experience platforms.NEW YORK and LAS VEGAS, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In an era where AI is fundamentally reshaping digital experiences, Code and Theory is boldly redefining industry boundaries with its new Enterprise Experience Transformation practice. Led by Chief Transformation Officer Cory Haldeman, this strategic expansion represents more than a new service offering — it's a comprehensive response to the market's evolving needs. The practice will launch at Adobe Summit, during which Code and Theory will showcase its value realization solutions to accelerate GenAI's transformative impact on customer experience