About Modern Executive Solutions

Modern Executive Solutions is a fully integrated talent management consultancy with a specific focus on developing diverse, modern leadership teams. We help the world’s boldest leaders and most powerful organizations define the future, not follow it.

Why Modern?

• Purpose-Driven Work: Join a team that is committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and gives back to the community by donating 10% of annual profits to support underserved youth and educational opportunities
• Impactful Projects: Contribute to meaningful projects that positively impact clients’ organizations, communities, and the development of diverse leaders.
• Professional Growth: Gain exposure to various aspects of the business, with opportunities for mentorship, leadership development, and career advancement.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy a robust benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, along with a 401(k) match.
• Flexibility & Balance: Benefit from a flexible remote work environment, paid parental leave, and an office setup stipend to support your work-from-home needs.

Our Values

• Be Bold: Think strategically, seeing implications and creative paths. Innovates commercially – seeks to understand client perspective to drive impact. Innovates internally - seeks to improve processes, procedures, and technology used within and across their teams. 
• Be Excellent: Deliver client ready work, with attention to detail, raising the bar of expectations within team and with data integrity to include the use of all company tools and systems. Motivated by excellence to the benefit of clients and our firm.  
• Be United: Be an inclusive ‘team player,’ willing to support, develop and ‘go the extra mile’ to deliver impact with others. Proactively develops trusting relationships both within and outside our firm.  
• Be Authentic: Demonstrate awareness, coachability and a desire to grow with continuous improvement. Motivated by a personal purpose aligned with our firm’s mission and values. Is accountable for delivery of client ready work. 

Associate Consultant

​Location: Remote (Headquarters in Atlanta, GA)

Overview of the Role

We’re seeking a smart, dynamic Associate Consultant to join our Associate Development Program – a structured, rotational experience designed to accelerate your growth in talent and organizational consulting. As part of a cohort of emerging professionals, you’ll rotate through key departments across the firm, gaining hands-on exposure to executive search, leadership advisory, and organizational strategy. You will be guided and coached by experienced consultants to help you build the skills needed to become a future consulting leader. In this program, you will launch into a purpose-driven career by meaningfully contributing to projects and driving impact across industries that shape modern leadership.

In this role, you will develop a strong understanding of executive search, talent/organizational strategy, client management, business development, and professional services operations. You will operate as a versatile analyst and problem solver in service of consulting and search teams with key accountabilities including, but not limited to:

• Proactively define objectives, problem solve, coordinate with stakeholders, seek necessary expertise, and drive successful outcomes from initial planning through final execution
• Support executive search and talent/organizational consulting teams with data-driven insights
• Identify and evaluate top-tier executive candidates by leveraging advanced tools and techniques
• Support the development and implementation of talent strategies, including projects related to leadership development, organizational design, and culture transformation
• Create client-ready deliverables, ensuring high standards in formatting, clarity, and strategic storytelling
• Contribute to intellectual property development, collaborating across teams to advance thought leadership, share knowledge, and refine enterprise solutions
• Participate in cohort learning and cross-functional rotations

Skills needed for the Role:

• Problem Solving: Able to define a problem statement, structure a problem analysis, develop solution options and select a course of action.  
• Analytical Thinking & Data Management: Competent at collecting and analyzing large data sets, conducting research, and visualizing insights to drive strategic recommendations. Able to look at both qualitative and quantitative data and infer insights. Strong numerical and qualitative reasoning.  
• Interpersonal Skills: Strong interpersonal skills that can be applied to engage effectively with clients (internal and external), understand their unique needs, and offer customized recommendations that drive results.  Have confident professional presence. Ask great questions and listen effectively. 
• Project Management: Able to coordinate projects and manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring high-quality work is delivered on time and within scope. 
• Research: Highly competent at defining a problem and organizing an effective research methodology to gather the data required. Understand how to leverage multiple methods for achieving research goals and able to source and master new methods for research on an ongoing basis.  
• Communication & Presentation: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create clear, concise, and compelling presentations for internal and external stakeholders. 

Requirements for the Role:

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in business, social science, finance, data science or equivalent. 
• Work Experience: Previous relevant experience, e.g., internships in consulting, search, human resources, or a related field and/or organizations.
• Quick Learner re: Office Tools/Technology: Able to quickly master the use of new technology tools to get things done.  Helpful to have comfort with the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to create client-ready documents, presentations, and data visualization

Modern Executive Solutions is dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, national origin, age, disability status, veteran or military status or care-giver status. Please contact us at careers@modernexec.com if you need assistance completing this application.