Associate

About the Role At Prophet, our Associates sit at the intersection of rigorous consulting, human-centered thinking, and transformative strategy. As a Associate, you’ll play a key role on critical workstreams across brand, marketing, customer experience, and business transformation; helping Fortune 500 clients and fast-moving challengers alike solve their most pressing growth challenges. You’ll gain early and consistent exposure to clients, and work closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams. Our projects span industries, from healthcare and financial services to tech, consumer goods, and beyond, providing unmatched variety and learning opportunities. We value curiosity, courage, and collaboration, and we're looking for individuals who want to think boldly, act insightfully, and create real change.

Your Day to Day Support the delivery of high-impact client work. You’ll play a central role on project teams where you’ll help to frame the problem, guide the strategic approach, and ensure the work moves forward smoothly. You’ll work closely with Managers and Partners on a range of brand, marketing, and growth strategy challenges. Break down complex challenges into clear paths forward. You’ll help define project approaches, synthesize ambiguous inputs, and support strategic frameworks that guide the team and client toward actionable solutions. Conduct rigorous analysis and strategic thinking. You’ll analyze market trends, customer behaviors, and competitive dynamics to generate thoughtful, relevant insights. Your work will connect business context with strategic implications. Craft compelling deliverables and stories. You’ll help develop client-ready deliverables that translate strategy into narratives that drive alignment and decision-making. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. You’ll partner with strategists, creatives, and analysts to explore problems from different perspectives and elevate the quality of thinking across the team.. Help grow the firm beyond project work. You’ll contribute to business development efforts, from drafting points of view to supporting proposal development, and participate in internal initiatives that shape our thinking and culture. Leverage AI to work smarter and get to insights faster. You’ll use GenAI and other AI-enabled tools to accelerate research and spark thinking, and as a foundational tool for the work. Apply strong business acumen to drive strategic thinking. You’ll bring a sharp understanding of how businesses create value; considering growth levers, operating models, and financial implications to ensure our strategies are both creative and commercially sound. What You Bring Bachelor’s degree required with demonstrated academic performance Strong business acumen: an understanding of how businesses generate value and the financial levers that drive performance Excellent communication and storytelling skills: ability to present to clients with clarity and confidence Experience leading others: managing junior team members and navigating up to senior leaders Ability to thrive in ambiguity and manage multiple workstreams in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments Comfort working across industries and functions; a quick study who can pivot between diverse business challenges Passion for client impact and a collaborative mindset Familiarity with AI tools, AI strategy or implementation experience, and/or exposure to GenAI applications Location: 3+ days a week in office/at client site Salary: $80,000-85,000