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About the Role

As a Consulting Manager, you will lead complex client engagements, guide high-performing teams, and build trusted relationships that deliver meaningful results. You will oversee work from initiation through completion, balancing client needs, delivery quality, team development, and Propeller’s business goals. You will help clients navigate difficult decisions while identifying opportunities to deepen our impact.

Responsibilities

Lead contracted scopes of work, ensuring deliverables meet or exceed client expectations.
Serve as a trusted advisor, helping clients navigate complex decisions and develop effective solutions.
Develop frameworks, approaches, and methodologies that strengthen delivery and support future work.
Lead complex, multi-workstream engagements and take accountability for overall team performance, health, and delivery.
Establish and manage staffing, roles, responsibilities, ways of working, and resource needs throughout the engagement.
Coach consultants and provide timely feedback, partnering with Performance Managers and leadership on development, recognition, and performance concerns.
Build trusted client relationships through regular communication, expectation management, and ongoing feedback.
Proactively manage engagement scope, risks, and changes, partnering with the Account Director on escalations and contract modifications.
Manage project hours and expenses to balance client satisfaction, delivery quality, and Propeller profitability.
Identify opportunities to expand client impact and support account management, proposals, and business development activities.

Requirements

12+ years of project management, strategy, operations, and/or change management, including at least 3 years of experience at a management consulting firm
Experience serving as an Engagement Lead on consulting engagements; able to lead teams to deliver on complex projects involving multiple workstreams and specializations
Ability to build and sustain trusted, executive-level client relationships
Track record of successfully managing and developing others; ability to proactively address team or individual challenges through constructive feedback and coaching
Strong presentation, communication, and facilitation skills
Career history that demonstrates progressive responsibilities and accountability
Bachelor’s degree
Ability to travel based on client need (up to 15%)
Ability to demonstrate a legal right to work in the U.S.

Skills

Project management
Strategy
Operations
Change management
Management consulting
Engagement leadership
Team development
Client relationship management
Presentation skills
Communication skills
Facilitation skills

Location

San Francisco, CA

Work Type

Hybrid
Onsite (client site)
Remote (home)

Experience Level

12+ years of experience
3+ years of management consulting experience
Management experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

$173,250 - $195,000 base
$173,250 - $206,750 full range
Bonus targeted between 5-10% of base salary

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

About the Company

Propeller is a people-focused management consulting firm that helps organizations accelerate transformation and move forward faster.
We work with clients to solve complex problems, clear hurdles, and bring transformation to life—building the momentum needed to make change stick with solutions that are right-sized, scalable, and built to last.
Our teams bring a mix of strategic thinking and practical know-how across strategy, enterprise technology, and organizational effectiveness.
We collaborate closely with clients, adapt quickly to their needs, and show up ready to do the work together.
Our clients are typically large and mid-sized organizations in the retail, technology, public sector, and energy and utility industries.
We have offices in Portland, San Francisco, and Denver, and work with clients across the country.
Propeller may be the place for you if you're energized by solving hard problems, guiding leaders and teams through change, and making progress that sticks.
You're curious, collaborative, and resilient—with the grit to keep moving forward, even when the path is ambiguous, and the answers aren’t clear.

Equal Opportunity

Propeller is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We are committed to attracting, developing, and advancing the most talented individuals regardless of their race, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, disability status or any other dimension of diversity.
Propeller is committed to meeting our applicant’s accessibility needs throughout the hiring process. If you need any accommodation during the process, such as accessibility accommodations to assist with email, phone, or video communications, or other accommodation matters, please do not hesitate to email hiring@propeller.com.