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About the Role
The Performance Culture Center of Excellence (CoE) cultivates a high-performance culture at Keystone through rigorous talent assessment and development, clear feedback, and career pathing that aligns individual contributions with firm goals. This role focuses on standing up and running core programs for Keystone's senior population.
Responsibilities
- Drive the execution of performance evaluation and talent review processes for senior team members, ensuring rigor, consistency, fairness, and differentiation.
- Maintain a continuous understanding of senior talent's performance, development priorities, career trajectory, and readiness for expanded responsibility.
- Design and facilitate senior talent reviews and calibration discussions.
- Serve as a strategic partner to senior leaders in addressing performance challenges, role-fit questions, and readiness gaps.
- Partner closely with HR on sensitive performance and transition matters.
- Maintain and refine competency models, leadership expectations, scorecards, and promotion or hiring criteria for senior roles.
- Translate performance and competency information into actionable insights for promotion, role progression, leadership appointments, succession, and development decisions.
- Guide individualized development planning, coaching, sponsorship, and stretch opportunities to accelerate leadership growth.
- Lead succession and leadership-pipeline planning, identifying critical roles, bench strength, future-partner candidates, and readiness gaps.
- Support career and role planning for senior talent, including evolving leadership mandates, internal mobility, and transitions.
- Equip Partners and senior leaders to deliver candid, actionable, and development-oriented feedback.
- Provide leaders with tools, data, and guidance to assess performance and potential, sponsor future leaders, and make talent decisions.
- Identify common leadership capability gaps and recommend targeted development, coaching, or organizational interventions.
- Analyze senior talent performance, promotion, succession, retention, engagement, leadership pipeline, and development data to identify trends, risks, and actions.
- Support executive decision-making through analyses, dashboards, and executive-ready reporting.
- Partner closely with firm leadership, Practice Leaders, Learning & Development, HR, Talent Acquisition, and Staffing to deliver integrated senior talent solutions.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to strengthen governance, simplify processes, improve the leader experience, and increase program effectiveness.
Requirements
- Significant consulting and relationship-management skill, with the credibility and presence to advise Partners and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
- Exceptional judgment and discretion when handling highly confidential, sensitive, and consequential talent matters.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize nuanced, sometimes conflicting inputs into clear recommendations.
- Analytical mindset with experience interpreting talent, performance, and succession data and translating insights into action.
- Highly organized with strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple high-stakes processes and stakeholder groups simultaneously.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, constructive tension, and complex decision environments while building new programs and operating models.
- Service-oriented mindset and the ability to build trusted relationships with senior leaders while maintaining independence and consistent standards.
- Continuous improvement orientation with a bias toward simplifying processes and scaling best practices.
- Individuals who are already authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Skills
- Performance evaluation
- Talent review
- Talent development
- Feedback delivery
- Competency modeling
- Leadership development
- Succession planning
- Career planning
- Data analysis
- Project management
- Relationship management
- Consulting
Location
- New York City
- Boston
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- London
- Dubai
- Washington, D.C.
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Minimum 3 days in office per week
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000—$200,000 USD
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- 401k contribution
- Competitive benefits package
About the Company
- Keystone is a premier economics, technology, and strategy consulting firm built to help companies lead through transformation.
- We advise technology leaders, Fortune 100 companies, their legal counsel, and governments on business, economic, litigation, and regulatory strategy.
- We operate globally from offices in New York City, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, London, Dubai, and Washington, D.C.
Equal Opportunity
- At Keystone we believe diversity matters. At every level of our firm, we seek to advance and promote diversity, foster an inclusive culture, and ensure our colleagues have a deep sense of respect and belonging.
- If you are interested in growing your career with colleagues from varied backgrounds and cultures, consider Keystone.