Managing Director, Custom Strategy Consulting

Instruction Partners

Managing Director providing strategic leadership for custom consulting at Instruction Partners. Driving design, delivery, and growth of services to address instructional challenges for partners.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $166,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provides strategic leadership for the organization’s custom consulting function
Drives the design, delivery, and growth of services that help partners address complex instructional challenges
Manages a team of senior leaders and oversees a portfolio of high-impact consulting engagements
Translates organizational strategy into actionable workflows for the team
Codifies emerging best practices into scalable service models
Ensures custom consulting work advances both partner outcomes and the organization’s broader learning agenda
Owns custom consulting business development with accountability for an annual revenue target
Cultivates and sustains high-trust relationships with current and prospective partner senior leaders

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of professional experience in K-12 consulting, instructional improvement, or organizational leadership
Mastery of product and service design, including the ability to steer the codification and scaling of new service lines in highly ambiguous and undefined environments
Proven track record of building consulting pipelines, securing long-term partnerships, and meeting or exceeding annual revenue targets within the education sector
Deep expertise in K-12 instructional improvement and the leadership levers, data systems, and frameworks required to improve outcomes for priority student groups
Extensive experience managing and developing senior-level leaders, including building leadership pipelines and supporting Directors and above through complex technical and adaptive challenges
Advanced ability to build strategic relationships with senior partner leaders, synthesize complex organizational factors, and influence system-level decision-making across complex education systems

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options
Generous vacation policy

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designservice designconsulting pipeline developmentrevenue target achievementinstructional improvementdata systemsframeworks for educationleadership developmentstrategic relationship buildingsystem-level decision-making

Soft Skills

strategic leadershipteam managementrelationship cultivationinfluencesynthesis of complex factorsadaptabilitycommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingtrust-building