Lux Research

Consultant

Lux Research

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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About the role

  • Leads and designs projects for technology landscapes, innovation roadmaps, market opportunity assessments and forecasts, techno-economic due diligence, and other types of strategic, technology focused projects.
  • Delivers projects in time in full and within scoped budget, based on proposals they scoped with clients and wrote themselves or proposals from team members.
  • Manages project end-to-end with high autonomy; prepares the project plan and timeline, keeps the team on schedule, contributes to and guides research and analysis, and forms a strong team that together delivers strong opinions and recommendations for the client.
  • Executes projects in 2-4 person teams, involving data analysis, conducting primary and secondary research with executives, researchers, and thought leaders, coordinating internal brainstorms and working sessions, building and applying frameworks, assessing market impact, building interim and final deliverables.
  • Supervises and mentors internal subject matter expert team members and coordinates with their managers during projects.
  • Coordinates with the client during projects and leads the delivery of project reports and presentation, virtually or onsite at clients.
  • Quickly ramps up on new topics, demonstrates own topic knowledge with clients, pursues independent research activities, and directs/coaches younger team members.
  • Develops a network with business and scientific leaders in emerging technologies and within the C-suite of current and potential Lux clients among Fortune 1,000 corporations.
  • Collaborates with sales, internal subject matter experts, customer success managers, and fellow consultants to acquire projects.
  • Contributes to the development of Lux’s group-level business and operations.
  • Is able to travel globally up approximately 20-30%.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree or higher in relevant science or engineering field
  • 5+ years consulting, advisory, project management, innovation management experience, or similar roles
  • 2-3+ years’ experience presenting to, working with, and advising senior executives
  • High fluency and proficiency in oral and written communication in English
  • Strong time-, project-, team management, and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work on multiple concurrent projects in a dynamic, deadline-driven environment, as both an individual contributor and a project manager
  • Strong business acumen, analytical thinking skills, dedicated work ethic, attention to detail, thriving under pressure, ability to prioritize, problem-solve, adapt, and learn
Benefits
  • Equal Opportunity Employer
  • Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementdata analysisprimary researchsecondary researchmarket opportunity assessmenttechno-economic due diligenceinnovation managementframework developmentstrategic project designbudget management
Soft Skills
communicationinterpersonal skillsteam managementanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingadaptabilityattention to detailtime managementwork ethicability to thrive under pressure
Certifications
Master’s degree