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Advisory Director

Ashling Partners, Chicago, IL, United States


What You Will Do

Client Advisory & Pre-Sales Support

Support clients during discovery, positioning, and solution definition.

Participate in early-stage client conversations to clarify business needs and identify automation opportunities.

Act as a trusted advisor articulating Ashling’s services and value proposition across industries.

Solution & Technical Engagement

Perform high-level solution scoping and architecture definition.

Define enterprise-grade solution approaches in collaboration with delivery teams.

Translate emerging technologies into practical client solutions.

Demonstrate automation and AI platforms at a high level, aligned to client use cases.

Content & Asset Development

Create and maintain industry- and technology-focused assets, frameworks, and points of view (POVs).

Identify repeatable use cases and service offerings.

Assist with sales and advisory deck creation and refinement.

Ensure assets are current, organized, and reusable.

What You Will Bring

8+ years in consulting, advisory, or solution architecture roles within automation, AI, or digital transformation.

Experience supporting pre-sales or early client engagements.

Familiarity with business, functional, or solution architecture concepts.

Deep experience with intelligent automation platforms (UiPath, Google, or Microsoft preferred).

Prior experience in one or more regulated or complex industries.

Experience defining enterprise architecture, operating models, or transformation roadmaps.

Demonstrated experience creating reusable consulting assets, frameworks, or service offerings.

Strong communicator across executive and technical audiences, capable of translating business needs into solution approaches.

Highly organized and disciplined in asset creation and knowledge sharing.

Comfortable operating in ambiguity and evolving client environments.

Industry-specific expertise (banking, insurance, supply chain preferred)

Familiarity with enterprise architecture concepts and the ability to contribute to or define enterprise-level solution architectures.

Why Ashling Partners

At Ashling Partners, we strive to provide meaningful work in a positive, appreciative, and fun culture for our own team. All firm members are referred to as “Ohana,” the Hawaiian word for family, with regards to extended family beyond relatives. The concept emphasizes that extended families are bound together by a common belief, attitude or purpose and members must cooperate and remember one another.

Lifelong Learning

- In the intelligent automation space change happens fast, in order to support that change, Ashling has developed a culture that enables lifelong learners to continuously develop their skill sets

Diversity of Thought, Culture, Background & Identity

– We build diversity, equity, and inclusion capabilities into all facets of our business to support innovation, creativity, and our global growth objectives

Consistently Innovate with Cutting Edge Technology

– We offer a continuous model for performance improvement and the opportunity to work with best of breed automation technology stacks

Provide Servant-Based Leadership

– We believe the leader’s role is to serve the organization, not the other way around

Practice Stewardship

– We work together as peers, regardless of a person’s formal role or authority in the organization

Be Entrepreneurial in Management

– We empower people to bring ideas and challenge them with the responsibility to make them successful

Offer Open-Book Finance

– We give everyone the opportunity to see the books, how we are being measured and what our score is, so they can feel empowered to impact success

Provide the Best Service

– We may not be the cheapest, but we will deliver the best value to our clients

Make Data-Driven Decisions

– We are a data-driven organization internally and externally

Be a fun place to work

- We provide a positive, appreciative and fun culture

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