Sr Analyst - Visual Communications & Presentations

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

AtAHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging,where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

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We embrace all candidatesthatwillcontribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives atAHEAD.

You will be a key creative contributor to AHEAD’s Design CoE — delivering high-impact presentation design, visual storytelling, and consulting communication outputs that directly influence pursuit outcomes and client engagement quality. This is a hands-on design role that combines deep craft excellence with an understanding of consulting context and business narrative. You will work at the intersection of data, design, and technology, collaborating closely with consultants, researchers, analysts, and technologists to create best-in-class presentation, visualization, and analytics solutions.

Your work will directly shape how sharply AHEAD’s ideas are expressed, how persuasively its stories land with CXO audiences, and how consistently the firm projects a consulting-grade visual standard across every client engagement.

• Actively contribute to the smooth operation of the Design CoE — following intake workflows, briefing processes, quality review standards, and turnaround benchmarks; suggest improvements to processes as experience grows.
• Collaborate closely with fellow Visual Communication Specialists and Presentation Analysts; model a design culture grounded in creative excellence, delivery discipline, and continuous improvement; support onboarding of junior team members when needed.
• Participate in structured onboarding and training programs; take ownership of personal skill development across design craft, consulting communication, and emerging tools — and share learnings informally with peers.
• Manage personal workload effectively across concurrent consulting engagements and research publications; flag capacity or prioritization conflicts proactively to the Team Lead.
• Consistently meet quality and turnaround benchmarks; actively seek feedback from the Team Lead and stakeholders to raise the bar on every deliverable.

• Take primary ownership of complex, high-stakes design work — strategic proposals, executive communications, pursuit decks, and CxO/board-level presentations — delivering polished outputs with minimal iteration cycles.
• Apply narrative excellence across consulting outputs: refining storylines, sharpening executive messaging, enhancing proposal storytelling, and translating insights into compelling slide sequences.
• Transform unstructured inputs — scribbled notes, whiteboard captures, fragmented ideas, raw data, and oral briefs — into cohesive, structured, and visually compelling consulting narratives.
• Collaborate with consulting and sales teams to develop differentiated win themes and visual pursuit strategies that strengthen proposal quality and CXO resonance.
• Engage consulting stakeholders with recommendations on visual and narrative approach; build a reputation as a thoughtful creative collaborator who understands business context, not just design craft.
• Translate analytical outputs into compelling visual stories and interactive experiences that make data and insight accessible and persuasive for client audiences.
• Design interactive visualizations, exploratory data tools, and storytelling interfaces that elevate the quality and impact of AHEAD’s consulting outputs.

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