Account Executive in Automotive & Mobility

Current Directors or Senior managers, consulting engagement directors, and those involved in business development, sales, and delivery may apply. Focus on developing client relationships, developing new business, and expanding existing client relationships and projects.

Location:

Detroit, Michigan, US, remote. Willingness to travel within the US, Europe and to Star office locations, and elsewhere, as may be required by Star.

Star is a global consultancy that connects strategic endgames, strategy, design and engineering services to help companies accelerate product innovation and achieve their business goals. With over a decade of constant compound annual growth, we are rapidly expanding our consulting services, geographic footprint, and industry expertise. The role of Business Development Director, DACH, will be instrumental in getting us there.

Star works for businesses in a variety of industries, including Automotive & Mobility, Health Tech, Fin Tech and AdTech globally. Our clients include BMW Group, SAIC, Lufthansa, Denso, NIO, Panasonic, Appy Way, Zeiss, Walmart and Dolby, Daimler Truck, Hyundai Motor Europe, amongst many others.

We support our clients in every step of their digital journey. Through co‑creation, we guide them from ideation and concept crafting to full‑stack development. We always remain focused on supporting our clients, whether enterprise customers, investors or start‑ups, to win the hearts and minds of their (end) customers.

At Star, we blend strategy, insights, design and engineering into a seamless workflow devised to support our clients – no matter how long or complex their journey. We anchor everything we do in clear and compelling endgames, which in turn enable our multidisciplinary teams to create superior solutions and support impressive commercial returns for our clients.

Star is truly global in its footprint and its outlook. That is why we are the first major consulting company with no single headquarters. Instead, clients have many routes to Star, spanning Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Beijing, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Copenhagen, Kyiv, Wroclaw, and other vibrant design, technology and creative nuclei of the world. Our spirited and growing 700+ strong Star Crew takes great pride in working side by side with their trailblazing counterparts at some of the largest enterprise clients and global brands, with highly profitable mid‑market players, as well as the world's most disruptive "unicorn" startups.

Our passion is to make every great person, every great idea and every great company shine. That's why we're called Star.

Working directly with the Global Head of Automotive & Mobility, you are currently an energetic, commercially oriented Account Executive, consulting engagement leader looking for your next challenge. This is a role that will give you the freedom to prove yourself and be in charge of moving our business in the US forward.

Your focus in this role will be on Star’s development & sales growth in the US, with a clear focus on short, medium, and longer‑term revenue generation and associated profitability (with other assignments, as may be required and agreed). This is an opportunity for someone already in such a business development position or a senior consulting manager ready to step up and develop new and existing client relationships.

You will focus on acquiring new logos and expanding existing ones for Star, building the US client base across Automotive & Mobility and adjacent industries.

You will possess a mix of business development and sales orientation, client problem‑solving skills, and pragmatic, hard‑headed sales execution, delivering on clear revenue goals, and be keen to develop your career further in an environment that will give you the freedom to grow your own ‘business‑within‑a‑business’, and be supported by a global team. You will be a self‑starter who seizes opportunities and has a background in both consultancy‑led sales and project delivery.

Together with the Head of Automotive and Mobility, you will define, create, sell, and run (as well as own) initiatives that will expand the US business, increase margins,…