Associate
Incandescent
| Company | Incandescent |
| Category | Uncategorised |
| Location | New York |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Entry |
| Salary | USD 110k–160k |
| Posted | 2 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
About Incandescent
Incandescent is an advisory firm discovering how to create, build, and run enterprises to do the world’s most important work. We focus our work on three primary platforms:
- Corporates & Fortune 500s https://www.incandescent.com/work/advise, including a dedicated focus on Private Equity. We work with leaders with ambitious visions, whose aspirations reach beyond simply optimizing their current operations or applying known best practices. Our work focuses on:
- Strategy: shaping and redefining strategic direction at the enterprise level
- Execution: building the organization, culture, and talent necessary to achieve a new vision, a new level of performance, or a new magnitude of scale
- Innovation: creating new businesses and new capabilities within established organizations
- Systems Change Organizations https://www.incandescent.com/work/social-impact, including philanthropies, non-profit organizations and mission-driven enterprises. In this platform, we focus on:
- Shaping strategy for systems change actors
- Partnering with for-profit and non-profit entrepreneurs as they create and scale new organizations
- Applying practices in organization, culture and talent to social sector organizations
- Building partnerships among organizations that see the world differently – across sectors, disciplines, ideological lines and organizational stages
- Ventures https://www.incandescent.com/work/ventures, from late seed stage through Series B. We act as partners to founders, growing ideas into businesses that scale and endure, through two main ways:
- Acting as a co-founder to launch and build a venture
- Playing a long-term “right-hand” advisor role to founders and their leadership teams
Incandescent was founded in 2013 and we’ve been building a small team, slowly and carefully, since then. To accelerate our capabilities, we recently acquired Minds at Work, which we encourage you to read more about here https://www.onhumanenterprise.com/frogs-butterflies-announcing-incandescents-acquisition-of-minds-at-work.
Essence of the Role
We're looking for an Associate who can “hit the ground running”. This team member would focus primarily on our corporate advisory practice, while also having the opportunity to contribute to our work in systems change and venture building. The breadth of our work and our small team structure make this role demanding and fast-paced, with a strong learning and development orientation and significant client exposure.
The Associate serves as an advisor and consultant, working in small teams (generally 2-3 people) and working directly for senior client stakeholders. The small team size gives each team member significant ownership and client-facing responsibility from the beginning. As generalists, we serve clients on a broad range of issues related to strategy execution: advising senior leaders on how organization, culture, and talent can be used as levers for driving change and accelerating growth.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Conduct primary and secondary research on client organizations, industries, and business problems, turning ambiguous questions into useful inputs, hypotheses, and working points of view for the team.
- Synthesize what we are learning across interviews, meetings, and background materials, capturing high-quality notes to distill key insights, decisions, tensions, and next steps to move the work forward with clarity.
- Support and lead meetings with clients and other stakeholders, using strong listening, sound judgment, and empathy to gather insight, test hypotheses, and build trust-based working relationships.
- Prepare polished, client-ready materials, including decks, memos, and other working documents, translating complex ideas into clear, compelling communication for senior audiences and helping advance the team’s thinking and recommen
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