Advisory Director at Ashling Partners – CHICAGO, Illinois

About Ashling Partners

Ashling Partners is at the forefront of the hyper automation revolution! We help clients improve productivity and employee engagement by leveraging intelligent process automation, RPA, Process Intelligence, data capture/OCR and Machine Learning technologies. Our team leverages lean agile principles to make automation gains sustainable and a driving force for digital innovation.

Founded by business process improvement & technology industry veterans, Ashling Partners values meaningful work for our employees while driving real value for our clients in a sustainable and continuous manner. We will always value progress over perfection. While doing so, we strive to continually build a positive, appreciative, and fun culture for our organization.

Our rapidly growing organization is taking the world by storm, quickly becoming THE global boutique in intelligent automation. We are looking for life-long learners and servant-leaders who are passionate about innovation and the future of work. If this sounds like a place for you, we would love to meet you!

• 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.

• 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.
• Ideal Advisor Profile
• 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.

• 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

• Quarterly book allotment (any book of your choice, no cap!)
• Uncapped training allotment
• Unlimited holidays
• Unlimited PTO!
• Immediate 401K contributions