Associate Strategist – Strategy, Innovation & Thought Leadership (Fortune 500 Clients)

Help Leaders Make Bold Moves in Times of UncertaintySome firms focus on optimizing the past. Others aim for incremental growth. At Jump, we help senior executives invent the future—by tackling their toughest challenges: Where will growth come from in five years?What new business models will keep us ahead?How can we lead our category rather than follow it?We don’t run the playbook—we write it.

For nearly three decades, we’ve partnered with Fortune 500 companies like Nike, Samsung, and Target to deliver innovation strategy, business transformation, and customer insights that unlock new growth and create bold futures. As a boutique and specialized firm, Jump is well-known for delivering Purpose and Values, Strategic Foresight, Opportunity Definition, New Business Creation, and more. Start Your Journey as a Strategist, Coach, and FacilitatorAs an Associate Strategist, you’ll contribute to high-impact projects from day one, working closely with senior teammates and client executives on challenges that don’t come with easy answers.

You’ll bring excellence in your discipline and develop the core capabilities of a Jump advisor: Strategist: Frame complex challenges, uncover insights, and help create growth playbooks tailored to each company’s future. Coach: Support leaders in gaining clarity and confidence in moments of uncertainty. Facilitator: Contribute to experiences that help teams align on bold moves and unlock breakthrough thinking. At Jump, you’ll grow quickly, building the skills to shape strategies that influence industries. Some of What You’ll DoAt Jump, no two weeks look the same. Some of what you’ll do includes:

Conduct deep research across industries, markets, and emerging behaviors to uncover bold customer insights. Collaborate with your team to synthesize findings into frameworks and strategic narratives. Analyze trends and data to help identify transformative opportunities for clients. Develop artifacts—concept sketches, prototypes, and thought leadership pieces—to bring abstract ideas to life. Contribute to Jump’s intellectual capital, helping shape ideas that influence how industries think about growth. Learn to present insights and recommendations to clients with clarity and confidence.

Develop as a Hybrid ThinkerWe’re looking for craft-driven hybrid thinkers—people who bring depth in one discipline, exposure to a second, and curiosity about a third. Maybe you studied industrial design and minored in business. Maybe you majored in business and took design thinking courses. Maybe you studied sociology and applied those insights in internships on innovation teams. Wherever you started, you’re ready for a role that challenges you to use it all. The disciplines are: DesignYou can sketch and prototype to make abstract ideas tangible.

You create visual systems and artifacts that help others see and align on bold ideas. Business StrategyYou’ve conducted analysis, built frameworks, or contributed to growth plans in dynamic environments. You synthesize complex data into actionable recommendations. Social ScienceYou’ve designed and executed ethnographic research, interviews, or fieldwork to uncover critical insights. You translate patterns of human behavior into frameworks that inform strategic decisions. The Details📍 Location: San Mateo, CA (Monday–Thursday in-office). ✈️ Travel: ~25% for client work and research. 📆 Experience: Recent graduates or up to 2 years post-undergraduate experience. 🇺🇸 Eligibility: Must have permanent U. S. work authorization.

How to ApplyIf this sounds like you, click to apply and: Submit your resume and a short blurb about how you have developed hybrid thinking skills and interest (feel free to include an artifact or case study, if relevant). Complete the Predictive Index assessment (link provided after application form). Why Jump?You’ll join a tight-knit team of big thinkers and bold doers, tackling problems that don’t come with easy answers. Together, we push each other to do the best work of our careers—and help leaders make bold moves that shape the future.