Culture Design Strategist Consultant

YOUR IMPACT ON CULTURE DESIGN® A Gapingvoid Consultant works where human insight, strategy, design, and execution meet. You will help leaders see the forces shaping behavior, define a future people can believe in, and turn that future into language, experiences, tools, and systems people can use. This is not traditional management consulting. The recommendation is not the finish line. You will own meaningful workstreams from discovery through implementation, work directly with senior leaders, and stay close enough to know whether the strategy lands. Your impact should be felt twice: in the organizations we serve and in the quality of our own work. Bring a point of view, sharpen our methods, and help build Culture Design® can make possible. You will work unusually close to the problem, the people, and the consequences. The opportunity and the responsibility come together. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING Discovery, Research & Insight Synthesis Use interviews, stories, surveys, data, observation, and secondary research to understand what is really happening inside an organization. Look for patterns, tensions, contradictions, motivations, and what remains unsaid. Turn that complexity into insights the client can actually use. Culture Strategy & Belief System Design Turn research into a clear point of view about what needs to change and why. Help define the future state, the beliefs and mindsets needed to reach it, and the systems that support those shifts. Connect human insight to practical strategic choices. Facilitation & Co-Design Design and lead workshops, working sessions, interviews, and leadership experiences that help people think together. Create enough trust for honest conversation while surfacing tension, challenging assumptions, and moving groups toward useful decisions. Design with clients, not simply for them. Narrative, Memetic & Semiotic Development Turn insight into language, stories, and ideas people can understand, remember, and carry forward. Write narratives, points of view, drawlines, and creative briefs, then partner closely with Creative to make the thinking visible. The goal is not just clarity, but ideas that travel. Transformational Experience & Activation Design Move strategy off the page and into the lived experience of the organization. Design workshops, Masterclasses, rituals, artifacts, Culture Walls, launches, communications, and other interventions that help new thinking become real. Consider how the experience feels as carefully as what it communicates. Visual Storytelling & Deliverables You’ll craft decks, memos, and frameworks that bring clarity and resonance to complex challenges. You’ll write and design in Gapingvoid’s voice, elevating both the aesthetic and emotional impact of our work. You'll plan and execute events that provide impact and help transform large groups of people. Culture Systems, Socialization & Sustainment Think beyond the launch and design for what happens next. Help clients build the rituals, language, recognition, feedback loops, leadership behaviors, and repeated experiences that allow new beliefs and behaviors to spread. The goal is a culture system the organization can eventually own, evolve, and sustain. Client & Stakeholder Leadership Build trusted relationships across complex client environments, from frontline employees to senior leaders. Listen deeply, navigate competing perspectives, communicate clearly, and help people move through resistance or uncertainty. Know when to support, when to challenge, and when to say the difficult thing. Delivery, Ownership & Implementation Own meaningful workstreams from idea through execution. Manage timelines, decisions, client communication, dependencies, revisions, and the details that keep complicated work moving. Strategy matters here, but follow-through matters just as much. WHAT YOU BRING You may come from anthropology, human-centered design, organizational strategy, behavioral science, experience or service design, innovation, or a related field. What matters is how you think and deliver. Experience studying human behavior and uncovering what drives it. Systems thinking: seeing relationships, incentives, power dynamics, and the conditions shaping a problem. A design-thinking approach to research, synthesis, ideation, experimentation, and action. The ability to turn complexity into a clear point of view, strategic direction, and practical next step. Creative range across language, narrative, symbols, frameworks, and experiences. An instinct to design experiences and moments that create meaning, connection, and movement. Strong facilitation and the awareness to read a room, navigate tension, and influence without relying on authority. Experience leading client-facing workstreams and communicating with senior stakeholders. The follow-through to carry thinking through execution. Ability to travel as needed for in-person client meetings and events - Up to 30% Must be U.S.-based, able to pass a background check, and authorized to work in government spaces (a large share of our clients are in the Department of Defense or government-adjacent sectors). Credentials matter less than the combination we value: an anthropologist’s curiosity, a designer’s imagination, a strategist’s judgment, and a builder’s follow-through. ABOUT GAPINGVOID We don’t fix broken culture. We build human operating systems. For nearly 20 years, Gapingvoid has designed Culture as a System® across the public and private sectors. Culture is not the softer layer around the work. It is the beliefs, language, behaviors, rituals, and signals that shape performance and determine whether strategy becomes real. We make it designable. We believe work should be an inspiring mission: something that teaches, tests, and transforms us. We give leaders tools to turn employees into believers and help people reach more of their potential. We are an entrepreneurial firm building the methods, tools, and discipline to make Culture Design® a serious management system. We Cut Through BS. We Design Belief. We Install Devotion. We are Never Sedated. BENEFITS YOU CAN EXPECT* We don’t just create meaningful work—we embody it. Alongside competitive pay, we provide a people-first benefits package that supports your health, growth, and sense of purpose. Here’s what you can expect when you join the G-Team: Health & Wellness 100% coverage of employee vision and dental insurance 80% coverage of employee basic health care insurance Financial Security & Development 401(k) matching: 100% match up to 4%, 50% match on the next 2% Educational assistance by approval Membership in relevant professional organizations Work-Life Integration Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave after one year of employment 20 days of PTO, plus four end-of-year reflection & restoration days and six paid Holidays Connectivity Reimbursement up to $100/month Five Year Anniversary: Five additional days PTO & $2,500 for personal travel Onboarding & Support Personal buddy system to ease your onboarding journey and beyond *Detailed information available upon request Employment Structure Full-time employee in a fully remote role. Most collaboration occurs Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. ET; schedules may flex with client and travel needs. Must be U.S.-based and eligible for CAC access; U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required for DoD work. Your home address serves as your official work location. Travel up to 30% for client meetings, events, and occasional multi-day programs. Hiring Timeline We anticipate bringing this role onboard as upcoming client engagements begin over the coming months. While the exact start date may vary based on project timing, this posting represents a planned hire for our consulting team. We are interviewing candidates now so we're ready to move quickly as projects launch. We're excited to see your materials come through. Hit "Apply" to complete our Application form in Airtable. We truly appreciate your interest in Gapingvoid and your time spent on our application!