Careers
WORKING AT SMITHSTREET
The dynamic background of our employees and our rich cultural environment provides an experience incomparable with other companies. This makes working at SmithStreet an exciting and continuous learning experience, strengthening your expertise, knowledge and overall career.
We believe in integrating our teams to create a better working environment that strengthens each team’s and individual’s ability. We are more of a family than anything else, and we constantly help each other to develop by encouraging and challenging our coworkers.
No matter what level you are at, SmithStreet consultants are empowered to lead and eager to make a difference. Our flexible culture lets you pursue your passions and shape your own career. As a result, you will inspire, teach, learn, and push boundaries to deliver enduring results for our clients and for your own portfolio.
Your growth at SmithStreet is driven by your performance, not by your tenure. This means there’s no fixed career path or length of time that you’re locked into a particular level. Instead, we believe in recognizing and rewarding outstanding performers.
We’re hiring:
Analyst
Associate
Engagement Manager
Intern
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
SmithStreet is looking for a special kind of person in order to build a special kind of company. Our employees are self-driven, hardworking, and take pride in the quality of the work they produce. Specifically, we are looking for employees who:
- Are good at problem solving and creative thinking
- Seek greater responsibility in order to fulfill their potential
- Take pride in their work
- Put the needs of their team above their own
- Are willing to learn
- Want to improve their English/Chinese language skills
We are looking for intelligent and driven individuals who can contribute to the company’s growth. If you are chosen to join SmithStreet you will:
- Work together with industry experts on a wide range of projects for top clients
- Benefit from our insight gained from years of experience and our training to acquire the skills and knowledge needed to launch a successful career
- Have the opportunity to travel on international business trips
- Enjoy a flexible approach to career progression and support in your professional development to enable you to fulfill your potential
OUR ETHOS
The story of David and Goliath inspires our strategy and company ethos. It is the story of how Goliath, the largest and greatest warrior of the ancient Philistines was killed by David in one-on-one combat. David was a simple shepherd boy who fired a single stone with a slingshot. Goliath was slow and weighed down by heavy armor; David is brandishing a deadly weapon that he can use from a far distance and because he has no armor is light and mobile. The odds often favor the underdog because they are forced to use unconventional methods and because they are willing to out-hustle the leader and do things their opponents are not willing to do.
What advantages does SmithStreet have? We are small and mobile; we built this company in China for our clients to succeed in China; and we have grown up in a world where the internet has changed the way that information is collected and disseminated. The giants of the consulting industry have built up huge stores of intellectual capital. But intellectual capital in China depreciates quickly. Old ideas may equate to heavy armor.
Clay Christensen, of the Innovator’s Dilemma, argues that the consulting industry is in the process of disruption because big consulting firms are chasing big clients with big problems, whilst ignoring smaller projects that is taken on by smaller firms, who develop techniques in these less profitable areas that they later use to compete on bigger projects.
We don’t have a fancy office or business cards that have a brand name big company that your uncle has heard of. But what we do have is heart and a goal to do something that seems impossible.
And if you join, bring some stones.
Ready to join SmithStreet?
Or email us directly at recruiting@smithstreetsolutions.com
Job Descriptions:
- Understand the nature of the client’s needs in context and lead the research team in structuring the problem, business modeling, and formulating the appropriate business solution
- Be responsible for project planning, monitoring of effort and timelines, and building industry knowledge within the research team
- Manage the team to conduct in-depth interviews with various respondents, key opinion leaders, and high level personnel across a variety of industries
- Construct and develop effective client presentations and deliverables in PowerPoint and Excel
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or above.
- Working experience in research or consulting firm will be a plus.
- Excellent command of English (both spoken and written)
- Independent and strong logical thinking, creative, analytical skill and detail-oriented
- Strong communication skills, hardworking, willing to learn, flexible and a good team player
- Understand the nature of the client’s needs in context and lead the research team in structuring the problem, business modeling, and formulating the appropriate business solution
- Be responsible for project planning, monitoring of effort and timelines, and building industry knowledge within the research team
- Manage the team to conduct in-depth interviews with various respondents, key opinion leaders, and high level personnel across a variety of industries
- Deliver client presentations (for proposal or report) in a highly confident & professional manner.
- Communicate the project status to Manager in charge (e.g. red flags, points of pivot for recommendations, etc)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree or above.
- Excellent command of English (both spoken and written)
- At least 2 years of work experience in consulting industry.
- Independent and strong logical thinking, creative, analytical skill and detail-oriented.
- Strong communication skills, hardworking, willing to learn, flexible and a good team player.
- Lead project teams to provide strategic consulting services in project design, supervision, and analysis to ensure meaningful and value-added findings are generated from projects
- Understand client needs and business context of client work, e.g., market entry, expansion, customer segmentation, distribution etc.
- Generate insights and recommendations to impact clients’ strategic decision making
- Deliver client presentations (for proposal or report) in a highly confident & professional manner
- Communicate the project status to the Partner in charge
- Maintain close relationships with clients to enhance trust level and to explore further business opportunities.
- Manage the team, including team planning, team building, recruitment, motivation, training, and team member career plan and performance review.
- Undertake sales activities independently or in conjunction with senior staff in terms of preparation and delivery of proposal and credentials
Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree or above.
- At least 5 years’ experience in consulting industry.
- Strong client focus and pro-activeness
- Very good influencing, persuading and project management skills
- Fluency in written and spoken English is a must, Chinese language skills preferred.
- Independent, strong critical thinking and analytical skills and detail-oriented
- Strong personal qualities including great attitude, entrepreneurial spirit, ability to lead and develop a research team, detail-oriented and openness to learn.
- Experience in moderating focus group discussions and in-depth interviews.
- Understand team needs and business context of team work.
- Conduct industry research and company research, both primary and secondary.
- Data collecting and analyzing base on the projects.
- Deliver high quality client work in PowerPoint presentations and translated documents.
- Coordinate activities with the team leader.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or above.
- Working experience in research or consulting firm will be a plus.
- Strong communication skills, flexible and highly socialized.
- Excellent command of English both spoken and written.
- Independent and strong logical thinking, analytical skill and detail-oriented.
- Strong personal qualities including: great attitude, openness to learn and good team player.
