Capability Architect Performance Consulting | Onsite Princeton, NJ | Open to local US-based candidates only

Logistics

This is a full-time fully onsite role based in Princeton NJ with travel to client sites as needed. Candidates must live within commuting distance of Princeton or be willing to relocate. This is not a remote or hybrid position.

About the Role

Were hiring a Capability Architect to embed inside client organizations and run a complete capability-development cycle: define the skill gap build a targeted solution support practice in the flow of work and measure the result with a number a CFO would sign off on. You wont hand off a deck and walk away. Youll own the outcome.

This is a solo-practitioner role to start. Youll run your first engagement independently then help train the practitioners who join after you.

What youll do

• Embed with a client team and diagnose real performance problems not just training requests

• Run capability-gap analyses and translate business problems into measurable proficiency targets

• Own the full cycle: baseline build practice measure adapt

• Design learning interventions (programs job aids workflow tools) using AI tools to move faster

• Work alongside the clients existing L&D team as a partner and leave it stronger than you found it

• Build credibility with director-level business stakeholders not just L&D contacts

• At least one full cycle of taking a performance problem from analysis to a measured outcome without a large team behind you

• Comfort being judged by a number not a survey score

• Credibility with director-level (or above) business stakeholders

• Strong needs-analysis instincts: the ability to turn a vague complaint into a measurable target

• Working knowledge of or the ability to quickly build fluency in one industry vertical (for example: pharmaceuticals and life sciences banking and financial services energy manufacturing or technology)

• Comfort using AI tools to accelerate your work and the judgment to know when to override them

• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience

If youve spent your career proving your work moved a number and youd rather build something than maintain it we want to hear from you.