Description and RequirementsJob Description
Title: Client Partner - Financial Services (Director or Senior Director), Pacific Northwest
Slalom's Financial Services Portfolio team is seeking a seasoned Client Partner to lead and grow strategic relationships across the Pacific Northwest financial services accounts. This individual will serve as a trusted advisor to banking, insurance, wealth and asset management, payments, and other financial services organizations, driving business transformation, technology modernization, and consulting excellence. The Client Partner will build and execute targeted account a strategies, foster deep executive relationships, and ensure delivery of high-impact solutions. Successful candidates thrive in a people-based culture and are passionate about growing client relationships, creating measurable business value, and expanding Slalom's brand within complex, highly regulated environments.
What You'll Do
- Own and grow a $5-10M+ portfolio of financial services clients, with accountability for revenue growth, profitability, and long-term portfolio health.
- Serve as the senior relationship owner, building trusted partnerships with C-level and executive stakeholders across business, technology, data, risk, operations, and customer functions.
- Define and execute account and industry strategy, identifying new opportunities across Slalom's full portfolio of business and technology solutions, including strategy, cloud, data, AI, customer experience, and enterprise platforms.
- Lead complex sales pursuits end-to-end, including opportunity shaping, proposals, Consulting Services Agreements and SOWs, commercial negotiations, and executive presentations.
- Provide executive oversight for engagements, ensuring delivery excellence, strong client satisfaction, sound risk management, and alignment to measurable business outcomes. Role has an individual utilization target of approximately 40% for Director level, and 20% for Senior Director.
- Partner closely with Sales, Capabilities, industry leaders, and strategic technology partners such as Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, and other ecosystem partners to bring relevant, integrated solutions to financial services clients.
- Build and mentor high-performing, cross-functional account teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, financial services expertise, and professional growth.
- Represent Slalom in the Pacific Northwest financial services community and drive participation in relevant industry, client, and market events.
What You'll Bring
- Deep passion for client leadership, consulting, and sales, with a proven track record of growing financial services accounts and delivering high-impact business and technology solutions.
- Extensive experience in a consulting leadership role, ideally within a business and technology consulting firm, with the ability to lead strategic client engagements, drive profitable growth, and manage cross-functional delivery teams.
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise-level relationships within financial services, including account strategy, solution development, executive stakeholder management, and portfolio financial accountability.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and build trust across senior client stakeholders and internal teams.
- Proven ability to align teams toward common goals, model strong people management skills, and foster a collaborative, high-performance culture.
- Skilled at navigating complex solution sales and delivery cycles in regulated environments, including modernization, data and AI, customer experience, risk and compliance, operating model, and technology transformation initiatives.
- Experience working with financial services organizations, with a strong understanding of industry business models, regulatory and risk considerations, market trends, and transformation priorities. Existing Pacific Northwest financial services relationships are strongly preferred.
Compensation and Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges:
Seattle, WA
- Director: $179,000 to $260,000
- Senior Director: $203,000 to $285,000
Portland, OR
- Director: $164,000 to $226,000
- Senior Director: $186,000 to $270,000
In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: [redacted]. Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose.
