You Are:
If you love solving challenges and not just studying them, then Accenture Strategy & Consulting is the right place for you. Join us to develop your ideas into provocative points of view and transformative insights that help shape industries. You'll work with an amazing and diverse mix of world-class experts with access to one of the most robust portfolios of capabilities and ecosystem relationships in the industry. Together, you'll do so much more than consult.

The Work:
Coming here means future-proofing your career and going as far as your ambition takes you. Becoming a tech-savvy, well-rounded, multi-disciplined and market-relevant advisor doesn't happen by chance. We invest in training and development in a big way, so you can build your future along with ours, creating an impactful career unique to you. Ultimately, we believe we is greater than me and that diverse perspectives lead to the best solutions. Joining Accenture means you will learn, innovate and lead, and together we will improve the way the world works and lives.

People in Strategy & Consulting drive profitable growth by developing market-relevant insights to increase market share or create new markets. They progress through required promotion into market-facing roles that have a direct impact on sales. Management Consulting professionals design and implement process and change interventions that integrate strategy, technology and people to enable process improvements that create value for clients.

People in our Public Service group serve an array of clients across state and local government, non-profit, and educational industries.

The Public Service Principal Director is experienced in delivering programmatic, operational, and organization design, transformation and service delivery in performance and outcome improvements. The Principal Director will also design and implement business changes that drive industry-specific, function and digital operating model transformation, focusing on tasks relating to people and process.

Ability to travel 75%.

Here's What You Need:
- A minimum of 12 years of high value consulting experience
- A minimum of 12 years of public service experience

- A minimum of 7 years of experience leading workstreams and meeting deadlines
- A minimum of 7 years of large-scale delivery experience with minimal help

Bonus Points If:
- You have a bachelor's degree

- You have experience bringing innovative ideas to projects

- Industry Strategy and Consulting experts and thought leaders with proven transformation delivery experience and client development experience

- Experience with public speaking, publications, trade journal coverage or trade association coverage.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/05/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $163,000 to $434,000
Colorado $163,000 to $375,000
Connecticut $163,000 to $375,000
District of Columbia $173,500 to $399,300
Illinois $150,900 to $375,000
Maine $138,800 to $319,400
Maryland $163,000 to $375,000
Massachusetts $163,000 to $399,300
Minnesota $163,000 to $375,000
New York $150,900 to $434,000
New Jersey $173,500 to $434,000
Ohio $150,900 to $347,200
Virginia $150,900 to $399,300
Washington $173,500 to $399,300