Metaculus is looking for an experienced leader from the consulting¹ world to grow our consulting practice, helping organizations use forecasting to make better decisions on critical global challenges. 

• Find the full job description and apply here.
• Start Date: As soon as possible, but with significant flexibility for the right candidate.
• Location: Global/remote (must be available during core team collaboration hours of 8 AM to 12 PM Pacific time).
• Compensation: $200-250k USD base salary plus additional performance-based compensation and company equity.
• Referral Fee: If you’re not a good fit, but know someone who is, we're offering a $3,000 referral fee (paid after 3 months of employment) for successful connections. 

Why This Role Matters

Metaculus has established itself as a leading public forecasting platform, and we've seen increasing demand from governments, NGOs, think tanks, and corporations that want to harness collective intelligence for decision-making on complex challenges. From geopolitical risk to frontier AI governance and public health preparedness, organizations are increasingly recognizing that insights from crowd forecasting can significantly improve outcomes on the issues that matter most.

This role represents an opportunity to scale that impact. You will help us translate our community's forecasting expertise into actionable insights for decision-makers while simultaneously growing a sustainable revenue stream that supports our broader mission: building epistemic infrastructure that enables the global community to model, understand, predict, and navigate the world’s most important and complex challenges.

As the Head of Consulting Services, you will develop the client pipeline, manage relationships throughout engagements, ensure high-quality deliverables, and build the team and processes to scale our impact. You'll also work closely with our product team to ensure client needs drive our software capabilities and platform improvements, creating a feedback loop that benefits both forecasters and forecast consumers.

In the short term, you'll be closing deals in our existing client pipeline while developing new opportunities, building on Metaculus's established reputation and strong inbound interest. You'll own client relationships from initial scoping through final delivery, working closely with our Forecasting Program Coordinator to deliver forecasting and analysis that changes how organizations navigate critical decisions.

As client demand grows, you'll grow both the team (expect to make your first hire within months) and the operational infrastructure to handle significantly more engagements.

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate brings:

• Proven consulting experience (5+ years at a major firm or quantitative boutique)
  • We’re looking for someone comfortable operating far beyond an individual-contributor role, owning client outcomes, P&L, and team leadership as the practice scales.
• Strong business development track record
  • Ideally, this includes experience working with a mix of government, NGO, and corporate clients.
• Project delivery excellence with experience managing complex, high-stakes engagements.
• Team building capabilities, including hiring, training, and managing junior staff.
• Comfort working across sectors from private companies to government agencies to international organizations.

This role is perfect for someone energized by hands-on client work in the near term who also has the experience to build and scale a high-performing team.

Details

• Location: Global/Remote
• Compensation: Base salary: $200-250k USD, with meaningful company equity, and performance-based compensation tailored to the role. We’re not listing all specifics because we expect the exact configuration of these elements to be highly individual to the priorities of the candidate.
• Benefits & Perks:
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Flexible hours, remote-first
  • Twice-yearly company offsites
• Process: Multi-stage interviews plus a short work trial for mutual fit assessment

Get in Touch

Apply here. We're also offering a $3,000 referral fee for anyone who connects us with our eventual hire (paid following three months of successful employment).

 ¹ "Consulting" can mean a lot of things. Directionally, we expect candidates well-suited to this role will have backgrounds in strategy, policy, or management consulting. We're looking for someone who has extensive experience working directly with executive-level decisionmakers and translating complex analysis into implementable strategies. We think this role is less suited to individuals whose consulting experience involves things like accounting, audits, IT, or implementation-focused consulting backgrounds. That said, if you come from one of these backgrounds and still think you would be an excellent fit, we encourage you to reach out.