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Grant Thornton is seeking a Solution Development Associate Director to join the team. Approved office locations can be found below. 

The Solution Development Associate Director is responsible for advancing Grant Thornton's gotomarket effectiveness by developing and enabling AIinformed, clientcentric solutions that improve seller confidence and increase win rates. Positioned within the Sales Excellence team, this role focuses on the tools, resources, and materials that translate GT's capabilities-particularly AIenabled and technologyforward offerings-into clear, differentiated, and salesready solutions.

This leader brings strong commercial judgment, structure, and a modern solution mindset to ensure sellers are equipped with practical, highimpact resources aligned to GT's growth priorities and how clients expect to buy today.

Key Responsibilities

AIEnabled Solution & Offering Development

• Lead the development of solution frameworks, playbooks, pitch content, and proposal assets that incorporate AIenabled capabilities, data insights, and technology accelerators where relevant.
• Partner with Advisory, Tax, and Audit leaders to shape marketready solutions that demonstrate how AI and advanced analytics improve client outcomes.
• Translate complex offerings into clear value propositions, use cases, and outcomedriven narratives that resonate with executive buyers.
• Ensure solutions are designed to be repeatable, scalable, and configurable, enabling faster pursuit execution.

Sales Tools, Resources & Enablement

• Own a portfolio of selling tools and resources, including solution overviews, value stories, demos or exemplars, proposal modules, and guidance that supports AIenabled selling.
• Establish and apply quality and usability standards so materials are intuitive, actionable, and easy for sellers to apply in live pursuits.
• Partner with Marketing, Sales and Solution Leaders to ensure materials are wellgoverned, accessible, current, and embedded in GT sales workflows and platforms.
• Continuously refine tools based on seller feedback, win/loss insights, and pipeline trends.

Win Rate & Commercial Effectiveness Focus

• Design solution assets specifically to improve differentiation, clarity of value, and pursuit confidence, with a direct line of sight to win rate improvement.
• Identify gaps across the sales lifecycle where AIenabled insights, tools, or guidance would meaningfully improve selling effectiveness.
• Support priority pursuits, strategic accounts, and firm initiatives with tailored solution content and advisory partnership as needed.

CrossFunctional Leadership & Governance

• Act as a trusted partner to Sales Excellence leadership, CREs, and PMDs in shaping and advancing GT's solution narrative.
• Facilitate alignment across service lines, Sales Excellence, and Marketing to accelerate solution readiness and time to market.
• Help define and reinforce solution governance, including intake, prioritization, refresh cadence, and ownership models.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in professional services, consulting, solution development, sales enablement, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience enabling complex, multidisciplinary solutions, ideally incorporating AI, technology, or datadriven capabilities.
• Strong understanding of professional services selling, pursuit dynamics, and executivelevel client expectations.
• Proven ability to influence across matrixed teams and balance strategic thinking with handson execution.

Key Skills & Attributes

• Strong ability to synthesize complexity into clear, compelling, salesready solution narratives.
• Commercially minded with a focus on measurable outcomes and impact.
• Comfortable operating in evolving environments, including emerging AI and technology use cases.
• Highly collaborative, organized, and disciplined; able to manage competing priorities and stakeholders.
• Executive presence with the credibility to partner with senior leaders and sellers.

The base salary range for this position is between $144,000 and $233,280. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton's discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job -related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result - for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more: more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It's what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better. 
In the U.S., Grant Thornton delivers professional services through two specialized entities: Grant Thornton LLP, a licensed, certified public accounting (CPA) firm that provides audit and assurance services - and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (not a licensed CPA firm), which exclusively provides non-attest offerings, including tax and advisory services.
In 2025, Grant Thornton formed a multinational, multidisciplinary platform with Grant Thornton Ireland. The platform offers a premier Trans-Atlantic advisory and tax practice, as well as independent American and Irish audit practices. With $2.7 billion in revenues and more than 50 offices spanning the U.S., Ireland and other territories, the platform delivers a singular client experience that includes enhanced solutions and capabilities, backed by powerful technologies and a roster of 12,000 quality-driven professionals enjoying exceptional career-growth opportunities and a distinctive cross-border culture.
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