Associate

Portage Point Partners is a Chicago-headquartered advisory, interim management and investment banking firm focused on serving the middle-market. Backed by New Mountain Capital, the firm has grown at over 30% annually since its founding in 2016 and today operates from ten offices across the United States.

The firm delivers integrated financial and operational solutions across Transaction Advisory Services, Transaction Execution Services, Office of the CFO, Valuations, Performance Improvement, Turnaround & Restructuring and Investment Banking. Engagement teams are lean and execution-oriented, working directly with senior stakeholders to navigate complex transitions and transformations.

Triple P India (TPI) is a strategic extension of the firm’s platform, established to build a high-quality team that operates as an integrated part of U.S.-based teams. Professionals in TPI are involved in live engagements from the outset, contributing to analysis, execution and client deliverables in coordination with colleagues across the firm. The platform is designed to provide meaningful responsibility, direct exposure to senior leadership and long-term growth in a high-performance environment.

The Senior Associate, AI Solutions role at Portage Point represents a unique opportunity to contribute to the development and deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions that transform how the firm delivers consulting and advisory services. This Senior Associate will work within the AI Solutions team to build, test and iterate on agentic AI workflows and automation tools, translating consulting frameworks into scalable AI-driven products. This person will work closely with the Vice President, AI Solutions, collaborating across practice lines to deliver measurable impact. If you are eager to apply your technical skills in a high-performance, fast-paced consulting environment, this is the right role for you.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy AI-powered solutions, agentic workflows and automation tools that support financial and operational advisory and operational excellence
• Build, test and iterate on large language model (LLM) integrations, prompt engineering strategies and AI pipeline components to deliver reliable and scalable outputs
• Use AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code) to accelerate development, automate repetitive tasks and produce well-structured, maintainable code
• Collaborate with data science, product and delivery teams to translate business requirements and consulting methodologies into functional AI prototypes and production-ready solutions
• Support data pipeline development, model evaluation and quality assurance to ensure AI solutions meet performance, reliability and compliance standards
• Conduct research on emerging AI tools, platforms and techniques and bring forward actionable recommendations