Associate Partner AI and Digital practice in APAC

For over 25 years Dalberg has been serving those who serve the world with a mission to help clients solve the most pressing challenges of our time through systemic change.

With over 600 full-time staff spread across 27 global locations with women comprising 49% of our leadership team. Dalberg has brought global perspectives to hyper-local solutions across governments philanthropies companies and local and international NGOs.

This includes designing a USD 5 billion strategy to create 25 million jobs for youth in Africa helping shape a platform to support Indias cleantech manufacturing ambitions supporting a major restructuring of the United Nations system across eight countries and leading a 35-country effort to close childhood immunity gaps caused by COVID-19.

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Dalberg is a professional services firm that puts impact at the heart of critical decision-making.

We recognize that optimizing for social and environmental impact is a deep human science navigating a maze of behavior politics technology and culture. For over two decades we have delivered projects that take on this complexity while offering clarity that has enabled action. To deliver on our mission we are structured as a social enterprise that combines agility with purpose.

We bring the nimbleness of a for-profit firm attracting top consulting talent and working in entrepreneurial partner-led teams that adapt quickly to our clients evolving challenges. This enables us to bring the rigor and discipline of top-tier consulting. At the same time we operate with the guardrails of a for-purpose entity: our brand and intellectual property are held by an independent non-profit that ensures the Dalberg brand is only associated with optimizing for impact. This structure ensures our work remains anchored in strict impact principles. For our partners and clients this means working with an organization that shares your commitment to impact and operates with the agility needed to navigate complex and evolving challenges.

We serve those who serve the world and over the past 25 years have partnered with 1600 leading organizations across nearly all sectors and fields.

You are a global development leader and you thrive in tackling global issues from malnutrition to climate change to economic growth ensuring no population is left behind. You enjoy leading high-performing teams that drive the delivery of innovative and result-oriented solutions for clients by proposing problem-solving and creating tailored frameworks that address client challenges. You excel in solving problems using clear strategic and creative thinking and you want to put your skills to work transforming organizations that fund change around the world. You are a committed self-starter with experience as a top-performer at a leading international management consultancy firm a passion for international development and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Dalberg has a global footprint with consultants that live and work worldwide creating a network of local experience anchored by our offices in Africa Asia-Pacific Europe MENA and the Americas. Dalberg combines ground-level insight with experience from top-tier professional services firms and leading academic institutions to create actionable solutions to the worlds most pressing issues.

AboUT THE ROLE

The digital and AI transformation sweeping across the Asia-Pacific is one of the defining shifts of our time and this role puts you at the heart of it.

This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of technology and social impact advising governments the private sector multilaterals and foundations on some of the most consequential decisions in AI digital public infrastructure and data governance shaping the regions development trajectory. As AI rapidly reshapes how public services are delivered how economies grow and how marginalized communities are included or left behind Dalbergs AI & Digital Practice Area. sits at the center of that conversation. You will help define what responsible effective digital transformation looks like and build the practice that delivers it across Asia-Pacific.

We are seeking an Associate Partner with demonstrated expertise in building strategy and business in emerging technology domains within the development sector. The ideal candidate will combine strong consulting credentials with knowledge of the tech-for-good ecosystem across Asia-Pacific particularly India and South Asia.

• Strong consulting track record with demonstrated success leading and delivering high-impact consulting engagements in tech-for-good and digital development. Proven ability to translate strategy into implementation across complex development contexts.
• Ability to advise governments multilaterals the private sector and foundations on digital transformation strategies. Familiarity with policy and strategy work is preferred over deep technical expertise.
• Knowledge of AI DPI e-governance and data governance domains is useful.
• Well-established relationships and networks across the Asia-Pacific digital ecosystem with strength in India and in the technology ecosystem.
• Experience building and scaling practice areas or team initiatives. Demonstrated mentoring and team leadership capability. Passion for growing Dalbergs AI & Digital Practice Area. across Asia-Pacific while developing junior team members.
• A high degree of professionalism and credibility.
• Sensitivity to the political and cultural environment of international public agencies or similarly complex environments.
• Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical abilities.
• Ability to present information in an insightful and structured manner.
• Fluency in English; proficiency with other languages an advantage.
• Proven ability to build strong and trusting relationships with strong regional/ in-country networks preferred.
• Bachelors degree; advanced degree Masters or an MBA is a plus.

See profiles of our Associate Partners.

Associate Partners are part of Dalbergs leadership team and will be expected to sell work manage projects and develop team members. They will play a key role in developing relationships with clients and converting these relationships into work for the firm as well as leading the creation and submission of proposals. Associate Partners will provide strategic direction to consultant teams ensure quality control of project delivery and help manage client relationships as part of their project management and oversight responsibilities. They will also be expected to contribute to the professional development of junior staff by providing them with coaching and mentoring. Associate Partners also help build the firms reputation and expertise through knowledge development and thought leadership. They will build on previous private sector consulting experience and relationships to take on private sector-led solutions to development issues. Travel is expected and varies by office and project.

• Provide strategic direction to consultant teams ensure quality control of project delivery.
• Develop relationships with clients and sell projects.
• Contribute to the professional development of junior staff.
• Build the firms reputation and expertise through knowledge development and thought leadership.
• Lead client relationships on issues of strategy and management related to development.

Examples of recent projects that Dalberg consultants have worked on include creating a data strategy for one of Indias largest domestic foundations in the women and child development space developing a white paper on Indias AI sovereignty choices and trade-offs developing a macro-economic plan for the Government of Ethiopia to accelerate industrial growth conducting a feasibility study for Nepals data exchange DPI and launching a new impact investment fund for agriculture in addition Dalberg Consultants worked on creating the worlds largest public freely available dataset on national digital ID in India and have previously traveled for work to a mine in a jungle in Indonesia to refugee camps in remote parts of Kenya and to the border of Nepal looking at trafficking transport chains.

Dalberg is a platform for change. Our staff is empowered to start new programs institute best practices and develop traditions that will define the Dalberg experience for years to come. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not only valued at Dalberg; they are essential to our firms addition to providing training management-level advising and mentoring we empower consultants to learn by doing engaging them as core members of project teams from day one.

Examples of recent projects that Dalberg consultants have worked on include creating an economic plan for multiple provinces in Vietnam mapping digital public infrastructure opportunities for Bhutan Maldives Sri Lanka designing biodegradable menstrual pads for rural India and building a global alliance with governments AI firms and other stakeholders for scaling AI-driven education solutions in low- and middle-income countries. We also helped create the worlds largest public freely available dataset on national digital ID in India. Past projects have taken us to diverse geographies from a mine in the Indonesian jungle and remote tribal villages in North-East India to study solar mini grids to the Nepal border to study trafficking transport chains and the Bharat Climate Forum 2026 stage to unveil a blueprint for Indias cleantech manufacturing ambition.

About Our Clients

Our clients come to us seeking solutions to some of the worlds most complex challenges. We partner with governments foundations multilateral institutions corporations and other organizations to develop innovative solutions and create lasting impacts. Our clients have included foundations such as the Gates Foundation; corporations such as PepsiCo and Vodafone; multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank; UN agencies such as UNICEF and UNEP; and government institutions and agencies such as USAID and Indias NITI Aayog.

The current opportunities are in Mumbai / New Delhi offices.

Your application should include a resume and cover letter.

During the same recruitment period please apply for only one position at Dalberg. This position should be the best suited to your current professional experience and to your preferred location. You will have the opportunity to rank your next 2 location preferences within your application in case there are openings in other offices.

Candidates selected for interviews will be invited to interview by video. Interviews will test consulting skills through case questions and discuss the candidates interests and experience.

Dalberg values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. Qualified and interested candidates irrespective of age gender race religion background or ethnic affiliation are encouraged to apply for the vacancy.

We have also pledged to three commitments for Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) across the firm:

1. COMMITMENT 1: We commit to publishing internal Dalberg DEI reports annually to hold ourselves accountable report on progress and share lessons from our regional DEI plans.
2. COMMITMENT 2: We commit to delivering regular training for all staff (including leadership) on how to engender inclusive workplaces and mitigate unconscious bias.
3. COMMITMENT 3: We commit to addressing imbalances in how power and privilege are formally distributed and informally exercised across the firm.

Owing to the large number of applications we receive unfortunately only successful candidates will be contacted.