Management Analysts (Consultants)

$60–120/hrrate as listed

micro1 is recruiting management consultants and strategy analysts to produce and evaluate consulting-grade work — problem structuring, synthesis, Excel analysis, and executive slide decks — as training and evaluation data for AI systems. The work is remote contractor work at an observed $60–120/hr, with no prior AI experience expected.

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What the work involves

You will be handed the kind of prompt a partner might drop on an associate: a messy, under-specified business question with scattered inputs. Your job is to do the consulting work properly — frame the problem, structure it into a defensible framework, run the supporting arithmetic in Excel, and land on one or two recommendations that an executive could act on. Much of the output is a short, clean slide story rather than a long report.

A second stream of work is evaluation. You will review model-produced analyses, decks, and memos and judge them the way you would judge a junior's draft: is the issue tree actually MECE, does the so-what follow from the data, is the sizing math internally consistent, is the recommendation specific enough to be wrong? Written rationales matter more than scores — the value is in explaining why a plausible-looking deck is hollow.

What the platform screens for

Verifiable consulting background. Firm, level, industries, and the specific engagements you can describe without breaching confidentiality.
Depth under follow-up. Expect the interviewer to push on your framework choices, your assumptions, and your numbers rather than accept the first answer.
Judgment about quality. Whether you can articulate the difference between a competent deck and an impressive-sounding one, and hold that standard consistently across many samples.
Craft. Slide logic, headline writing, and comfort with Excel-level quantitative work.

Logistics

Fully remote and largely asynchronous, structured as contractor work on a customer project. Most contributors commit somewhere between 10 and 25 hours a week and choose their own hours, with occasional synchronous check-ins with project leads for calibration and deliverable review. Pay in the $60–120/hr range has been observed on this listing; actual rates depend on seniority, task type, and project stage, and are not guaranteed.

What they look for

Structuring a business problem
Building executive-ready slides
Basic quantitative analysis in Excel
Synthesizing scattered information into a recommendation
executive communication in a remote environment

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

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Have you held a role where your primary responsibility was analyzing business problems and developing strategic recommendations (e.g., strategy analyst, management consultant, business analyst, operations consultant, or equivalent)?
Strategy or management consulting background · required
Have you independently built PowerPoint presentations for senior executives or C-suite audiences?
Executive presentation experience · required
Are you comfortable using Excel to perform basic data analysis—including functions, pivot tables, or simple formulas to answer business questions?
Excel proficiency · preferred
Do you have at least 6 months of experience working on a project or role that was fully remote?
Remote work experience · preferred

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Interview prep — 12 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Can they actually synthesize ambiguous data into narrative structure, or do they just reorganize what's already clear? Do they show the sensemaking process—not just the output?
A strong answer: Name a specific situation with scattered inputs (conflicting data, multiple stakeholder views, incomplete context), describe your systematic approach to finding signal, and explain how you framed the insight so a decision-maker could act immediately.
Where people lose it: Describing a situation that was already well-structured ('I organized the spreadsheet') or focusing on the presentation format rather than the intellectual work of making sense of chaos.