Consultant Jobs in California
Consultant jobs in California are among the most active in the country, concentrated in management, technology, strategy, and environmental consulting across a broad range of seniority levels from analyst to principal. The largest hiring markets are Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, where established firms such as Deloitte, McKinsey and Company, and KPMG maintain significant California operations. The most in-demand specialties include IT and digital transformation consulting, environmental and sustainability consulting, and financial and operational strategy. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Native Performance Marketing Lead - Consulting
Our Company
Strand Marketing is a boutique digital marketing consultancy focusing on performance-based media buying, and strategic client services. We work with huge, billion-dollar brands, and up-and-coming start-ups. Our expertise in media strategy, marketing operations, and the consumer journey has positioned us uniquely to provide significant growth for our partners. In just over two years, our company has achieved remarkable success, and our team has more than doubled in size. We are continuing to grow at a rapid pace and are looking to add to our team right away.
The Role
Strand is hiring a Native Performance Marketing Lead to make native advertising work for our brand clients from the first impression to conversion. This is not a buying-only role: you will own the full native funnel, including the ad, advertorial or interstitial, and landing page that converts readers into leads or customers.
Taboola is our core native platform, but we need someone who understands what happens after the click, can build a repeatable approach across clients, and can demonstrate value beyond last-click attribution. You will partner with media, account, creative, and analytics teams.
Your Role
- Plan, launch, and optimize native campaigns across Taboola, Outbrain, Yahoo, Nexxen, and similar platforms; manage bids, budgets, pacing, publisher lists, and placements against CPA, CPL, ROAS, and downstream conversion goals.
- Take ownership of campaign performance and scaling; proactively identify issues and opportunities rather than waiting for instructions.
- Diagnose changes in delivery and conversion efficiency, including creative fatigue, audience saturation, device, geographic, and daypart performance.
- Write and test headlines and thumbnails; create or direct advertorials, listicles, quizzes, and other pre-sell experiences aligned with each brand’s voice and sponsored-content requirements.
- Build and optimize mobile-first landing pages and lead forms using page builders such as Unbounce, Instapage, or Leadpages, with minimal developer support.
- Run structured tests across ad creative, devices, geographies, dayparts, pre-sell experiences, and landing pages to improve CVR and acquisition efficiency.
- Implement and maintain conversion tracking, including pixels, server-side events, UTMs, and GA4, with analytics support where appropriate.
- Report on in-session and assisted conversions alongside last-click results; collaborate with analytics on attribution and incrementality testing.
- Communicate performance and test results to clients and internal teams through clear storytelling, data-supported impact projections, and thoughtful budget or scaling recommendations.
- Build reusable advertorial and landing-page approaches and share native performance learnings with the broader team.
What we are looking for
- Approximately 3–5 years of relevant performance marketing experience, including recent hands-on direct-response campaign management. Current platform experience matters more than experience several roles ago.
- Recent Taboola or Outbrain direct-response expertise is the strongest fit. Exceptional DV360 or The Trade Desk buyers may be considered with evidence of acquisition-focused optimization and full-funnel conversion ownership. General impression- or reach-focused programmatic experience alone is not sufficient.
- Quantifiable examples of improving CVR, CPA, CPL, or downstream customer outcomes; ability to explain specific tests, optimizations, and results.
- Experience owning meaningful media budgets, ideally hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, including pacing, performance, scaling, and incremental budget recommendations.
- Agency or comparable multi-client experience, with strong client-facing communication and the ability to explain recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- A portfolio of advertorials, pre-sell pages, interstitials, and landing pages created or directed, with measurable results.
- Direct-response copywriting skills, page-builder proficiency, and sufficient HTML/CSS familiarity to make updates without extensive developer support.
- Working knowledge of pixels, conversion APIs or server-side tracking, UTMs, GA4, attribution, and sponsored-content compliance.
- Proactive judgment, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to support evidence-based forecasts and business recommendations.
Nice to have:
- Experience with insurance, financial services, or medical/healthcare clients.
- AI fluency and practical use of AI tools in performance marketing workflows.
- Experience with Meta, Google Demand Gen, or other paid channels and how native complements them.
- Figma or similar design tools, CRO tools, A/B testing platforms, and holdout or geo-incrementality tests.
Why Join Strand:
Help build a scalable native performance capability for a growing client roster. You will have the opportunity to shape testing, creative, conversion experiences, and client outcomes while working closely with Strand’s media, creative, and analytics teams.
Hybrid Work Environment
This role is required to be in person at our beautiful, fully stocked Hermosa Beach location Tuesday-Thursday each week.
Your Benefits
- This is a consulting engagement. Approximately 15–20 hours per week initially. For the right, successful and motivated candidate this can become a full time opportunity with potential to expand in scope and impact.
- Pay Transparency - The rate is approximately $70–$100 per hour based on experience and qualifications.
- Health insurance, including comprehensive medical, dental & vision package available immediately
- 401K with company match
- Half-days on Fridays, all year round
To Apply:
If this is the right fit for you, apply. To further the process email your resume and examples of relevant campaigns, advertorials, or landing pages to careers@strandmc.com.
Fun, energizing and fast-paced work environment.
Pay: $70.00 - $100.00 per hour
Expected hours: 15.0 – 20.0 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Experience:
- Relevant Performance Marketing : 3 years (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
Native Performance Marketing Lead - Consulting
Our Company
Strand Marketing is a boutique digital marketing consultancy focusing on performance-based media buying, and strategic client services. We work with huge, billion-dollar brands, and up-and-coming start-ups. Our expertise in media strategy, marketing operations, and the consumer journey has positioned us uniquely to provide significant growth for our partners. In just over two years, our company has achieved remarkable success, and our team has more than doubled in size. We are continuing to grow at a rapid pace and are looking to add to our team right away.
The Role
Strand is hiring a Native Performance Marketing Lead to make native advertising work for our brand clients from the first impression to conversion. This is not a buying-only role: you will own the full native funnel, including the ad, advertorial or interstitial, and landing page that converts readers into leads or customers.
Taboola is our core native platform, but we need someone who understands what happens after the click, can build a repeatable approach across clients, and can demonstrate value beyond last-click attribution. You will partner with media, account, creative, and analytics teams.
Your Role
- Plan, launch, and optimize native campaigns across Taboola, Outbrain, Yahoo, Nexxen, and similar platforms; manage bids, budgets, pacing, publisher lists, and placements against CPA, CPL, ROAS, and downstream conversion goals.
- Take ownership of campaign performance and scaling; proactively identify issues and opportunities rather than waiting for instructions.
- Diagnose changes in delivery and conversion efficiency, including creative fatigue, audience saturation, device, geographic, and daypart performance.
- Write and test headlines and thumbnails; create or direct advertorials, listicles, quizzes, and other pre-sell experiences aligned with each brand’s voice and sponsored-content requirements.
- Build and optimize mobile-first landing pages and lead forms using page builders such as Unbounce, Instapage, or Leadpages, with minimal developer support.
- Run structured tests across ad creative, devices, geographies, dayparts, pre-sell experiences, and landing pages to improve CVR and acquisition efficiency.
- Implement and maintain conversion tracking, including pixels, server-side events, UTMs, and GA4, with analytics support where appropriate.
- Report on in-session and assisted conversions alongside last-click results; collaborate with analytics on attribution and incrementality testing.
- Communicate performance and test results to clients and internal teams through clear storytelling, data-supported impact projections, and thoughtful budget or scaling recommendations.
- Build reusable advertorial and landing-page approaches and share native performance learnings with the broader team.
What we are looking for
- Approximately 3–5 years of relevant performance marketing experience, including recent hands-on direct-response campaign management. Current platform experience matters more than experience several roles ago.
- Recent Taboola or Outbrain direct-response expertise is the strongest fit. Exceptional DV360 or The Trade Desk buyers may be considered with evidence of acquisition-focused optimization and full-funnel conversion ownership. General impression- or reach-focused programmatic experience alone is not sufficient.
- Quantifiable examples of improving CVR, CPA, CPL, or downstream customer outcomes; ability to explain specific tests, optimizations, and results.
- Experience owning meaningful media budgets, ideally hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, including pacing, performance, scaling, and incremental budget recommendations.
- Agency or comparable multi-client experience, with strong client-facing communication and the ability to explain recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- A portfolio of advertorials, pre-sell pages, interstitials, and landing pages created or directed, with measurable results.
- Direct-response copywriting skills, page-builder proficiency, and sufficient HTML/CSS familiarity to make updates without extensive developer support.
- Working knowledge of pixels, conversion APIs or server-side tracking, UTMs, GA4, attribution, and sponsored-content compliance.
- Proactive judgment, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to support evidence-based forecasts and business recommendations.
Nice to have:
- Experience with insurance, financial services, or medical/healthcare clients.
- AI fluency and practical use of AI tools in performance marketing workflows.
- Experience with Meta, Google Demand Gen, or other paid channels and how native complements them.
- Figma or similar design tools, CRO tools, A/B testing platforms, and holdout or geo-incrementality tests.
Why Join Strand:
Help build a scalable native performance capability for a growing client roster. You will have the opportunity to shape testing, creative, conversion experiences, and client outcomes while working closely with Strand’s media, creative, and analytics teams.
Hybrid Work Environment
This role is required to be in person at our beautiful, fully stocked Hermosa Beach location Tuesday-Thursday each week.
Your Benefits
- This is a consulting engagement. Approximately 15–20 hours per week initially. For the right, successful and motivated candidate this can become a full time opportunity with potential to expand in scope and impact.
- Pay Transparency - The rate is approximately $70–$100 per hour based on experience and qualifications.
- Health insurance, including comprehensive medical, dental & vision package available immediately
- 401K with company match
- Half-days on Fridays, all year round
To Apply:
If this is the right fit for you, apply. To further the process email your resume and examples of relevant campaigns, advertorials, or landing pages to careers@strandmc.com.
Fun, energizing and fast-paced work environment.
Pay: $70.00 - $100.00 per hour
Expected hours: 15.0 – 20.0 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Experience:
- Relevant Performance Marketing : 3 years (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
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Where California roles are concentrated, by current openings.
Consultant Job Market in California
A snapshot from current California openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Victra-Verizon Authorized Retailer16
- Wells Fargo14
- AT&T13
- Kaiser Permanente11
- CarMax8
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Retail
- Automotive
- Staffing & Recruiting
What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in consultant jobs across California.
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, finance, or a closely related field required
- Relevant California industry experience in technology, healthcare, finance, or government sectors
- Demonstrated project management skills with exposure to client-facing engagements
- Proficiency with data analysis tools, enterprise software, or industry-standard consulting frameworks
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for presenting findings to California clients
- Advanced degree such as an MBA preferred for senior or strategy-focused consultant roles
Consultant Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a consultant in California?
Most consultant roles in California require at minimum a bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as business administration, engineering, information systems, or finance. For specialized areas, additional credentials matter: management consultants often pursue an MBA, environmental consultants may need registration with California's Department of Toxic Substances Control, and IT consultants benefit from vendor certifications. Building a portfolio of project work or obtaining a Project Management Professional credential strengthens candidacy across most sectors.
Which companies hire consultants in California?
Companies currently hiring consultants in California include Victra-Verizon Authorized Retailer, Wells Fargo, and AT&T, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. California's concentration of technology, healthcare, and public-sector clients means demand stays consistent across both global consulting firms and specialized regional boutiques.
Which California cities have the most consultant jobs?
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego account for the largest share of consultant openings in California. Los Angeles draws volume from entertainment, healthcare, and government clients, San Francisco and the broader Bay Area are anchored by technology and venture-backed companies, and San Diego's defense contractors and life sciences sector support steady consulting demand. Smaller hubs reflect the industries dominant in their regions rather than population size alone.
Are there remote consultant jobs in California?
Yes, and more than most fields. Consulting work is heavily deliverable-based and client-facing on a project cadence, which makes it well-suited to remote and hybrid arrangements. About 59% of consultant openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, reflecting how widely distributed California's client base is. Strategy, IT, and financial consulting roles are the most likely to offer location flexibility, while on-site engagements are more common in environmental, construction, and healthcare settings.
How can I get hired as a consultant in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is targeting analyst or associate consultant programs at large firms with California offices, where new graduates from California universities are actively recruited. Deloitte, Accenture, and KPMG run structured entry-level cohorts out of their Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. Candidates without direct consulting experience can also move laterally from roles in finance, operations, or project coordination. A relevant internship, a case-competition portfolio, or a PMP or Six Sigma certification gives early-career candidates a measurable edge in California screening processes.
Where can I find and apply to consultant jobs in California?
You can find and apply to consultant jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current California openings across industries and experience levels. Find roles that fit your background and apply directly without creating an account or signing up.
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