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Onboarding Consultant jobs are open across HR technology, enterprise software, financial services, and healthcare, from entry-level associates to senior consultants, with specializations in HRIS implementation, employee experience, and client training. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Customer SuccessFull TimeOntarioRemote$70,000 - $80,000 CAD per year
Job Type: Full-time
Role Type: Permanent
Location: Remote, Canada
Compensation: $70,000-80,000 CAD base salary
About us
ACTO is an Intelligent Field Excellence (IFE) platform built for life sciences that unifies human intelligence with Empathetic AI to help Sales, Medical, Market Access, and Marketing teams improve customer engagement and brand performance. With ACTO, biopharma companies can ensure field professionals are always competent, confident, and credible in face-to-face HCP (healthcare professional) interactions As a validated platform compliant with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and SOC 2 Type II certified, ACTO is the trusted partner for intelligent field excellence in the life sciences industry.
Role Overview
In this expanded role, you will lead end-to-end implementations of ACTO Omnichannel across Pharmaceutical and Biotech organizations. You will operate as both a trusted onboarding strategist and the primary project manager, responsible for guiding customers through implementation, ensuring cross-functional alignment, maintaining project governance, and driving successful go-lives.
Your blended responsibilities allow for a seamless experience for clients, combining ACTO platform expertise, onboarding best practices, and a structured project management approach to deliver measurable value.
What you’ll do
Implementation & Customer Enablement
- Lead the implementation of ACTO Omnichannel capabilities for Established & Emerging Pharmaceutical companies, as well as Enterprise and SMB MedTech companies.
- Understand the customer’s goals, success criteria, and strategic vision for ACTO, and develop a clear & achievable implementation plan.
- Confidently provide product demonstrations and guidance, including ACTO’s AI-enabled capabilities and appropriate use cases, to ensure stakeholder buy‑in ahead of go‑live.
- Build strong relationships with customers by equipping them with the knowledge, tools, and confidence needed for long‑term adoption and success.
- Coach clients on strategies for running a successful launch and sustaining adoption.
- Work cross-functionally to improve implementation strategies, processes, and best practices, including identifying repeatable workflows that can be enhanced or automated through AI.
- Provide structured feedback to Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to reduce friction and enhance the implementation experience.
Project Planning & Governance
- Own the creation, maintenance, and communication of the project plan, including scope, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and roles/responsibilities; leverage AI tools to strengthen planning, sequencing, risk identification, and prioritization.
- Lead all communications and sessions, ensuring all stakeholders understand objectives, deliverables, and success metrics; use AI-generated meeting notes, including Zoom AI notes, to support pre-call planning, prepare and send client agendas in advance, capture decisions and action items, and send timely follow-up emails.
- Maintain clear responsibility mapping for complex implementations.
- Facilitate regular project governance meetings with client stakeholders and ACTO leadership, as required.
Execution & Cross‑Functional Coordination
- Coordinate tasks across Product, Data, Engineering, Sales, Services, and Customer Success teams to ensure seamless execution, as needed.
- Track deliverables, dependencies, risks, and blockers, escalating strategically to maintain project momentum.
- Ensure internal teams are aligned and informed of project status, upcoming needs, and customer expectations.
- Lead change management discussions when customer‑side scope, timelines, or requirements shift.
- Use approved AI tools, including ACTO AI and, where authorized, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other platforms, to streamline repetitive administrative work, improve efficiency, and create capacity for higher-value client and project activities.
Risk, Issue & Change Management
- Proactively identify potential risks and challenges during implementation.
- Develop and communicate mitigation plans to both clients and internal teams.
- Maintain a change log and ensure stakeholders approve adjustments to scope or timelines.
- Resolve both forecasted and unexpected issues, ensuring minimal disruption to the project schedule.
Documentation & Reporting
- Ensure thorough project tracking via Wrike, using AI-generated meeting notes and summaries where appropriate to capture deadlines, decisions, action items, interactions, risks, and project progression.
- Maintain up-to-date project status reports, dashboards, timelines, and client-facing materials for stakeholders and internal teams via Wrike, using AI tools to improve consistency, structure, and formatting while validating outputs for accuracy and completeness.
- Ensure customer data privacy and security standards are followed throughout implementation, including when using AI tools and AI-generated content.
- Provide structured handoffs to Customer Success Team post‑launch with complete and accurate documentation.
Critical Competencies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complexity.
- Exceptional project management and organizational skills, including the ability to leverage AI to improve planning, prioritization, and execution.
- Business empathy to foster deep, consultative relationships with clients.
- Ability to manage multiple projects in fast‑paced and dynamic environments.
- Attention to detail and a strong sense of accountability.
- Demonstrated resourcefulness and problem-solving ability, with sound judgment in selecting, prompting, and validating AI tools for the task at hand.
- Eagerness to learn and continuously improve both team and customer outcomes, including staying current on evolving AI capabilities and sharing practical best practices with the team.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity to create project structure where needed.
- Working knowledge of generative AI and agentic AI, including when and how to use each appropriately and the ability to build simple AI agents or workflows to support individual productivity and recurring tasks.
What you’ll enjoy about ACTO
- Industry-leading, multiple award-winning technology;
- Competitive compensation package;
- Being part of a mission driven organization with the ability to drive solutions that focus on improving patient outcomes;
- Joining a results-driven and collaborative culture;
- Remote work with opportunities for in-person collaboration;
- Company MacBook;
- Budget for work-from-home set-up;
- Monthly work-from-home allowance;
- Flex hours (overlapping with our core hours);
- Participation in group benefits plan;
- Flexible PTO.
At ACTO, we believe diverse and inclusive teams perform better. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to working with applicants requesting accommodations during our interview process.
We may use AI-powered tools during parts of our hiring process to help review applications and support candidate communication. These tools are designed to assist our team, but all final hiring decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers. If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please let us know. We thank everyone for their interest in ACTO. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
Customer SuccessFull TimeOntarioRemote$70,000 - $80,000 CAD per year
Job Type: Full-time
Role Type: Permanent
Location: Remote, Canada
Compensation: $70,000-80,000 CAD base salary
About us
ACTO is an Intelligent Field Excellence (IFE) platform built for life sciences that unifies human intelligence with Empathetic AI to help Sales, Medical, Market Access, and Marketing teams improve customer engagement and brand performance. With ACTO, biopharma companies can ensure field professionals are always competent, confident, and credible in face-to-face HCP (healthcare professional) interactions As a validated platform compliant with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and SOC 2 Type II certified, ACTO is the trusted partner for intelligent field excellence in the life sciences industry.
Role Overview
In this expanded role, you will lead end-to-end implementations of ACTO Omnichannel across Pharmaceutical and Biotech organizations. You will operate as both a trusted onboarding strategist and the primary project manager, responsible for guiding customers through implementation, ensuring cross-functional alignment, maintaining project governance, and driving successful go-lives.
Your blended responsibilities allow for a seamless experience for clients, combining ACTO platform expertise, onboarding best practices, and a structured project management approach to deliver measurable value.
What you’ll do
Implementation & Customer Enablement
- Lead the implementation of ACTO Omnichannel capabilities for Established & Emerging Pharmaceutical companies, as well as Enterprise and SMB MedTech companies.
- Understand the customer’s goals, success criteria, and strategic vision for ACTO, and develop a clear & achievable implementation plan.
- Confidently provide product demonstrations and guidance, including ACTO’s AI-enabled capabilities and appropriate use cases, to ensure stakeholder buy‑in ahead of go‑live.
- Build strong relationships with customers by equipping them with the knowledge, tools, and confidence needed for long‑term adoption and success.
- Coach clients on strategies for running a successful launch and sustaining adoption.
- Work cross-functionally to improve implementation strategies, processes, and best practices, including identifying repeatable workflows that can be enhanced or automated through AI.
- Provide structured feedback to Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to reduce friction and enhance the implementation experience.
Project Planning & Governance
- Own the creation, maintenance, and communication of the project plan, including scope, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and roles/responsibilities; leverage AI tools to strengthen planning, sequencing, risk identification, and prioritization.
- Lead all communications and sessions, ensuring all stakeholders understand objectives, deliverables, and success metrics; use AI-generated meeting notes, including Zoom AI notes, to support pre-call planning, prepare and send client agendas in advance, capture decisions and action items, and send timely follow-up emails.
- Maintain clear responsibility mapping for complex implementations.
- Facilitate regular project governance meetings with client stakeholders and ACTO leadership, as required.
Execution & Cross‑Functional Coordination
- Coordinate tasks across Product, Data, Engineering, Sales, Services, and Customer Success teams to ensure seamless execution, as needed.
- Track deliverables, dependencies, risks, and blockers, escalating strategically to maintain project momentum.
- Ensure internal teams are aligned and informed of project status, upcoming needs, and customer expectations.
- Lead change management discussions when customer‑side scope, timelines, or requirements shift.
- Use approved AI tools, including ACTO AI and, where authorized, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other platforms, to streamline repetitive administrative work, improve efficiency, and create capacity for higher-value client and project activities.
Risk, Issue & Change Management
- Proactively identify potential risks and challenges during implementation.
- Develop and communicate mitigation plans to both clients and internal teams.
- Maintain a change log and ensure stakeholders approve adjustments to scope or timelines.
- Resolve both forecasted and unexpected issues, ensuring minimal disruption to the project schedule.
Documentation & Reporting
- Ensure thorough project tracking via Wrike, using AI-generated meeting notes and summaries where appropriate to capture deadlines, decisions, action items, interactions, risks, and project progression.
- Maintain up-to-date project status reports, dashboards, timelines, and client-facing materials for stakeholders and internal teams via Wrike, using AI tools to improve consistency, structure, and formatting while validating outputs for accuracy and completeness.
- Ensure customer data privacy and security standards are followed throughout implementation, including when using AI tools and AI-generated content.
- Provide structured handoffs to Customer Success Team post‑launch with complete and accurate documentation.
Critical Competencies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complexity.
- Exceptional project management and organizational skills, including the ability to leverage AI to improve planning, prioritization, and execution.
- Business empathy to foster deep, consultative relationships with clients.
- Ability to manage multiple projects in fast‑paced and dynamic environments.
- Attention to detail and a strong sense of accountability.
- Demonstrated resourcefulness and problem-solving ability, with sound judgment in selecting, prompting, and validating AI tools for the task at hand.
- Eagerness to learn and continuously improve both team and customer outcomes, including staying current on evolving AI capabilities and sharing practical best practices with the team.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity to create project structure where needed.
- Working knowledge of generative AI and agentic AI, including when and how to use each appropriately and the ability to build simple AI agents or workflows to support individual productivity and recurring tasks.
What you’ll enjoy about ACTO
- Industry-leading, multiple award-winning technology;
- Competitive compensation package;
- Being part of a mission driven organization with the ability to drive solutions that focus on improving patient outcomes;
- Joining a results-driven and collaborative culture;
- Remote work with opportunities for in-person collaboration;
- Company MacBook;
- Budget for work-from-home set-up;
- Monthly work-from-home allowance;
- Flex hours (overlapping with our core hours);
- Participation in group benefits plan;
- Flexible PTO.
At ACTO, we believe diverse and inclusive teams perform better. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to working with applicants requesting accommodations during our interview process.
We may use AI-powered tools during parts of our hiring process to help review applications and support candidate communication. These tools are designed to assist our team, but all final hiring decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers. If you have any questions or concerns about this process, please let us know. We thank everyone for their interest in ACTO. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in onboarding consultant jobs.
- Experience implementing or administering an HRIS platform such as Workday or SAP SuccessFactors
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field
- Strong facilitation and adult learning skills for training employees or clients on new systems
- Proficiency with project management tools to coordinate multi-stakeholder onboarding timelines
- Ability to create onboarding documentation, process guides, and self-service training materials
- SHRM-CP, PHR, or a platform-specific certification such as Workday Pro preferred by many employers
Tips for Your Onboarding Consultant Job Search
Tailor your resume to implementation metrics
Onboarding consultant resumes land interviews when they quantify outcomes: time-to-productivity improvements, client retention rates after onboarding, or the number of end-users trained on a new system. Generic HR bullets won't separate you from the pile.
Highlight your HRIS and LMS platform fluency
Employers filter for specific platforms like Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, or BambooHR. List every HRIS, LMS, or onboarding tool you've used and name the version or module when you can. Vague references to 'HR software' cost you keyword matches in ATS screening.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists onboarding consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by deployment model not just title
Some onboarding consultant roles are internal HR positions, others are client-facing implementation consultants, and others are contractor placements. Read the job description for phrases like 'client delivery' or 'employee lifecycle' to confirm the actual work before you apply.
Prepare a scenario answer about a failed rollout
Interviewers for onboarding consultant roles almost always ask how you handled a client who resisted a new system or an implementation that went off-schedule. Prepare a specific story that shows your de-escalation approach and what you changed as a result.
Negotiate your scope before accepting an offer
Onboarding consultant roles vary widely in client load, travel expectations, and whether you own the full implementation cycle or just the training phase. Ask directly about average client count, expected on-site days per month, and who handles post-go-live support before you accept.
Onboarding Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most onboarding consultants?
The most active employers for onboarding consultants right now are BOK Financial, Osaic, and Infosys, and the most openings are in Texas, Oklahoma, and Illinois, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand tends to concentrate at HR technology vendors, large enterprise software companies, and healthcare systems undergoing HRIS upgrades.
How many onboarding consultant jobs are remote?
About 100% of onboarding consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with the highest remote share found in software implementation and HR technology roles. Client-facing consulting positions at professional services firms are more likely to require on-site or regional travel, particularly during go-live phases.
How do you become an onboarding consultant?
Start by building hands-on experience in HR coordination, employee training, or software implementation. Earning a credential such as SHRM-CP or a platform certification in a widely used HRIS strengthens your application significantly. From there, focus on roles with direct responsibility for onboarding program design or system rollouts, since employers prioritize demonstrated delivery experience over generalist HR background.
Can you get hired as an onboarding consultant with little experience?
Yes, entry points exist for candidates who lack a full consulting title but can show relevant adjacent work. HR coordinators who managed new-hire workflows, L&D specialists who designed training programs, or project coordinators who supported software deployments are all competitive starting points. Pairing that experience with a platform-specific certification closes the gap faster than waiting for a formal consulting role to appear on your resume.
What does the onboarding consultant interview process look like?
Most hiring processes include an initial recruiter screen, a competency interview focused on past implementation or training projects, and a final-round panel or case exercise. The case often involves walking through how you would design or troubleshoot an onboarding program for a specific scenario. Client-facing roles may also include a presentation component where you demonstrate how you would train a resistant end-user group.
Where can I find and apply to onboarding consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to onboarding consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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