Freelance Senior Consultant

About Mindrift and Toloka AI

Mindrift, powered by Toloka, specializes in connecting top domain experts with cutting-edge AI initiatives. Toloka AI supports frontier model post-training by building domain-specific reinforcement learning environments, tasks, and evaluation frameworks designed by real practitioners. Backed by Toloka’s deep expertise in scalable data generation, crowd technology, and applied ML systems, Mindrift enables experts to shape how next-generation generative models learn, reason, and perform.

The Opportunity

We are launching a Management Consulting domain focused on translating real-world consulting engagements into structured learning environments for advanced AI systems. As a Freelance Senior Consultant, you will join a team of McKinsey and Bain consultants shaping how AI learns high-level business reasoning. This role requires converting authentic project experience into end-to-end examples, covering problem structuring, work planning, analysis, synthesis, and client-ready recommendations.

Important: This role is exclusively for consultants with MBB experience (McKinsey, BCG, or Bain). If you do not have direct experience at one of these firms, please do not apply. This requirement is non-negotiable and ensures the domain is built by practitioners with firsthand MBB training and standards.

Who Mindrift is Looking For

• Consultants with 3+ years of experience at McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, or Bain & Company.
• Hands-on project experience in:
• Structuring ambiguous client problems
• Building models and synthesized findings
• Producing client-ready deliverables
• Forming recommendations under uncertainty
• No deep technical background required; you will be onboarded on the lightweight tools involved.

What You’ll Do as a Freelance Senior Consultant

This is a remote, individual-contributor, project-based role focused on analytical design and evaluation.

• Build realistic consulting project environments: Create detailed project scenarios including industry context, financials, constraints, and incomplete information.
• Design structured consulting tasks for AI Agents: Break down projects into tasks that mirror real consulting work, such as market sizing, due diligence, cost reduction, growth strategy, or operational diagnosis.
• Define evaluation criteria and quality standards: Develop a grading approach, evaluation criteria, and golden solutions for each task. These will train and calibrate an LLM-based grading system to evaluate AI outputs at scale.

Skills & Requirements

• 3+ years at McKinsey, BCG, or Bain
• Strong structured problem-solving skills
• Ability to translate vague problems into clear analytical steps
• High attention to logical consistency
• Independent working style
• Clear written English (B2+)

Key skills/competency

• Management Consulting
• Strategy Consulting
• Problem Solving
• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• AI Training
• Reinforcement Learning
• Client Deliverables
• Market Sizing
• Operational Diagnosis