I. INNOVATOSTRATEGIES

Launch team opportunities

Help build what comes next.

Innovato is assembling a small, high-trust launch team around excellent strategy, disciplined execution, and thoughtful client relationships. These are the four roles we need now—not a catalog of hypothetical future openings.

Home market
Dallas–Fort Worth
Team model
Part-time + project-based
Environment
Lean, direct, accountable

Open launch roles

Four roles. One deliberately lean team.

Innovato retains strategic leadership, sales, scope, pricing, and final client accountability. These roles add the relationship, research, operating, and production capacity required to launch well.

DFW hybrid · Part-time W-2 employee

Client & Community Engagement Lead

Be Innovato’s consistent local presence across the DFW business, civic, arts, entrepreneurial, and referral communities—then make sure every promising relationship receives thoughtful follow-through.

Base pay$38–$50/hourApproximately 15–20 hours per week
Bonus opportunity5% target; 10% maximumOf eligible base wages earned during the plan year, subject to the written plan
Location
Must be able to attend meetings and events throughout DFW
Schedule
Flexible core hours with occasional evening events
Reports to
Innovato

What you’ll own

  • Build durable relationships across family-business, independent-business, music, nonprofit, and civic networks.
  • Attend relevant meetings, events, associations, and community programs throughout DFW.
  • Maintain prospect, referral-partner, and follow-up activity in the firm’s CRM.
  • Advance Innovato-led introductions without turning the role into transactional selling.
  • Coordinate local onboarding, client check-ins, workshops, and event logistics.
  • Surface useful market intelligence and emerging client needs to the strategy team.
  • Support proposals and presentations while Innovato retains pricing, scoping, and closing responsibility.

What you bring

  • Four or more years in client service, partnerships, community engagement, professional services, economic development, or a comparable role.
  • Strong working knowledge of DFW and its business and community landscape.
  • Excellent interpersonal judgment, business writing, and follow-through.
  • Comfort with senior business owners, creatives, civic stakeholders, and politically sensitive work.
  • CRM experience, reliable transportation, and availability for in-person and occasional evening commitments.
  • A degree or equivalent professional experience.

How the bonus works

The written incentive plan may include a business-development component equal to 3% of collected Innovato professional fees from qualifying, self-originated new clients, subject to the overall 10% cap. The plan will define client qualification, attribution, collection, and payment timing; introductions and unqualified leads do not count. Client-experience and firm-performance measures may also apply.

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Flexible · Part-time W-2 employee

Client Operations & Project Coordinator

Build the operating rhythm that keeps a small consulting firm dependable, prepared, and easy for clients and collaborators to work with.

Base pay$28–$36/hourApproximately 15–20 hours per week
Bonus opportunity3% target; 5% maximumOf eligible base wages earned during the plan year, subject to the written plan
Location
Primarily remote or hybrid; Texas preferred
Schedule
Flexible with reliable weekday availability
Reports to
Innovato

What you’ll own

  • Coordinate calendars, client meetings, deadlines, and deliverable schedules.
  • Prepare onboarding materials and administer approved proposals and statements of work.
  • Maintain accurate CRM, project, contact, and document records.
  • Coordinate invoices, payment follow-up, expenses, and bookkeeping handoffs.
  • Organize meeting notes, action items, reusable templates, and project files.
  • Coordinate external specialists and track their agreed milestones.
  • Maintain appropriate confidentiality, permissions, and access controls.

What you bring

  • Two or more years in professional-services operations, project coordination, executive support, or client administration.
  • Excellent follow-through, organization, and attention to detail.
  • Experience with scheduling, collaborative documents, CRM, invoicing, and project-management tools.
  • Clear and professional client communication.
  • Sound judgment with confidential business and campaign-related information.
  • No degree requirement when supported by relevant experience.

How the bonus works

The written plan measures delivery accuracy, deadline reliability, utilization administration, collection support, client-service standards, and overall firm performance.

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Flexible · Project-based independent contractor

Strategy & Insights Analyst

Extend Innovato’s capacity on defined client engagements by turning disciplined research into clear findings, credible strategic options, and practical implementation plans.

Professional fee$50–$70/hourOr approximately $2,500–$7,500 per scoped project
Additional potentialUp to 5% milestone feeOnly when defined in the statement of work
Location
Remote or hybrid; DFW preferred but not required
Project structure
Defined deliverables and project term established in each statement of work
Engagement
Discrete deliverables with independent methods and schedule

What you’ll deliver

  • Market, competitor, customer, stakeholder, and trend research.
  • Interview and survey preparation, synthesis, and analysis.
  • Concise findings, strategic options, and actionable recommendations.
  • Workshop materials, presentations, executive briefs, and implementation plans.
  • Decision logs, measurement frameworks, and follow-up actions within the agreed scope.
  • Source, calculation, citation, and quality checks before handoff.

What you bring

  • At least three years in consulting, research, brand strategy, customer experience, organizational strategy, product strategy, or an adjacent discipline.
  • Exceptional analytical reasoning and business writing.
  • Strong spreadsheet and presentation capabilities.
  • Qualitative-research experience; quantitative-analysis experience is strongly preferred.
  • An established independent practice, your own tools, and the ability to serve multiple clients.
  • A degree or equivalent demonstrable experience.

How the milestone fee works

A statement of work may add a milestone fee of up to 5% of the agreed base professional fee for deliverables that satisfy stated acceptance criteria by the agreed deadline. It is a negotiated contract fee, not an employee bonus.

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Remote · Independent contractor

Brand & Digital Production Partner

Translate approved strategy into polished, accessible client-facing materials without adding permanent production overhead to the launch team.

Core production fee$50–$90/hourBrand, presentation, content, and production design
Specialist fee$75–$125/hourSenior UX, web, data visualization, or specialized digital work
Location
Remote
Project structure
Defined assignments and delivery dates established in each statement of work
Additional fees
No standing bonus; a disclosed 15–25% rush premium may apply

What you’ll deliver

  • Presentations, research reports, toolkits, and executive materials.
  • Brand, website, email, social, event, and campaign assets included in a client scope.
  • Consistent, accessible, production-ready work across formats.
  • Organized editable files, documented specifications, and clean handoffs.
  • Production that follows approved strategy rather than independently changing client direction.

What you bring

  • At least four years of relevant production experience and a strong portfolio.
  • High proficiency with current design, presentation, or digital-production tools.
  • Evidence of polished business and digital work, not only conceptual exploration.
  • Professional-services, entertainment, or public-interest communications experience is helpful.
  • An established independent practice, your own equipment and insurance, and the ability to work through defined statements of work.

How project pricing works

Assignments use a written statement of work, hourly range, or fixed fee. There is no standing employee bonus. Any rush premium is agreed before work begins and reflects compressed timelines—not subjective performance.

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How Innovato works

Small teams. Clear ownership. Work that holds up.

01

Direct access. You will work close to Innovato, the client, and the decision—not several layers away from it.

02

Flexibility with accountability. We care about sound judgment, reliable availability, and excellent outcomes more than performative busyness.

03

Care with sensitive information. Family businesses, creative ventures, and campaigns all require discretion, disciplined access, and thoughtful communication.

04

Honest working relationships. Employee roles and independent scopes are structured differently and documented clearly.

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Show us how you think and how you work.

Choose the role that fits, tell us where your experience connects, and send the work that best represents you. For DFW-local positions, include the communities and parts of the region you know best.

Questions before applying? careers@innovatostrategies.com

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All amounts are in U.S. dollars. Final employee pay within the posted range depends on relevant experience; final contractor fees depend on the agreed scope. Employee incentive awards are governed by written plans that state eligibility, earning conditions, measurement periods, payment timing, and caps. Contractor terms are documented in individual statements of work.

Innovato considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.