Careers
+A common purpose: join a diverse and experienced team united by a common ambition for impact
Our team is our main asset. We bring together a range of backgrounds and experiences, from Senior Partners at McKinsey to social entrepreneurs, united by a common mission to tackle major social and environmental issues via market-based business models that can drive impact at scale. We learn from each other on a daily basis; work in close, dynamic team units; and fully expect the most Junior person in the room to speak up and challenge the rest of the team from the get-go!
+ Never a boring day: jump from sector to sector, country to country from one day to the next
A typical week at Hystra could see you working on a new business model in Nigeria to launch fortified nutritious snacks on Monday; helping to design a new public-private alliance to tackle plastic waste on Wednesday, and moving on to a research piece into the off-grid solar sector in Kenya by the end of the week! This offers a unique opportunity to simultaneously develop an expertise on inclusive businesses across sectors and geographies, while constantly learning and being confronted by new problems to tackle.
+From the board-room to the field: work across different settings to understand the problem at multiple levels
We work with executives at multinational corporations and philanthropic funds just as much as we work with pioneering social enterprises and organisations interacting daily with end-consumers. Our role in bridging these different worlds requires us to put ourselves in other people’s shoes and stay connected to the realities of the problems that we seek to tackle, as well as the solutions we strive to develop. (When safe to do so), our consultants travel across the world, from board-rooms in Islamabad to remote rural regions of the Ivory Coast.
Do you want to learn more about what we do?
Is Hystra on your mind but you are still not sure if you would like to join us? Learn more about what we do and how it is to work for us with the following resources:
A series of articles from our founder Olivier Kayser:
An interview (in French) with Chitraksh Sharma, one of our consultants
An interview (in French) with Alice Magand, one of our project managers
An interview (in French) with Louise Berthault, one of our consultants
An interview with Lucie Klarsfeld McGrath, one of our partners
A podcast (in French), by UpStarted, with Lucie Klarsfeld McGrath, one of our partners
Open positions
JUNIOR CONSULTANT | PARIS HEADQUARTERS | JANUARY 2025
We are looking for junior consultants for a 6-month internship starting in the winter of 2025.