Junior Prompt Engineer
Olive Tree Consulting Group
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Job description
We are looking for a Junior Prompt Engineer to join our team as we support a partner in the financial sector. This role focuses on translating management problems into clear, structured instructions for large language models to assist with client work. You will help us refine how we use technology to make complex management data easier to handle.
About the Role At Olive Tree Consulting, we believe that technology should reduce friction rather than add to it. This position exists to help our consultants turn messy, qualitative data from client meetings into structured insights. Working alongside our more experienced advisors, you will help design and test prompts that allow us to summarize meeting notes, categorize decision logs, and identify where responsibility might be getting lost in a client's current workflow. Since we are a fully remote firm, you will coordinate with the team through written communication and shared documentation. Your work will directly support our ability to provide clarity to our partners without adding unnecessary complexity.
What You Will Do
- Write and refine prompts to extract specific action items and decision points from long transcripts and notes.
- Compare the outputs of different AI models to see which one handles financial context and nuanced management language best.
- Maintain a library of successful prompts and documentation so the rest of the team can use them reliably.
- Assist in the creation of simplified reporting templates that summarize client progress on a weekly basis.
- Collaborate with our advisory team to understand the specific friction a client is facing and tailor AI responses to address it.
- Run quality checks on AI-generated summaries to ensure they capture the actual meaning and intent of a meeting.
- Help organize the smallest possible written record for our internal projects to ensure nothing is lost.
What We Are Looking For
- A strong interest in how language and logic interact to produce specific results.
- The ability to write in a way that is clear, concise, and easy for a machine or a person to follow.
- A habit of checking your own work for small errors or logical gaps.
- Curiosity about how businesses actually function behind the scenes.
- A patient approach to troubleshooting when a prompt does not work as expected the first time.
- Comfort working independently in a remote setting while staying in close touch with the team.
- Willingness to learn how to bridge the gap between human strategy and technical execution.
Helpful Background
- Basic familiarity with common large language models and how to interact with them.
- A background in humanities, linguistics, or technical writing can be very useful here.
- Experience managing personal projects or academic work that requires high levels of organization.
- Exposure to the financial sector or basic business concepts through coursework or internships.
- A preference for plain writing over complex or flowery language.
What We Offer The position is a permanent, full-time role and is fully remote. We offer a work environment that values quiet productivity and useful documentation over constant meetings. This is a paid position with a rate that is competitive for the entry-level market. You will have the opportunity to see how high-level management decisions are made and how organizations solve structural problems while gaining practical experience with AI tools in a professional advisory setting.
About Olive Tree Olive Tree Consulting Group is a focused advisory practice that helps leadership teams solve recurring management issues. We typically work on the space between strategy and daily execution. A team can have very capable people and still find that decisions keep reopening, priorities stall, or responsibility remains unclear. These are rarely personality problems; they are structural habits that have not kept up with the company's growth.
We favor practical changes over large-scale transformation programs. Our work involves looking at how decisions are made, how meetings are run, and how ownership is recorded. We prefer useful written notes and clear ownership over polished presentations and vague alignment. Good advisory work should make things plainer and leave the team with a rhythm they can continue on their own.
The firm is built on the principle that memory is not a management system. We help teams create the smallest possible written record to support their work so that important follow-up does not depend on who was in the room or who has the best memory. The goal is a quieter management pattern that makes the existing work easier to lead.
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