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Engagement Manager
Location
United States + 1 moreAll locations: United States, Canada
Posted
12 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Job Description
Job Requirements
- Develop delivery plans, timelines, and resourcing models that balance customer goals, product constraints, and internal capacity.
- Provide data-driven estimates for effort, cost, risk, and delivery timelines, clearly articulating assumptions and tradeoffs.
- Lead cross-functional projects from planning through implementation, ensuring successful delivery and stakeholder alignment
- Own end-to-end delivery for assigned projects (scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality).
- Oversee the Project Team (EM, OBM, SA) as a single accountable delivery unit for strategic engagements.
- Project Management
- Select and apply the appropriate delivery methodology (Waterfall, Agile, or Hybrid) based on the customer's context and risk profile.
- Drive project planning: work breakdown, dependencies, critical path, and resource allocations across internal and partner teams.
- Maintain an up-to-date project plan, RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), and change log.
- Customer & Stakeholder Management
- Act as a trusted customer advisor, guiding stakeholders through complex technical and organizational decisions in ambiguous environments.
- Partner with Sales on deal shaping, including scope refinement, sequencing recommendations, and delivery risk mitigation.
- Clearly articulate commercial, operational, and technical tradeoffs to executive stakeholders.
- Serve as primary delivery contact for customer project sponsors, IT, and business stakeholders.
- Facilitate recurring governance: status calls, steering committees, UAT readouts, and go-live reviews.
- Translate technical complexity into clear business impacts for executive stakeholders with a heavy focus on change management.
- Manage scope and change requests, ensuring commercial and delivery impacts are understood and agreed.
- Cross-Functional & Pod Coordination
- Coordinate with OBM and SA on integration readiness, environment setup, performance, and production stability.
- Coordinate on discovery, workflow, and/or agent design, prompt/context strategy, and conversational tuning.
- Collaborate with Sales, Solution Engineering, Product, Success, and Care to ensure a seamless customer journey.
- Where partners are involved (SI/GSI/BPO), manage co-delivery responsibilities, expectations, and escalation paths.
- Internal Project Management for strategic initiatives, Onboarding and Implementation enablement and operational efficiency initiatives.
- Own resource planning and allocation across concurrent engagements, in partnership with Onboarding and Solution Architect Leadership.
- Methodology & Process Discipline
- Operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments, bringing structure, clarity, and momentum where requirements or paths forward are not fully defined.
- Plan and facilitate sprints, retros, and sprint reviews for Agile/hybrid projects; lead stage-gate reviews for Waterfall projects.
- Enforce documentation standards (Charter, Design Docs, Runbooks, Handover Docs).
- Ensure risk and compliance requirements (security reviews, data governance, regulatory constraints) are captured and incorporated into the plan.
- Metrics & Reporting
- Define and track deployment KPIs, such as:
- Time to Workflow Design, Time to UAT, Time to Go-Live
- Milestone On-Time Rate
- Report delivery status, risk posture, and mitigation plans to internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute data to capacity and utilization models to inform planning and staffing.
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