Engagement Lead
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ClimbData and AI
United States (Remote)Full-TimeLead
SalaryCompetitive base salary with performance-based bonuses
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years in professional services
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementArtificial IntelligenceData engineeringStakeholder managementDatabricks
Requirements
- 7+ years in professional services, including 3+ years leading consulting engagements with commercial accountability: budget, margin, or change-order ownership.
- Track record managing engagement budgets of $500K+ with healthy margins and referenceable clients.
- Working fluency in data and AI delivery: you can follow an architecture discussion, pressure-test an estimate, and translate technical risk into business terms.
- Experience managing executive stakeholders through ambiguity, escalation, and change.
- Demonstrated scope control: change orders written, margins protected, and expectations reset without breaking trust.
- Daily use of AI tooling in your own workflow; you expect leverage from your tools and know how to get it.
- Experience delivering Databricks or modern data stack programs (preferred).
- Boutique or high-growth consultancy background (preferred).
- Exposure to PE-backed clients and their operating cadence (preferred).
- Pre-sales or scoping experience (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Own engagement P&L: budget, burn, margin, and invoicing accuracy from kickoff to close.
- Run the delivery cadence (planning, risk management, steering committees, and internal health reviews) across one to three concurrent engagements.
- Own the day-to-day client relationship; keep executive sponsors confident, informed, and bought in.
- Control scope with commercial discipline: manage change orders, protect the margin, and say no gracefully.
- Surface expansion signals early, shape follow-on scope with the AI Strategist and account team, and carry a point of view on where the account goes next.
- Orchestrate senior pods: sequence the work, remove blockers, and hold the team to the outcome without micromanaging craftspeople.
- Run engagements on Climb’s agentic delivery OS (AI-assisted planning, reporting, and delivery telemetry) and feed improvements back into the platform.
- Contribute lessons from every engagement into Climb’s methodology and playbooks.
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