Engagement Manager

CincyBrianHires; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CincyBrianHires is seeking an Engagement Manager to lead client engagements for an AI engineering firm in San Francisco. You will engage with C-suite executives, manage a team of consultants, and ensure successful project delivery across various departments.

The ideal candidate has 4–10 years of experience, exceptional analytical skills, and a polished executive presence. The role offers a dynamic startup environment with opportunities to work on cutting-edge AI implementations.

Qualifications

• 4–10 years of overall experience with 4+ years in management consulting.
• Strong analytical skills capable of understanding complex business contexts.
• Ability to engage effectively with C-suite executives.

Responsibilities

• Own client accounts end-to-end and lead team of consultants.
• Manage day-to-day work of junior consultants ensuring quality output.
• Scope new AI agent implementations by translating business problems.

Skills

Management consulting

Analytical skills

Executive presence

Understanding of AI

Adaptability in startup environments

Education

Degree from a top-tier university

Job description

Our client, a fast-growing AI engineering firm building production-grade agents for enterprise, is hiring Engagement Managers to lead client engagements end-to-end. You'll be forward-deployed with billion-dollar clients, sitting across from C-suite executives, running the executive cadence, and commanding a team of consultants and engineers on the ground.

This is a role for someone with exceptional polish, deep analytical ability, and a working understanding of AI — someone who can walk into a room, reframe the problem, and make executives feel like they're in the best hands possible.

The company is scaling aggressively off massive client demand and needs people who thrive in startup environments with minimal oversight.

What you'll do:

• Own client accounts end-to-end — from engaging C-suite stakeholders and running interviews with middle management and ICs to understand their workflows, to ensuring successful project delivery
• Lead a team of 2+ junior consultants/strategists on each engagement, managing their day-to-day work and ensuring quality output
• Ramp up on existing project context, understand client sentiment, and identify pain points across multiple concurrent engagements spanning finance, sales, marketing, and operations departments
• Scope new AI agent implementations by translating ambiguous business problems into clear engagement plans with defined outcomes and ROI targets

Requirements:

• 4–10 years of experience, including 4+ years in management consulting at a top-tier firm (MBB or equivalent) owning client engagements
• Degree from a top-tier university
• Polished executive presence that commands C-suite confidence immediately
• Extremely strong analytical skills
• Working understanding of AI — able to scope AI implementations and discuss them credibly with engineers
• Comfortable in startup environments with minimal oversight