Engagement Manager

Astrodata; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Astrodata is seeking an Engagement Manager to join our core team remotely in the United States. You will lead delivery, coordinate agile ceremonies, and drive stakeholder alignment across data projects, ensuring transparency and fast decision-making.

You will manage epics, stories, and tasks in JIRA, support capacity planning, report risks and milestones, and partner with architects to align work with client priorities and business objectives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project/engagement management within data/analytics or technology consultancy.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Hands-on experience managing JIRA boards and agile workflows.
• Experience working in client-facing environments with executive stakeholders.
• Ability to translate technical progress into business updates.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Organize and lead daily standups to align the team.
• Support story point estimation, capacity planning, and acceptance criteria.
• Monitor workload and resource utilization.
• Document progress and risks; produce stakeholder reports.
• Lead weekly stakeholder meetings and update delivery status.
• Ensure delivery transparency with leadership and clients.
• Escalate blockers promptly and remove delivery obstacles.
• Collaborate with architects to surface systemic delivery issues.
• Manage epics, stories, and tasks in JIRA.
• Maintain workflow hygiene for reporting and velocity.
• Align delivery with client priorities and OKRs.

Skills

Project management

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder communication

Resource planning

Client-facing

Tools

JIRA

Job description

# Engagement ManagerFull-timeRemote (US)CompetitivePosted July 2026## OverviewWe’re looking for a driven, thoughtful, highly organized and intellectually curious Engagement Manager to join our core team at Astrodata. This role sits at the intersection of project management, agile facilitation, stakeholder communication, and delivery execution. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced data environments, ensures transparency across stakeholders, and removes obstacles so technical teams can deliver high-impact data products efficiently.## Responsibilities* Organize and facilitate daily standup meetings to ensure alignment, focus, and clear work distribution across the team.* Support accurate story point estimation and capacity planning, including the creation of user stories and tasks, and defining acceptance criteria for scoped work efforts.* Monitor workload balance and ensure effective utilization of team resources.* Document progress, risks, and blockers through structured weekly reporting, and work with delivering teams to generate stakeholder-facing reports on Astrodata delivery.* Lead weekly stakeholder meetings to communicate status, milestones, and delivery updates.* Ensure delivery transparency across Astrodata leadership and client stakeholders.* Proactively identify delivery risks and remove obstacles, as well as opportunities within our engagements to improve on velocity, and identify opportunities with clients to get more value from our work with them.* Ensure timely and appropriate escalation when team members become blocked.* Partner with architects and technical leads to surface systemic delivery challenges.* Manage epics, stories, and tasks within JIRA.* Ensure tickets are accurately staged and reflect the real-time state of work.* Maintain workflow hygiene to support reporting, forecasting, and velocity tracking.* Collaborate with solution architects to anchor delivery in business objectives and data practice OKRs.* Facilitate high-velocity pipeline development and data use case delivery.* Align team execution with client priorities and strategic roadmap objectives.## Requirements* 5+ years of experience in project management, engagement management, or delivery leadership within a data, analytics, or technology consultancy.* Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.* Hands-on experience managing JIRA boards and agile workflows.* Experience working in client-facing environments with executive stakeholders.* Ability to translate technical progress into business-relevant updates.* Exceptional organizational and communication skills.### Nice to Have* Experience supporting healthcare organizations or health technology companies.* Familiarity with data engineering, BI, analytics, or modern data stack environments.* Experience aligning technical delivery with OKRs and strategic initiatives.## Benefits & Perks* Remote work with at least annual team offsite* Great health, dental, and vision coverage (US only)* 401k benefits with employer matching contribution (US only)* The chance to help build out our practice, helping form our service offerings and strategy* Ability to learn rapidly amongst an extremely talented and collaborative team* An awesome, empathetic community of co-workers