Strategy and Engagement Lead

Runpoint Partners; United States; À distance; USD 120 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Travel to client sites

Résumé du poste

Runpoint Partners seeks an experienced engagement lead to run client projects end to end—from discovery to first working versions. You will guide scope, decisions, and prototyping, using Claude Code and similar tools, while coordinating engineers and client stakeholders. This role is contract to hire with remote work and occasional client-site travel.

You will run discovery, assess architecture, and defend build vs buy choices, ensuring alignment with client needs in week two and beyond.

Qualifications

• Years of consulting, agency, or operating experience with real clients and budgets.
• Daily use of AI tools and opinions about models; developed apps are a plus.
• Ability to read an architecture diagram and think through build vs buy.
• You can sit with an owner, an operations lead and an engineer and earn their trust.

Responsabilités

• Run the engagement: schedule, people, and next steps without a task list.
• Lead discovery: interviews, process reviews, and review of existing systems.
• Assess risks by outcome impact, not exhaustive risk listing.
• Recommend build, buy, or replace decisions, including ERP choices.
• Build prototypes and plans with Claude Code; brief engineers on production version.
• Stay close to the build after handoff to ensure continued alignment.
• Help win the next project through trusted judgment.

Connaissances

Project leadership

Discovery & scoping

Stakeholder management

AI tool usage

Read architecture diagrams

ERP/build-vs-buy decisions

Outils

Claude Code

Description du poste

TLDR

• You run our client projects end to end: the strategy, the plan, the people and the first working versions.
• Most projects start with discovery. You learn the business, decide what is worth building, and stand behind the call.
• You build prototypes and plans with Claude Code and direct the engineers who build the rest. You don't need to be an engineer.
• You have years in consulting, an agency or a similar seat, and you run a project without anyone telling you what to do next.
• Contract to hire, with full-time work from the week of October 19. Remote, with some trips to client sites.

Runpoint is growing, and we need more people who can lead a client project from the first conversation to the finished build.

Most of our projects start with a few weeks of discovery. You spend the first two listening: to the owner, the operations lead and the people doing the work, and to whatever systems and code the company already has. Then you decide what to build, what to buy and what to leave alone, and you stand behind it.

You make your work with Claude Code and tools like it. You build prototypes, plans and working drafts, and you direct the engineers who build the real thing. You won't write production code, and nobody here wants a sixty-page report.

The role is contract to hire. We start on contract and plan to bring you on full-time.

What you will do

• Run the engagement yourself: the schedule, the people and the next step. Nobody hands you a task list.
• Run discovery: interviews, process reviews, and a careful read of the client's existing systems and code.
• Weigh risks by what matters, including what happens two steps later, instead of listing every risk you can think of.
• Recommend what to build, buy or replace, including large calls like a new ERP, and defend the choice.
• Build prototypes and plans with Claude Code, and brief the engineers who build the production version.
• Stay close to the build after handoff, so it still matches what the client needs in week two and later.
• Help win the next project. Clients who trust your judgment ask for more work.

What we need

• Years of consulting, agency or operating experience with real clients and real budgets.
• You use AI tools every day, have opinions about the models, and have built apps of your own.
• Enough technical depth to read an architecture diagram, question a vendor and think through build versus buy.
• You can sit with an owner, an operations lead and an engineer and earn the trust of all three.
• You can start on contract the week of October 19.