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Senior Engagement Manager

$275K

San Francisco, CA +1 · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026

Location
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Experience
8+ years in customer-facing or high-stakes leadership roles; top-tier consulting experience or an equivalent mix of consulting, elite institutional leadership, and high-intensity startup or operating experience.

About the job

Own end-to-end relationships with large frontier AI lab customers, translating their goals into delivery priorities and supporting account growth, renewals, and measurable outcomes.

What you'll do

  • Manage relationships across a portfolio of $100M+ run-rate frontier AI lab accounts, serving as the primary contact in high-stakes situations.
  • Turn evolving client goals into requirements and priorities with Strategic Project Leads and Operations; make tradeoffs to protect customer outcomes and quality.
  • Partner with Sales on expansion and define and report success metrics, including KPIs, SLAs, and model quality.

What they ask for

  • 8+ years in customer-facing or high-stakes leadership roles, such as engagement management, consulting, strategy and operations, elite military leadership, or founder/operating roles.
  • Meaningful experience at a top-tier consulting firm or an equivalent mix of consulting, elite institutional leadership, and high-intensity startup or operating experience.
  • Currently in an external, customer-facing role or held one within the last two years.
  • Track record leading complex, multi-stakeholder engagements to measurable outcomes for enterprise customers, including work with VP- and C-level stakeholders.

Nice to have

  • Technical or STEM background alongside customer-facing experience.
  • Prior experience in AI, data, or frontier model development.

Pay

$275K (currency and whether base salary or total pay not specified)

AI focus

Engage frontier AI lab customers on model development and data problems; develop technical fluency in AI and track model quality.

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