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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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