Engagement Manager
About the role
The Engagement Manager will manage the delivery of customer engagements into production. This is a hands-on delivery role with room to grow, leading to the ownership of our largest and most strategic engagements.
Responsibilities
- Manage customer engagements to production — own the project plan, timeline, and day-to-day execution for defined-scope implementations.
- Cook up cross-functional delivery teams — keep Chalk Forward-Deployed Engineers, customer stakeholders, and any partners aligned and moving.
- Maintain program governance — keep control documents, RAID/risk logs, action items, and status current and accurate.
- Track and escalate risks and issues — surface blockers early, follow up on owners and due dates, and escalate to your Senior EM when needed.
- Run a clear communication cadence — deliver reliable, well-organized status updates to customer and internal audiences.
- Translate between business and technical teams — capture requirements, document decisions, and help the team make progress against customer outcomes.
- Support executive conversations — prepare briefings and materials, and contribute to discovery and planning discussions.
- Follow and improve the engagement playbook — apply Chalk's standard templates and mechanisms, and suggest improvements as you learn.
Requirements
- 3+ years (5+ preferred) in project/program management, professional services delivery, technical account management, or a comparable customer-facing delivery role.
- Experience managing projects with cross-functional stakeholders through to completion.
- Strong organization, written communication, and follow-through.
- Comfort working with technical teams and customer stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications
- Exposure to data, ML/AI, or infrastructure/platform products.
- Familiarity with project management and collaboration tooling (e.g., Linear, Jira, Asana).
- Project management coursework or certification (e.g., PMP) a plus.
- Experience in a startup or fast-paced environment.
What you'll own in your first 6–12 months
- Take ownership of multiple concurrent high stakes engagements and drive them to their production milestones.
- Build a dependable status and action-item cadence your customers and internal team rely on.
- Build working relationships with your customers' project and technical stakeholders.
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years (5+ preferred) in project/program management, professional services delivery, technical account management, or a comparable customer-facing delivery role.
- Experience managing projects with cross-functional stakeholders through to completion.
- Strong organization, written communication, and follow-through.
- Comfort working with technical teams and customer stakeholders.
Location & travel
This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, New York or Los Angeles, with in-office collaboration and travel to customer sites as engagements require.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA).
- Flex Commuter Benefits.
- Expert Healthcare Guidance.
- Retirement savings.
- 15 days of PTO and 14 company holidays each year.
- Paid parental leave.
- Daily lunch and dinner on Chalk.
- Staying late? Dinner is on us.
- Staying even later? Grab an Uber / Lyft home on Chalk.
- Team building events & happy hours.
Compensation
Chalk offers early team members a generous salary + equity package based on experience and competitive benefits. Actual compensation awarded to successful candidates will be based on several factors, including but not limited to: market, location, scope of the position and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process.
Inclusivity
Chalk is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion and provide reasonable accommodations to anyone in need of individualized support.