Solutions Engagement Manager

The role

You will sit at the intersection of client delivery and engineering to manage the technical and business success of complex programs. You will embed with clients to understand their business and partner with engineering teams to build and ship technical solutions.

What you will do

• Embed with client teams to understand business and strategic value drivers
• Identify problems worth solving and guide customers away from non-value-add requests
• Develop customer solution visions and translate them into roadmaps for engineering
• Define requirements, scope, and prioritize the backlog
• Review architecture, data pipelines, and integrations for feasibility
• Build realistic plans and coordinate across engineers and client stakeholders
• Track hours, spend, and forecast project direction
• Maintain current working knowledge of AI technologies and methods
• Use AI in day-to-day work for prototyping, planning, and reporting
• Engage with client technology teams and engineers to test assumptions and weigh tradeoffs

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of project, program, and/or product management experience leading technology initiatives with mid- to large-size customers
• Hands-on experience working with, deploying or supporting AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics solutions
• Strong technical literacy in system architecture, APIs, data pipelines, and ML model deployment
• Proven track record delivering custom-built software and data solutions
• Strong executive presence and communication skills
• Domain proficiency/expertise in one or more of these industries: energy, utilities, real estate, logistics, climate, or infrastructure
• Demonstrated success supporting or managing complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives in environments of ambiguity and rapid change
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices
• A tenacious problem solver
• A bias toward outcomes over tasks
• A growth-oriented learner

Nice to have

• Technical degree (Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) or similar experience

Benefits

• Competitive early-stage startup compensation
• Bonus eligibility
• Health insurance with meaningful coverage for dependents
• Flexible paid time off
• Equity

Before you apply

• Must be able to travel 2x/year for company summits and occasional client visits
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time

About the company

AZX specializes in physics-informed ML and enterprise AI solutions that address climate and sustainability challenges. They work with category-leaders in real estate, energy, logistics and utilities.