AI Engagement Manager

San Francisco, CA · On-site (5+ days) · Full-time

Compensation: $200,000–$320,000 + competitive equity

About the Company

A seed-stage, San Francisco–based applied-AI company that helps enterprises move AI from prototype to reliable production — embedding with customers, auditing their operations, and building the agents, integrations, and workflows required to run them. The team's thesis is that the hard part of enterprise AI is deployment, reliability, and trust, not the model itself.

Founded 2026 · 11–50 people · Industry: AI Tools

The Role

The senior client-facing role: own enterprise accounts end-to-end — from the first executive conversation to agents running in production to the engagements that follow — and lead the strategists and engineers delivering each engagement.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the delivery team on the ground; own what they ship and how the client experiences it.
• Sit across from CFOs, COOs, and CROs — run the executive cadence, present findings, and defend recommendations under pressure.
• Run the motion end-to-end: first meeting, pre-meeting brief, follow-up, custom demo, engagement letter, and expansion — tightening the playbook as you go.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into engagements with clear outcomes, ROI targets, and exec sponsors; hold the line on scope.
• Expand accounts post-deployment — map the org, find high-leverage workflows, and turn one engagement into three.
• Feed every account back into the company's playbooks, patterns, and platform.

Requirements

• 4-8 years experience, MBB or top-tier operator background
• Stakeholder navigation with billion-dollar enterprise clients
• C-suite polish: branding, eye contact, calm under pressure
• First-principles analytical depth, not surface-level
• Team leadership track record
• SF Financial District, 5+ days in-person

Green Flags

• Real-time, low-latency responsiveness when the interviewer pivots mid-question.
• Strong, data-validated opinions they can defend without bluffing.
• Attentiveness: notices what is missing and asks the next question.
• Polished delivery, calm presence on a C-suite call.
• Independent: sets their own direction without needing hand-holding.

Red Flags

• Talks too slowly, over-questions, or won't take the lead in the conversation.
• Surface-level analytical answers ("I'd look at revenue and costs").
• Doesn't respond to prompting or feedback; keeps reciting their framework.
• Needs a long onboarding ramp (several weeks or months).
• Polish gap. Won't represent the brand on a C-suite call.

Why Join

• Work on implementations that actually ship and run in production.
• Direct access to operators and executives without layers or process overhead.
• Own the full loop from problem identification through deployment and operation.
• Shape product, playbooks, and company scaling as an early team member.
• Work with a high-bar team of top operators, engineers, and strategists.

Details

• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Work policy: On-site, 5+ days in-person (Financial District); 10–20% client travel
• Compensation: $200,000–$320,000 + equity
• Visa sponsorship: None available
• Employment type: Full-time