Engagement Manager

The Role The Engagement Manager is the quarterback of Realize 2050 ’s consulting teams. You’ll lead day-to-day execution across projects with utilities, energy tech startups, and innovation-forward corporates. You’ll scope strategy, design creative engagement structures, direct analysis, and help translate insights into pilots, tools, and venture concepts that can scale. This is not a role for someone who prefers a playbook; this is for someone who knows when to write a new one. You’ll act as the primary interface for client stakeholders, lead internal and external workstreams, and play a critical role in shaping how Realize builds ventures, validates new ideas, and turns early concepts into products and commercial offerings, particularly around emerging grid technologies. What You’ll Do Client & Project Leadership Own and run client engagements from initial framing through delivery Serve as the primary client point of contact, translating ambiguous goals into executable strategies and clear build/test priorities Scope and deliver analytical, commercial, and strategic outputs, often in fast-moving, ambiguous environments Structure workshops, develop discovery frameworks, and synthesize insights that help clients make real-world decisions about what to pilot, build, or scale Strategic Innovation Design and test new business models with utilities and their partners Bring a systems-thinking lens to engagements that span infrastructure, policy, market development, and product