Avathon
Engagement Director - Forward Deployed Engineering
Pleasanton, California, United States · Director
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About the role
- The Engagement Director is Avathon's most senior client-facing delivery leader - accountable for the commercial health, executive relationships, and strategic outcomes of our largest and most complex customer engagements.
- You operate at the intersection of delivery accountability and business development, ensuring that every engagement Avathon undertakes becomes a reference win, a contract expansion, and a long-term strategic alliance.
Responsibilities
- Own executive relationships at the VP, SVP, and C-suite level across Avathon's strategic accounts - serving as the trusted senior partner who connects delivery outcomes to business value
- Lead executive business reviews (EBRs) and steering committee meetings - presenting progress, value realization metrics, and forward-looking roadmap with authority and credibility
- Own engagement P&L - tracking revenue recognition, managing cost to deliver, forecasting margins, and optimizing profitability without compromising outcomes
- Drive continuous improvement across the FDE delivery practice - institutionalizing lessons learned, refining delivery playbooks, and raising the standard of execution with every engagement
- Partner with Sales and Account Management to shape statements of work, commercial terms, and engagement structures that are both compelling to clients and commercially sound for Avathon
- Own renewal, upsell,
Requirements
- You are equally at home in an operational steering committee and a C-suite business review, and you bring the commercial acumen to identify, shape, and close expansion opportunities from within the delivery motion.
Benefits
- Define and drive the long-term engagement strategy for each account: expansion roadmap, capability phasing, success milestones, and multi-year partnership vision
- Oversee the delivery health of multiple concurrent engagements - setting governance standards, holding program managers accountable to scope, schedule, and quality, and intervening on at-risk programs
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- You lead multiple concurrent engagements across strategic accounts, managing cross-functional FDE teams — program managers, technical architects, AI engineers, and change management leads — while maintaining direct executive sponsorship rel
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