Skylight

Staff/Principal Engagement Manager

United States · Principal · Contract

No sponsorship$90k-$125kDetected 21 hours ago

CybersecurityProduct ManagementProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementBusiness DevelopmentLeadershipMentoring

About the role

We're at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.
If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we'd love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.
About the job At Skylight, engagement managers are responsible for driving the overall success of our client work.

Lead a cross-functional team of researchers, designers, and engineers to build and ship high-impact products and services
Partner closely with engineers on architecture, integrations, and the secure data exchanges, making informed tradeoffs about technical feasibility, sequencing, and risk
Build and support a healthy, psychologically safe team, and coach individuals through the ambiguity and complexity that come with government work
Can develop a product strategy informed by the problem to be solved, prioritizing outcomes over feature sets, and establish the direction of the product over time
Ability to manage clients and stakeholders in a way that builds trust, alignment, and healthy environments for individuals and teams
Technical fluency sufficient to partner with engineers on architecture, APIs and integrations, and security and compliance tradeoffs, and to translate between technical and non-technical audiences
You'll set direction in partnership with the agency, assemble and support a multidisciplinary team, navigate the privacy and security realities of working with federal information, and keep delivery moving against federal milestones.
This is a senior leadership role for someone who can hold the "what to build and why," the "how it's built," and the "how this engagement succeeds" in the same hand.

Ability to execute a product strategy by breaking scope into usable chunks of value, maintaining a prioritized backlog of validated user stories, and facilitating team ceremonies
Experience setting direction and standards across multiple workstreams or teams, and coaching other practitioners (principal level)
Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
Ability to travel for work from time to time
Hands-on or prior engineering background, or experience as a technical product manager working closely with engineering teams
Experience growing engagements through business development on a professional services or consulting team
Don't meet every qualification but think you can do the job?
We want you to have a great interview experience with us!

Visit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works.
Check out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.

We want to give you the most competitive salary possible.
To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority.
For an Engagement Manager at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:
Associate Engagement Manager: $90,000-$125,000
Engagement Manager I: $120,000-$140,000
Engagement Manager II: $135,000-$160,000
Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year

Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
Flexible paid time-off-policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
Flexible, remote-friendly work environment

You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.

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