Engagement Manager
Job Summary
Job Description
The Rackspace Engagement Manager manages multiple medium-to-large, moderately complex projects with high risk exposure. Responsibilities include developing project plans, managing customer relationships, aligning business objectives with service delivery, creating reports demonstrating service value, collaborating with engineers, leading root cause analysis, and presenting to executives. The role requires strong project management skills, experience with cloud technologies, and the ability to work in a fast-paced consulting environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and solid understanding of SDLC methodologies (Agile and traditional).
Must have:
- Project planning & execution
- Customer relationship management
- Report creation & data analysis
- Collaboration with engineering teams
- Root cause analysis
- Executive presentations
- Cloud technology knowledge
- SDLC understanding
Good to have:
- Project Management Professional
- Certified Scrum Master
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
6 skills required
Job Details
The Rackspace Engagement Manager will manage several individual but related projects to the required standard of quality within the specified constraints of time and cost for the customer. The projects are typically medium to large, with medium complexity and have high risk exposure. Ensures the coherence of the Program and develops and maintains the appropriate environment to support each individual project within it. Responsible for the program producing a result which is capable of achieving the benefits defined in the Statement of Work. Responsible for adhering to company security policies and procedures and any other relevant policies and standards as directed.
Work Location: Remote
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop project plans, defines timeframe, prioritizes tasks and monitors progress to achieve objectives.
- Manage customers, aligning business objectives with coordinated service deliveries, and ensure that our customers maximize the value they are seeing from their investment.
- Work with customers by utilizing your project management skills to put together on-boarding schedules and tasks.
- Provide guidance on how best to utilize our services, provide an escalation point for issues, and help provide reporting to ensure customers’ faith in the service.
- Create monthly and quarterly business reports to customers that demonstrate the ongoing value that our services provide.
- Collaborate with cloud engineers on ongoing backlog grooming and seek out new work within the bounds of active customer engagements.
- Lead the root cause analysis effort with the delivery team, when issues within a customer engagement arise.
- Coordinate different stakeholder perspectives to develop solutions; thinks holistically to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries.
- Make accurate judgments regarding time required to complete work; proactively manages team to ensure deadlines are successfully met; balances priorities simultaneously and seeks guidance when necessary.
- Conducts presentations in executive settings to convey project management, risk and technical information to stakeholders with varying comprehension levels.
- Use prescribed guidelines or processes in analyzing situations.
- Profile customer stakeholders to gain awareness of differing perspectives.
- Anticipate and take action to accomplish objectives; finds alternatives; accepts ownership for individual and team performance.
- Manage multiple tasks with constrained resources, determining relative urgency to make difficult trade-offs; maintains focus despite competing priorities and frequent context shifting.
- Identify methods for collecting data, performs data analyses and articulates findings.
- Develop simple models to understand the potential impacts of decisions under various scenarios.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in field related to role required. At the Manager's discretion, 4 years of additional related experience may substitute for the degree requirement; if substitution allowed, regional equivalent to High School Diploma is required.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in the field of role required.
- The following certs are preferred: Project Management Professional, Certified Scrum Master, AWS Cloud Practitioner.
- Solid understanding of SDLC and when to apply agile vs. traditional methodologies to achieve the best outcome.
- Knowledge in filtering and providing data and reports to customers, utilizing PowerPoint and Excel.
- Customer-facing consulting experience or experience delivering technology services projects
- Familiarity with cloud technologies, software development, networking infrastructure, data, and/or security
- Technical background (software development/engineering, database/system design, IaaS)
- Self-starter with results oriented, proactive management approach
- Ability to learn on the job quickly and desire to develop expertise in AWS
- Ability to work in a fast-paced consulting environment and collaborate effectively as a team member
- Travel: Occasional domestic/international travel, less than 50%
- Sponsorship: Candidates need to be legally allowed to work in the US for any employer without sponsorship
Discover your inner Racker: Racker Life
#LI-JR1
#LI-Remote
The following information is required by pay transparency legislation in the following states: CA, CO, HI, NY, and WA. This information applies only to individuals working in these states.
•The anticipated starting pay range for Colorado is: $69,900 - $102,520.
•The anticipated starting pay range for the states of Hawaii and New York (not including NYC) is: $74,400 - $109,120.
•The anticipated starting pay range for California, New York City and Washington is: $81,500 - $119,460.
Unless already included in the posted pay range and based on eligibility, the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonus, commissions, or other discretionary payments. These discretionary payments are based on company and/or individual performance and may change at any time. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.
About Rackspace Technology
We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.
More on Rackspace Technology
Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Similar Jobs
Normalyze
California, United States (Remote)
• 6 Months ago
PlayStation Global
Madison, Wisconsin, United States (On-Site)
• 3 Months ago
Alpha Sense
New York, New York, United States (Hybrid)
• 4 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Similar Skill Jobs
Twitch
San Francisco, California, United States (On-Site)
• 2 Months ago
Genies
Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
• 7 Months ago
Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Remote)
• 1 Month ago
The Walt Disney Company
San Francisco, California, United States (On-Site)
• 1 Month ago
Inkittt
San Francisco, California, United States (Hybrid)
• 3 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Jobs in United States
Blinkhealth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States (On-Site)
• 1 Month ago
Epic Games
Cary, North Carolina, United States (On-Site)
• 3 Months ago
ByteDance
San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
• 5 Months ago
ByteDance
San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
• 6 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
Product Management Jobs
![PearlAbyss - [Pearl Abyss Europe] Project Manager](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Foutscal-assets.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com%2Fproduction%2Fcompany%2F01_08_2025__12_37_00.jpg&w=256&q=50)
PearlAbyss
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (On-Site)
• 3 Months ago
PwC
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France (On-Site)
• 6 Months ago
Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded
