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 adoption

Identify whitespace opportunities for spinouts, commercialization, or productization of new capabilities

Help shape internal IP and toolkits for engagement repeatability and reusable product or platform concepts

Team Development

Manage 1–3-person teams on most projects, including analysts and subject-matter collaborators

Provide thoughtful feedback and mentorship to support skill growth

Collaborate with senior partners to refine Realize’s consulting and venture- and product-building offerings

You Might Be a Fit If You Have

6+ years of relevant experience in strategy consulting, energy innovation, product development, or venture building

A consulting toolkit (problem structuring, stakeholder synthesis, slide design, analysis) paired with experience taking ideas from concept to pilot or MVP

Experience with energy system actors: utilities, developers, government, or gridtech startups

Strong financial modeling skills and an ability to quickly structure models in new domains (e.g., PPAs, undergrounding economics, DER value stacks)

Comfort working with emerging tech, including AI and energy software

Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills

Curiosity, urgency, and humility

Bonus Points For

Experience working inside a utility or leading engagements for them

A track record of launching or advising early-stage ventures or products

Exposure to grid planning, data center siting, distributed energy, or grid modernization

Familiarity with public-private funding strategies or energy policy

What We Offer

Meaningful work that shapes the future of the grid and energy innovation

Flat, entrepreneurial culture where your ideas can become ventures

Exposure to top-tier clients and founders across the energy ecosystem

Competitive compensation and flexibility in where and how you work

This is a contract with Potential toward W2.

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