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.