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AI Engagement Manager

Crossing Hurdles
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/6/2026

Crossing Hurdles is a global recruitment firm partnering with an AI engineering company building production-grade agents for enterprise operations.


Quick Snapshot:

Role: AI Engagement Manager

Compensation: $200K $320K (base equity)

Location: On-site (San Francisco)

Experience: 4 years of experience in management consulting at a top-tier firm, owning client engagements

Focus: Client engagements, AI deployments, and executive stakeholder management


What will you be doing:

  • Own client accounts end-to-end from engaging C-suite stakeholders and running interviews with middle management and ICs to understand their workflows, to ensuring successful project delivery
  • Lead a team of 2 junior consultants/strategists on each engagement, managing their day-to-day work and ensuring quality output
  • Ramp up on existing project context, understand client sentiment, and identify pain points across multiple concurrent engagements (finance, sales, marketing, ops departments)
  • Scope new AI agent implementations by translating ambiguous business problems into clear engagement plans with defined outcomes and ROI targets
  • Travel 10-20% of the time to client sites, representing it with the executive presence and polish that makes clients feel confident in the partnership


Why You Should Consider:

  • Executive exposure Partner directly with C-suite leaders at billion-dollar enterprises
  • High ownership Lead client engagements end-to-end from discovery through delivery
  • AI transformation Help companies deploy production AI agents into mission-critical workflows
  • Fast-growth environment Join an elite, high-agency team at an early stage of growth

Salary : $200,000 - $320,000

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