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Director, Engagement Lead

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Dallas, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 4/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/2/2026
Great companies need great teams to propel their operations. Join the group that solves business challenges and enhances the way we work and grow. Working at Gainwell carries its rewards. You'll have an incredible opportunity to grow your career in a company that values your contributions and puts a premium on work flexibility, learning, and career development.

Summary

Leads the company's key client implementation initiatives through our global delivery networks with a focus on ensuring quality and consistency of delivery to our clients. Ensure that the delivery of implementation projects meets contractual specifications. Provides decisive leadership across delivery teams, owns executive?level client communication, and serves as the final authority for delivery tradeoffs required to protect client outcomes and contractual obligations. This role serves as the Engagement Lead for complex client implementations, including highly regulated Medicaid Enterprise environments, acting as the primary client leadership partner and single point of accountability through successful delivery and outcomes.

Your role in our mission

  • Applies and reinforces the company's delivery model within assigned engagements and provides feedback and recommendations based on implementation learnings.
  • Evaluates effectiveness of company performance in relation to contracts, delivery, and effectiveness. Recommends methods to increase performance and delivery standards.
  • Provides delivery input into proposals and change requests related to assigned engagements.
  • Partners with legal and financial teams to assess compliance with legal and financial standards and best practices. Ensures delivery model adheres to standards, policies, and best practices across the enterprise.
  • Direct and oversees engagement-level delivery budgets, ensuring alignment with contractual and portfolio financial targets.
  • Works with Portfolio Management, Delivery, Marketing/Sales, and Client Relationship Management executives to ensure alignment of processes and technology with company and customer needs.
  • Partners with Sales and Account teams to ensure successful transition from sale to delivery and alignment to contracted commitments.
  • Ensure that delivery costs are within or better than the delivery costs budgeted in contracts or internal planning activities.
  • Accountable for overall client engagement and program end?to?end outcomes; owns commitments, risk posture, governance decisions.
  • Builds and sustains senior?level client relationships that drive confidence, transparency, and long?term partnership.
  • Leads clients through complex change, aligning delivery outcomes to strategic business objectives.

What we're looking for

  • Master's degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education, experience, and leadership success.
  • 15 or more years of related experience.
  • 5 or more years in a supervisory or management capacity included.
  • Experience leading client delivery for public sector or Medicaid Enterprise programs (e.g., MMIS, MES, Eligibility, or related Medicaid programs), including work with state agencies and complex regulatory environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead through ambiguity and competing priorities.
  • Comfortable operating as the point of accountability in high?visibility situations.

What you should expect in this role

  • This position is 100% remote with up to 15% travel annually.

This posting is intended for pipelining. We will accept applications on an ongoing basis.

The pay range for this position is $127,400 - $182,000 per year, however, the base pay offered may vary depending on geographic region, internal equity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Put your passion to work at Gainwell. You'll have the opportunity to grow your career in a company that values work flexibility, learning, and career development. All salaried, full-time candidates are eligible for our generous, flexible vacation policy, a 401(k) employer match, comprehensive health benefits , and educational assistance. We also have a variety of leadership and technical development academies to help build your skills and capabilities.

We believe nothing is impossible when you bring together people who care deeply about making healthcare work better for everyone. Build your career with Gainwell, an industry leader. You'll be joining a company where collaboration, innovation, and inclusion fuel our growth. Learn more about Gainwell at our company website and visit our Careers site for all available job role openings.

Gainwell Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, where all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), age, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Gainwell Technologies defines "wages" and "wage rates" to include "all forms of pay, including, but not limited to, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, stock, stock options, profit sharing and bonus plans, life insurance, vacation and holiday pay, cleaning or gasoline allowances, hotel accommodations, reimbursement for travel expenses, and benefits.

Salary : $127,400 - $182,000

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