Senior Engagement Manager

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀 Engagement Management is a new and fast-growing practice at ClickUp, and it's quickly becoming central to how we serve our enterprise customers. Our EMs bring program leadership, service delivery and change management together in one role. As a ClickUp Senior Engagement Manager you will lead the formation and orchestration of post-sale strategy and execution for the company’s largest and most strategic clients. We're looking for someone hungry, who excels in building, and who takes genuine pride in the quality of their work. Here, Engagement Managers are the single point of accountability for outcomes. You own everything between the contract being signed and the client seeing measurable results: what was sold gets delivered, on time and on margin, and we can prove it worked. You'll lead enterprise SaaS implementations across the full engagement lifecycle, from shaping scope in pre-sales, mobilizing the team and delivery, go-live, stabilization and a clean handover to the account team. You'll run work-stream programs with Paid TAMs, AI specialists, Product and Engineering, and the client's own project team, and you'll be the trusted advisor to the client's executive sponsor.   Simply put: you are the single point of accountability for delivery, the client's partner in getting value from ClickUp, and a thought leader for how we deliver.   Your role Stakeholder Management Serve as the primary client contact for delivery Build strong relationships with stakeholders while ensuring delivery remains aligned to client objectives and contractual commitments. Build trusted relationships with client executive sponsors and program leads at VP and C-level, acting as their primary point of contact for delivery. Navigate complex enterprise stakeholder environments and competing priorities across client functions (IT, PMO, business sponsors, procurement) and broker alignment when they conflict. Project Delivery Oversight Deliver engagements against agreed scope, schedule, hours budget and quality, using rigorous change control to protect timelines and delivery margin. Translate customer business requirements into internal deliverables and milestones Own engagement governance, including kickoffs, weekly working sessions, sponsor check-ins and SteerCos, and provide clear, concise status reporting to clients and internal stakeholders. Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams, fostering a collaborative, accountable and high-performing delivery culture while providing coaching, direction and support. Proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies through the RAID log, and act as the primary escalation point. Manage engagement financials, including hours burn, forecasting, utilisation and margin, flagging overrun risk early and agreeing recovery plans. Drive AI adoption Guide clients from manual workflows to AI-assisted and agent-driven operations, and own post-go-live adoption outcomes. Drive Value and Business Outcomes Identify expansion opportunities through delivery and co-sell with Account Executives, bringing the delivery credibility that secures follow-on work. Establish a value baseline before configuration begins, track benefits through go-live, and produce the value assessment that underpins renewal and expansion. Governance Design and run governance mechanisms Track delivery efficacy, timelines, value realization and customer experience Create continuous-improvement mechanisms Change Management & Communication Own communications around delivery status, risks and outcomes Manage escalation and commun