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Senior Technical Engagement Manager

Lead high-stakes customer engagements as a Senior Technical Engagement Manager at Redpanda Data.

Location
United States
Compensation
$139k–$163k/yr
Level
senior
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 1 day ago

First seen on Joblaze 11 hours ago

Last verified on the company career page 11 hours ago

What you'll build

  • Manage relationships with key stakeholders
  • Own and maintain project plans
  • Serve as the senior escalation point
  • Ensure projects are resourced and delivered
  • Build out key program playbooks

Must have

  • 8+ years in engagement management
  • Proven experience as a PM for engineering teams
  • Experience running formal risk and issue governance
  • Technical fluency in distributed systems
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

  • Certifications: PMP or Scrum
  • Comfort operating in politically complex environments
  • Flexibility to travel to customer sites

Requirements

Experience
8+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Joblaze summary

The Senior Technical Engagement Manager at Redpanda Data is responsible for leading high-stakes projects with enterprise clients, ensuring successful implementation of the Agentic Data Plane. This role requires expertise in engagement management and technical program delivery, particularly in complex technology environments. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in project management, especially within systems integration or enterprise software, and possess strong communication skills to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics. Redpanda's focus on governance and control in data interactions positions this role at the intersection of innovation and compliance.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 23, 2026. Last confirmed on Redpanda Data's careers page October 23, 2026.
  • Salary band is below the typical range for Management roles (median ~$170,000).
  • Starts above 41% of 17 comparable senior management roles in United States that list Project Management we track (median $142,630 across 13 companies).
  • Project Management appears in 3.2% of 990 comparable senior management roles in United States; streaming appears in 0.1% of 990 comparable senior management roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Senior Technical Engagement Manager role remote?
It's hybrid — Redpanda Data expects some on-site time in United States.
What's the salary range?
Redpanda Data lists $139,000–$163,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Senior Technical Engagement Manager role.
Where is the role based?
Redpanda Data is hiring for this position in United States.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Agile, Data Infrastructure, Project Management, Risk Management, distributed systems, streaming.
What seniority level is this role?
Redpanda Data targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Senior Technical Engagement Manager role at Redpanda Data.

From the original posting

Join our growing Customer Success Engineering organization as a Senior Technical Engagement Manager, leading a pod responsible for high-stakes engagements alongside our Forward Deployed Engineers.

In this role, you'll drive strategic projects with customers as they implement our Agentic Data Plane. Working with large enterprises, you'll be responsible for scoping, planning, and executing multi-phase engagements aligned to business outcomes.

You Will:

  • Manage relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and within our customers

  • Own and maintain project plans to ensure ongoing delivery that drives agreed-upon outcomes

  • Serve as the senior escalation point for both the customer and internal delivery teams on your accounts

  • Ensure projects within your pod are resourced and delivered against plan, raising and escalating risk as required

  • Establish the credibility and judgment to push back on inappropriate timelines, change in scope or risks to agreed-upon deliverables

  • Partner with Account Executives and Solutions Engineers on the pre- to post-sales handover, confirming scope,timelines and success criteria are documented for a seamless kickoff

  • Build out key program playbooks and toolkits to drive repeatability across engagements and enable scale.

You Have:

  • 8+ years in engagement management, delivery leadership, or technical program/project management on complex enterprise technology deployments, ideally at a systems integrator (e.g., Deloitte, Capgemini, Accenture) or an enterprise software vendor

  • Certifications: PMP or Scrum

  • Proven experience as a PM for engineering or services teams focused on agile delivery

  • Experience running formal risk and issue governance — risk registers, RAID logs, steering committees — with real influence over decisions

  • Comfort operating in politically complex stakeholder environments, with the seniority to escalate to and negotiate with customer and internal executives

  • Technical fluency in distributed systems, streaming, or data infrastructure (e.g., Kafka, Redpanda) sufficient to understand delivery and technical risk, without needing to write the code yourself

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting to a CIO and negotiating scope with an SI delivery lead

  • Flexibility to travel to customer sites for high-stakes engagements

 

U.S. base salary range for this role is $139,000 - $163,000, not including bonus and/or commission. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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