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Who You Are

You are a quality-driven, experienced engagement leader with a strong track record delivering complex, custom software and design engagements in consulting environments, over 10+ years. You bring together delivery rigor, product thinking, client partnership, and people leadership enabling high-performing teams while driving meaningful outcomes for clients and for 8th Light.

You operate comfortably in increasingly data-intensive and AI-enabled environments, applying sound judgment to build trust, align stakeholders, and drive meaningful outcomes in complex delivery contexts.

You Also Have

• Deep hands-on experience with a variety of delivery methodologies and frameworks, including fluency with Agile (Scrum, Kanban), and the judgment to adapt PDLC and SDLC practices to context, scale, risk profile, and client maturity.
• Proven experience integrating AI-enabled tools and workflows to rethink discovery, delivery, and decision-making.
• Demonstrated success leading and overseeing multiple software engagements across a variety of clients, products, and industries.
• Built trusted, long-term relationships with senior client delivery, product, and technology leaders.
• Led inclusive, cross-functional forums that support discovery, alignment, decision-making, and problem-solving.
• Made thoughtful recommendations and set clear direction in the face of ambiguity, risk, and competing priorities.
• Served as a career manager and coach, supporting the growth, performance, and engagement of team members.
• Communicated clearly and empathetically with executives, clients, and colleagues, balancing advocacy, transparency, and accountability.
  
  

What You’ll Do At 8th Light

As an engagement leader, you’ll oversee multiple client accounts, partnering closely with account and practice leaders to drive delivery excellence, client outcomes, and business growth. You’ll be accountable for engagement health, delivery quality, client relationships, utilization, and people leadership.

You’ll Also

• Serve as an embedded, trusted advisor to client executives and senior leaders, providing guidance on delivery strategy, organizational dynamics, and decision-making in complex, evolving environments.
• Act as the day-to-day orchestrator of client engagements, aligning teams, stakeholders, and delivery practices to ensure clarity, momentum, and consistent progress toward outcomes.
• Participate in account planning, opportunity identification, and business development activities in partnership with account leadership.
• Develop and maintain multi-horizon roadmaps, delivery plans, and release strategies across complex or long-running engagements.
• Enable teams to focus on outcomes by absorbing complexity and ambiguity at the engagement and portfolio level.
• Partner with teams and clients to generate solutions to technical, delivery, organizational, and relationship challenges.
• Identify, mitigate, and resolve blockers to team progress.
• Monitor and evolve engagement operating models as teams, clients, and products mature, adapting ways of working to support learning, scale, and long-term outcomes.
• Coordinate with fellow career managers to ensure consistent feedback, development support, and career progression for team members.
• Contribute to the health of your teams and 8th Light’s culture by coaching direct reports, modeling our Values and supporting an inclusive, collaborative environment.
• Contribute to 8th Light by serving as a mentor, leading or designing workshops internally or for clients, representing 8th Light in the tech community, or supporting our hiring processes.
  
  

Strongly Preferred Skills

We work across many domains and encourage candidates with relevant experience to apply. We are particularly interested in candidates who bring experience in:

• Account leadership, including participation in account planning, opportunity shaping, and client growth initiatives.
• A strong technical background that enables effective partnership with senior engineers, architects, and designers.