Engagement Manager

Workday Workday · Enterprise · New York, NY

Workday is seeking an Engagement Manager to lead strategic customer engagements for their AI platform focused on managing people, money, and agents. The role involves end-to-end ownership of complex, multi-phase implementations, driving value realization, and orchestrating cross-functional teams. The Engagement Manager will work with senior customer stakeholders, manage project delivery, drive adoption, and provide strategic guidance to ensure customer success and identify expansion opportunities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own end-to-end customer engagements
  2. Lead project and program delivery
  3. Engage senior customer stakeholders
  4. Drive adoption and measurable impact
  5. Provide strategic and solution guidance
  6. Collaborate cross-functionally and with partners

Skills

Required

  • Project management
  • Program management
  • Consultative mindset
  • Commercial awareness
  • Stakeholder management
  • Customer success
  • Solution design
  • Change management
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Communication
  • Problem-solving

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI platforms
  • Experience in the learning/knowledge management domain

What the JD emphasized

  • AI platform for managing people, money, and agents
  • revolutionise how humans access knowledge through artificial intelligence
  • drive long-term value realisation for our enterprise customers
  • complex, multi-phase implementations
  • senior owner of some of Sana’s most strategic customer engagements
  • accountable for successful implementation and ongoing value realisation
  • Lead complex deployments of Sana for medium and large enterprise customers
  • Define and manage project scope, plan, timelines, risks, and dependencies across multiple work streams
  • Ensure delivery within the budget and scope outlined in the Statement of Work
  • Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with executive sponsors and key decision makers
  • Facilitate steering committees and executive readouts, clearly articulating progress, risks, and business impact
  • Align Sana’s roadmap and capabilities with the customer’s strategic priorities and success metrics
  • Define, track, and report on success metrics and KPIs for each engagement
  • Work closely with customer project managers and business owners to promote adoption, ensure change readiness, and drive continuous improvement
  • Identify optimisation and expansion opportunities that increase the value customers realise from Sana
  • Translate business requirements into solution designs and implementation plans in collaboration with Solution Engineering and Product
  • Advise customers on best practices for learning, change management, and digital adoption, leveraging Sana’s capabilities
  • Challenge and refine customer requirements where needed to ensure viable, scalable, and high-impact solutions
  • Work effectively with Sales to scope new engagements, shape proposals, and ensure a smooth transition from pre‑sales to delivery
  • Manage third-party partners or vendors as part of the overall project team, maintaining accountability for overall outcomes
  • Provide structured feedback to Product and Engineering based on customer needs and deployment learnings