Engagement Manager (Consulting & Strategy)

4MATIV Technologies manages multi-modal mobility for school systems nationwide with technology to expand options and enhance service. We envision a future where all children have access to the learning opportunities that maximize their potential, and we are reimagining transportation to accelerate student outcomes. 

We partner with schools to improve service, safety, and holistic sustainability, ensuring all students have access to the right ride. Currently, we manage transportation for over 50 school districts across cities including Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Phoenix, simplifying operations and expanding services for families. Every school day, 4MATIV manages outsourced vendors and operates a contact center supporting more than 22,000 student trips across over 1,000 routes for schools across the country.

Our team is committed to:

• Working shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients as a mission-aligned and trusted partner
• Building user-centered products to create lasting impact for districts and students
• Valuing diversity of perspectives and experiences
• Care for every detail and outcome
• Highest standards of service and safety
• Constant learning and improvement

4MATIV is a rapidly growing company with an increasingly broad portfolio of clients. The Engagement Manager will serve as the day-to-day leader for designated consulting engagements, beginning with spearheading smaller and mid-sized client partnerships while supporting larger district engagements led by senior consulting leadership.

This role blends analytical rigor, client leadership, and implementation-minded problem solving. The Engagement Manager is expected to contribute directly to analysis, synthesis, and deliverable development while also managing client relationships, facilitating meetings, structuring workplans, and helping clients translate findings into practical action.

The ideal candidate is highly analytical, highly credible in client-facing settings, and able to move fluidly between quantitative problem solving and executive communication. This position will combine substantial hands-on analytical contribution with engagement leadership. Over time, the role is expected to evolve toward broader ownership of engagement strategy, client partnership, and team leadership.

The Engagement Manager will report to the Chief of Client Services and work closely with the Vice President of Consulting.

Flexible / Remote with travel to client sites as needed

• Serve as day-to-day engagement lead for designated clients, ensuring strong execution, responsiveness, and relationship quality
• Facilitate client meetings, focus groups, and working sessions that produce clarity, alignment, and forward movement
• Lead development of workplans, engagement pacing, and client-facing project structure
• Develop clear memos, presentations, and decision-support materials that translate analysis into actionable recommendations
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis with self-direction, including operational, financial, policy, and service design analysis
• Scope methodologies for analyses and guide analytical work completed by analysts and other team members
• Review analyses completed by others to assess logical, technical, or interpretive choices
• Interpret findings, identify the core data story, and shape executive-level implications
• Translate client challenges into operationally realistic solution designs
• Support effective implementation—and business development—by helping clients move from recommendation to action through practical sequencing, operating models, and decision frameworks
• Coordinate across consulting and managed services teams when engagements involve both advisory and operational components
• Contribute to proposal development, scope design, and expansion opportunities within existing client relationships
• Support development of consulting methods, templates, and repeatable internal practices

• Bachelor’s degree in public policy, education, economics, engineering, business, or related field (Master’s preferred)
• Five (5) or more years of relevant experience in consulting, education strategy, operations, analytics, or professional services
• Experience managing projects and leading client-facing workstreams
• Experience conducting and interpreting quantitative analysis in operational or policy settings
• Experience in K–12 education, transportation, logistics, or public sector work preferred

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides
• Basic proficiency in Python; strong proficiency in a coding language
• Proficiency working with data visualization tools such as PowerBI or Tableau
• Experience structuring analyses across multiple data sources
• Ability to review technical analytical outputs for quality and logic
• Proficiency using AI tools to improve analytical efficiency, written synthesis, and workflow quality
• Experience leading process design and continuous improvement
• Familiarity with route design and optimization concepts
• Experience integrating SIS platforms with other data systems via SFTP/API preferred

• Client leadership: Builds trust quickly and manages client interactions with maturity and clarity.
• Problem solving: Able to move beyond producing analysis to defining the right analytical question and interpreting implications. Diagnoses ambiguous problems and develops practical paths forward.
• Communication: Simplifies complex findings into compelling executive narratives. Exhibits strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to engage diverse stakeholders clearly and professionally.
• Implementation mindset: Designs recommendations that are operationally realistic and actionable. Maintains consistent focus on the overarching purpose of an engagement, ensuring deliverables meet client needs while considering the user experience and perspective. 
• Judgment: Balances rigor, speed, and practicality across changing client conditions. Takes initiative, working independently with minimal supervision. Effectively manages and prioritizes multiple tasks. 

Salary Range: $100,000 – $120,000 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance