The Engagement Manager is the quarterback of Realize 2050’s consulting teams. You’ll lead day-to-day execution across projects with utilities, energy tech startups, and innovation-forward corporates. You’ll scope strategy, design creative engagement structures, direct analysis, and help translate insights into pilots, tools, and venture concepts that can scale. This is not a role for someone who prefers a playbook; this is for someone who knows when to write a new one.
You’ll act as the primary interface for client stakeholders, lead internal and external workstreams, and play a critical role in shaping how Realize builds ventures, validates new ideas, and turns early concepts into products and commercial offerings, particularly around emerging grid technologies.
What You’ll DoClient & Project Leadership
Own and run client engagements from initial framing through delivery
Serve as the primary client point of contact, translating ambiguous goals into executable strategies and clear build/test priorities
Scope and deliver analytical, commercial, and strategic outputs, often in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Structure workshops, develop discovery frameworks, and synthesize insights that help clients make real-world decisions about what to pilot, build, or scale
Strategic Innovation
Design and test new business models with utilities and their partners
Bring a systems-thinking lens to engagements that span infrastructure, policy, market development, and product adoption
Identify whitespace opportunities for spinouts, commercialization, or productization of new capabilities
Help shape internal IP and toolkits for engagement repeatability and reusable product or platform concepts
Team Development
Manage 1–3-person teams on most projects, including analysts and subject-matter collaborators
Provide thoughtful feedback and mentorship to support skill growth
Collaborate with senior partners to refine Realize’s consulting and venture- and product-building offerings
6+ years of relevant experience in strategy consulting, energy innovation, product development, or venture building
A consulting toolkit (problem structuring, stakeholder synthesis, slide design, analysis) paired with experience taking ideas from concept to pilot or MVP
Experience with energy system actors: utilities, developers, government, or gridtech startups
Strong financial modeling skills and an ability to quickly structure models in new domains (e.g., PPAs, undergrounding economics, DER value stacks)
Comfort working with emerging tech, including AI and energy software
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
Curiosity, urgency, and humility
Experience working inside a utility or leading engagements for them
A track record of launching or advising early-stage ventures or products
Exposure to grid planning, data center siting, distributed energy, or grid modernization
Familiarity with public-private funding strategies or energy policy
Meaningful work that shapes the future of the grid and energy innovation
Flat, entrepreneurial culture where your ideas can become ventures
Exposure to top-tier clients and founders across the energy ecosystem
Competitive compensation and flexibility in where and how you work
This is a contract with Potential toward W2.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of relevant experience in strategy consulting, energy innovation, product development, or venture building.
- Consulting toolkit: problem structuring, stakeholder synthesis, slide design, and analysis; experience moving ideas to pilot or MVP.
- Experience working with energy system actors: utilities, developers, government, or gridtech startups.
- Strong financial modeling skills and ability to quickly structure models in new domains (e.g., PPAs, undergrounding economics, DER value stacks).
- Comfort working with emerging technologies, including AI and energy software.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage and mentor small teams (typically 1-3 people).
- Experience inside a utility or leading utility engagements.
- Track record launching or advising early-stage ventures or products.
- Exposure to grid planning, data center siting, distributed energy, or grid modernization.
- Familiarity with public-private funding strategies or energy policy.
What We Do
Realize 2050 is an energy solutions consultancy and venture studio that partners with utilities, large corporations, governments, and startups to launch and scale new businesses and business models. They combine deep energy system expertise with an entrepreneurial perspective to drive the energy transition, focusing on unlocking emerging technologies and orchestrating strategic partnerships to create a clean, affordable, and abundant energy system by 2050.
