The Role
About Egen:
Egen is a fast-growing and entrepreneurial company with a data-first mindset. We bring together the best engineering talent working with the most advanced technology platforms, including Google Cloud and Salesforce, to help clients drive action and impact through data and insights. We are committed to being a place where the best people choose to work so they can apply their engineering and technology expertise to envision what is next for how data and platforms can change the world for the better. We are dedicated to learning, thrive on solving tough problems, and continually innovate to achieve fast, effective results. If this describes you, we want you on our team.
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About the opportunity:
Egen is seeking a highly collaborative, detail-oriented Senior Resource Management & Staffing Lead to own and operate our end-to-end staffing function across our global delivery teams. This role sits at the intersection of Sales, Pre-Sales, Delivery, and Talent Acquisition, ensuring that the right people are deployed to the right work at the right time.
You will manage open staffing requests, maintain real-time visibility into consultant availability and utilization, and proactively identify gaps between demand and supply. In close partnership with the People team, you will also serve as a liaison, supporting Practice Leaders through thoughtful workforce planning, talent deployment decisions, and capability development. When staffing needs cannot be met with existing talent, you will partner closely with the Talent Acquisition team to prioritize new requisitions.
This role is both strategic and hands-on - ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving consulting environments and enjoys bringing structure, clarity, and data to complex decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Staffing & Resource Management
- Own the full lifecycle of global staffing requests across all active and upcoming client engagements.
- Partner closely with Sales, Pre-Sales, and Delivery Leadership to understand project scope, timing, skill requirements, and client priorities.
- Match consultants to project roles based on skills, experience, availability, regionalities, utilization targets, and career development goals.
- Actively manage and optimize the bench, identifying short-term deployment opportunities and longer-term skill or capacity gaps.
- Align with Practice Leads to define common profiles for hiring consistency, as well as a clear definition of levels globally.
- Demand Forecasting & Capacity Planning
- Maintain an accurate, forward-looking view of demand relative to available capacity.
- Translate pipeline and delivery forecasts into actionable staffing plans.
- Provide clear, data-backed recommendations on hiring needs, timing, and required skill profiles.
- Proactively rotate bench talent across the portfolio based on pipeline and future opportunity trends to align with business direction and reduce time-to-fill for resource requisitions.
- Talent Acquisition Partnership
- When internal supply does not meet demand, collaborate with Talent Acquisition to address both ongoing pipeline needs and one-off hiring requirements by:
- Opening new requisitions
- Defining role requirements, priorities, and success profiles
- Aligning on timing, urgency, and pipeline approach (e.g., continuous vs. role-specific hiring)Serve as a key input into hiring decisions by grounding reqs in real client and delivery needs.
- Process, Systems & Reporting
- Design, improve, and operate scalable staffing and resource management processes, gaining alignment with key stakeholders.
- Lead staffing cadences (e.g., weekly staffing meetings) and ensure clear communication across stakeholders.
- Maintain and evolve skills inventories and resource data to support informed staffing decisions, while proactively identifying and influencing cross-department process improvements that enhance staffing accuracy, efficiency, and forward visibility.
- Produce reporting and insights on utilization, capacity, staffing gaps, and trends for leadership.
- Partner with Operations to enhance and optimize systems, including Certinia, Salesforce, and related tooling.
- Strategic Support
- Support mid- and long-term workforce planning aligned to Egen’s growth strategy.
- Help leadership make informed decisions around utilization targets, team growth, and service line investment.
Skills & Experience:
- 7+ years of experience in professional services operations, with at least 5 years in resource management, staffing, or workforce planning within an IT/consulting environment.
- Willingness to roll up sleeves and operate in a hands-on, execution-focused role.
- Experience with Professional Services Automation (PSA) and related operational systems; experience with Certinia and Salesforce preferred.
- Proven experience managing technical staffing across multiple concurrent, global engagements with competing priorities.
- Strong understanding of consulting delivery models, utilization, and capacity planning.
- Highly data-driven; possesses a strong understanding of data structures and data relationships, and is comfortable using metrics, dashboards, summarized/aggregated data, data queries, and GenAI tools to autonomously solve simple to moderately complex problems and inform decisions.
- Familiarity with modern technology consulting skillsets (e.g., cloud, data, engineering, platforms, GenAI / ML / Data).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.Exceptionally organized, proactive, and comfortable operating with ambiguity.
Compensation & Benefits:
This role is eligible for our competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package to support your well-being:
- Comprehensive Health Insurance
- Paid Leave (Vacation/PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Sick Leave
- Parental Leave
- Bereavement Leave
- 401 (k) Employer Match
- Employee Referral Bonuses
Check out our complete list of benefits here - >https://egen.ai/people/#benefits
Important: All roles are subject to standard hiring verification practices, which may include background checks, employment verification, and other relevant checks.
EEO and Accommodations:
Egen is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Egen will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Egen welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.
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What We Do
Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm partnering with leading Chicagoland companies to launch, scale, and modernize industry-changing technologies. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary. Our mission is to be an enabler of amazing possibilities for companies looking to use the power of cloud and data. We want to stand shoulder to shoulder with clients, as true technology partners, and make sure they succeed at what they have set out to do. We want to be disruptors, game-changers, and innovators who have played an important part in moving the world forward.
