Client Partner / Senior Engagement Lead (Data, Analytics, & AI)

Job title : Client Partner / Engagement Manager (AI – Data Analytics)Job Location : New York / New Jersey Job description: We are looking for an Engagement Manager - Analytics with strong experience in analytics consulting with client-facing delivery, and managing data-driven projects. The role focuses on engaging with clients, understanding business needs, coordinating project execution, and ensuring smooth and high-quality delivery across analytics, data, and AI/GenAI workstreams. Key Responsibilities: Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for client stakeholders across analytics and technology teams. Lead requirement-gathering discussions to understand business challenges and analytical needs. Maintain consistent communication with clients on project status, next steps, and risks. Prepare and deliver presentations, demos, and progress updates. Delivery Management Own the end-to-end delivery of GenAI workstreams, ensuring technical feasibility and business alignment. Manage end-to-end delivery of analytics and data-centric projects across multiple workstreams. Oversee planning, sprint execution, timelines, task allocations, and delivery milestones. Ensure outputs meet quality standards and align with client expectations. Work closely with analysts, data engineers, and solution teams to translate requirements into actionable tasks. Coordinate testing, validation, and documentation to ensure smooth handoffs. Solution Coordination Actively identify and propose GenAI-driven solutions and automated workflows to solve complex business problems Support scoping, SOW creation, effort estimation, and planning for new and existing engagements. Break down business problems into structured project components and deliverables. Facilitate alignment across business, analytics, and technical teams to drive clarity and execution. Contribute inputs for designing solutions and delivery approaches involving cloud, data, and AI components. Apply a strong understanding of the GenAI App Development Lifecycle including data orchestration, LLM selection, prompt engineering, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures—to guide technical teams. Team Interaction Collaborate with distributed delivery teams to ensure alignment on tasks, priorities, and timelines. Provide guidance and clarity—ensuring all team members understand requirements and expectations. Maintain organized documentation and support knowledge transfer. Required Qualifications: 8+ years of experience in analytics consulting, client delivery, or data-focused project management. Strong experience managing cross-functional project teams in fast-paced client environments. Proven ability to work directly with senior client stakeholders and navigate complex requirements. Familiarity with modern data stacks, cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), and analytics workflows. Excellent communication, articulation, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to manage project documentation, reporting cadences, and structured updates. Based in or willing to relocate to NYC; willingness to travel as needed. Experience in the asset & wealth management domain would be a plus but not mandatory. Preferred Qualifications: Exposure to Azure tech stack, RAG applications experience etc is preferred. Prior consulting experience in a global or multi-client delivery environment.“Galent is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. The company does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law”.