Technical Client Engagement Director

TELUS International

• $125K — $150K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in strategy and high-performing team leadership at a top-tier management consultancy, managing client relationships.
  • Expertise in end-to-end digital transformation, from advisory to execution for Fortune 500 clients or leading tech innovators.
  • In-depth understanding of enterprise software engineering and platforms, including modern architectures and cloud-native services.
  • Proven ability to engage with C-suite executives, translate vision into KPIs and investment cases, and navigate enterprise governance.
  • Hands-on experience with agile methodologies and managing global talent while achieving margin targets.
  • Expertise in customer experience, service design, omnichannel strategies, and data-driven personalization.
  • Comfortable managing large-scale change while ensuring quality, security, and compliance. Bachelor's degree required; MBA or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with practice and business development leaders to establish long-term advisory roles within the TELUS ecosystem.
  • Collaborate with TELUS Digital leadership to identify and prioritize customer transformation strategies.
  • Drive teams to generate innovative ideas and perspectives for account growth.
  • Initiate and implement organizational change and business transformation initiatives.
  • Leverage industry best practices to enhance engineering, technology, and user experience within accounts.
  • Lead account strategy and oversee proposal development while articulating staffing needs.
  • Build and manage robust relationships with TELUS stakeholders to influence beneficial business outcomes.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility within the US or Canada or office-based opportunities in major North American cities.
  • Opportunity to shape digital strategies for a high-profile Telecom client.
  • Access to a dynamic work environment with a focus on innovative and impactful project delivery.
  • Career development through coaching and mentoring, fostering high-performing teams with diverse talent.
  • Exposure to a wide range of industry practices and leading-edge technologies.
  • Engagement in shaping organizational transformation that drives business success.
Full Job Description
Location

This role will operate remotely (US or Canada) OR be based out of one of our major North American office locations - Charlottesville, VA, Durham, NC, Columbus, OH, Boston, MA, Vancouver, BC, Calgary, Edmonton, AB, or Toronto, ON.

The Opportunity

As the Technical Client Engagement Director you'll be leading digital strategy for a Telecom client of TELUS Digital, you will co-deliver bold digital strategies with executive stakeholders and turn them into market-ready products, positioning TELUS Digital as the go-to partner across the customer ecosystem. You'll deepen executive partnerships, deploy world-class teams on high-stakes initiatives, and translate innovative ideas into revenue through rapid pilots with Practice Leaders. You'll work with vertical leads and practice leaders to mine work delivered into external market offerings. If you thrive at the nexus of strategy, productization, and large-scale delivery, join us to shape the future of digital transformation for our customers.
Responsibilities

Building our Company
  • Partner with Practice area leaders and business development leaders to continue to become a long-term trusted advisor within the TELUS ecosystem
  • Responsible for partnering with other TELUS Digital leadership to determine strategic priorities that enable customers to transform their business.
  • Drives teams to provide fresh perspectives, breakthrough ideas, and new paradigms that can be leveraged to grow accounts
  • Initiates, influences, and drives organizational changes and business transformation.

Focusing on Customers
  • Bring industry best practices from other clients across engineering, emerging technologies, and user experience
  • Leads and sets account strategy
  • Accountable for proposal development and articulating staffing needs across accounts serviced
  • Responsible for procurement relationships to create efficiencies and streamline existing processes to lower overhead.
  • Develop and manage strong, lasting relationships with TELUS
  • Builds relationships and takes into account the needs of multiple stakeholders to influence and drive decisions for beneficial business outcomes.
  • Track revenue, oversee delivery in partnership with delivery leads, and identify win/win commercial constructs

Leading our Market
  • Serve as an advisor to key client stakeholders and industry leaders
  • Identify new market opportunities, and determine priorities and solutions that enable TELUS Digital to meet those opportunities
  • Proactively identifies changes in the technological landscape that allow the business to add value to our revenue stream, our clients, or our efficiency

Developing our People
  • Provide cross-functional people management to consultants and/or client managers, and career coaching/guidance
  • Provides real-time feedback, coaches, and mentors staff at all levels of the organization in a manner that drives them to excel
  • Builds high-performing teams by integrating a diversity of skills and personalities and creating a shared purpose.
Competencies
  • 5+ years shaping strategy and leading high-performing teams in a top-tier management consultancy, owning a client relationship
  • End-to-end digital-transformation expertise-from technology advisory and complex program delivery to productization and go-to-market execution-earned on multi-year engagements with Fortune-500 clients or leading tech innovators.
  • Deep knowledge of enterprise software engineering and enterprise platforms Comfortable discussing modern architectures, cloud-native services, and scalability patterns with technical leaders.
  • Board-room presence and C-suite trust. A track record of advising executives, navigating enterprise governance, and translating vision into measurable KPIs and investment cases.
  • Proven operator. Hands-on experience deploying agile and scaled-agile methods, managing global talent pools, and hitting margin targets in fast-moving environments.
  • Customer-experience authority. Deep fluency in service-design thinking, omnichannel journeys, and data-driven personalization techniques that boost NPS and lifetime value.
  • Change-and risk-management savvy. Comfortable steering large-scale organizational change while safeguarding quality, security and compliance.
  • Clear, influential communicator able to simplify complexity, rally cross-functional teams, and inspire confidence at every level.
  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA, Masters in Computer Science (MSC or MSCS) or equivalent graduate degree strongly preferred.

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