Engagement Manager
Job Summary
Who Are We
Postman is the worlds leading API platform used by more than 45 million developers and 500000 organizations including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaborationenabling users to create better APIs faster.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston New York Austin Tokyo London and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held with funding from Battery Ventures BOND Coatue CRV Insight Partners and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman.
P.S: We highly recommend reading The API-First World graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.
The Opportunity
Postman is growing and with that growth comes increasing complexity in how we serve our most strategic customers. Were looking for an Engagement Manager to help us execute on our highest-priority accountsorganizations where Postman is placing a significant revenue bet and where the depth of our engagement directly determines whether we win.
As an Engagement Manager you will be deployed to a focused portfolio of strategic accounts. Youll partner closely with Account Executives to translate account strategies into structured adoption programs driving real outcomes for customers and real results for Postman. This isnt a relationship management roleits a technical program execution role. Youll own the plan coordinate the people and keep everything moving from kickoff through to measurable value realization.
This role is ideal for a seasoned program leader who thrives in complexity communicates clearly at every level of an organization and knows how to turn ambiguous customer goals into concrete trackable progress.
What Youll Do
- Success Planning: Work with the customer and Account Executive to co-develop a structured success plan with clear milestones timelines stakeholders and success criteria. Translate customer business goals into an actionable program roadmap.
- Program Management and Execution: Coordinate cross-functional delivery across customer teams and internal Postman resources. Track milestone progress identify and escalate blockers and maintain momentum throughout the engagement lifecyclefrom discovery through to exit.
- Business Reviews and Value Demonstration: Lead executive and business reviews in partnership with the Account Executive presenting measurable adoption progress and quantifiable outcomes. Own the content and narrative; bring the data to life.
- Stakeholder Alignment and Expansion: Build and maintain organizational maps across your accounts. Drive multi-threaded engagement to accelerate time to value and identify expansion opportunities. Surface actionable insight to the AE to inform commercial strategy.
- CSE Coordination: Identify where deeper technical activation is needed and engage Customer Success Engineering. Retain coordination ownership throughout ensuring no dropped handoffs and clear progress tracking.
- Risk and Momentum Management: Monitor engagement health surface risks earlywhether organizational technical or strategicand equip the account team to respond before issues become problems.
About You
- Experienced Program Leader: 8 years of experience in program management enterprise customer success or strategic consulting in a technical B2B SaaS environment. Youve managed complex multi-stakeholder initiatives and know how to keep them on track.
- Structured and Strategic: You naturally translate ambiguity into plans. You build frameworks without being rigid and you know how to adapt when things change.
- Executive-Ready Communicator: Youre confident presenting to senior stakeholders and comfortable distilling complex progress into crisp narratives. Written and verbal communication are both strengths.
- Commercially Aware: You understand the link between adoption and revenue and you work with urgency and intentionality on accounts where the stakes are high. You can identify expansion signals and translate them into clear opportunities for the AE.
- Deeply Collaborative: You operate as the operational counterpart to the Account Executivenot in parallel but in genuine partnership. You build trust internally and externally and you know when to lead and when to support.
- Curious and Insight-Driven: You invest time understanding each customers business goals developer tooling landscape and organizational structure. You bring insight to every conversation not just process.
- Cross-functional orchestrator: Familiarity with enterprise adoption motions including working alongside Professional Services and Solutions Architecture teams.
- Developer focused: You bring experience in developer tooling API platforms or adjacent technical SaaS categories.
- Leading with value: Experience building business cases and ROI narratives for executive audiences.
Nice to Have
- Exposure to customer health frameworks adoption metrics or NRR-driven account strategies.
- Bachelors degree in Business Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
- Consultancy or project management experience in major digital transformation initiatives
What Else
In addition to Postmans pay-on-performance philosophy and a flexible schedule working with a fun collaborative team Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits including full medical coverage flexible PTO wellness reimbursement and a monthly lunch stipend. Along with that our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. Were building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves.
At Postman we value in person collaboration. We are in office 5 days a week for all roles based out of our hubs in San Francisco Bay Area Boston Austin Tokyo and London. For roles based in Bangalore employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce leadership team and peers. The benefits of our in office model will be shared knowledge brainstorming sessions communication and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.
Our Values
At Postman we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes but also our work we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.
Equal opportunity
Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender perception or identity national origin age marital status protected veteran status or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
Accelerate API development with Postman's all-in-one platform. Streamline collaboration and simplify the API lifecycle for faster, better results. Learn more.