[Hiring] Executive Technical Consultant @Uplevel

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced technologist and strategist to serve as an Executive Technical Consultant to drive change and engineering effectiveness at mid- to large-sized engineering organizations. As an Executive Technical Consultant, you will drive the end-to-end Uplevel engagement by merging deep technical proficiency, masterful influence and coaching skills with analytical rigor and executive-level storytelling. Your mission is to own the delivery of high-impact outcomes, bring change at the team and executive level, and empower organizations to successfully navigate transformation through data and the Uplevel framework.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Overseeing direct client relationships.
• Bringing an expert and opinionated perspective on how engineering should be done in the age of AI.
• Distilling complex datasets into actionable insights.
• Coaching executives and teams.
• Creating clarity for customers at both the technical and strategic levels.
• Crafting strategic deliverables, business cases, and opinionated technical recommendations that drive action among engineering leadership.

Beyond analysis, you will guide organizations toward higher engineering maturity by:

• Scaffolding internal information flows.
• Empowering engineering managers to lead effectively.
• Coaching and mentoring front-line managers on technical topics.
• Providing strategic guidance and capability-building to senior engineering leaders.

A successful candidate for this role can:

• Architect a shared context layer.
• Recommend metrics for managing effective AI usage.
• Connect with highly technical individuals on tactical choices.
• Create compelling, actionable narratives for engineering leaders.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing technical change with engineering teams.
• Deep hands-on experience in engineering leadership.
• Expertise in platform engineering, DevOps practices, and scaling engineering organizations.
• Strong perspective with proven results on how engineering should be done from a technical perspective, especially in an agentic framework.
• Experience coaching and mentoring teams and executives.
• Demonstrated ability to build executive-grade presentations and business cases from technical and operational data.
• Expertise in data analysis: capability to interpret platform metrics and survey data to reveal the underlying narrative.
• Proven ability to hold senior client relationships independently.
• Self-directed work style: you can take an engagement context and drive it forward without needing the problem restated or the deliverable scoped for you.
• Genuine interest in the detective work of organizational assessment.
• Collaborative approach to methodology refinement.

Requirements

• Manage the change motion in each engagement — serve as the leader and guide for clients at every stage.
• Conduct interviews with engineers, evaluate key metrics, and integrate survey results.
• Drive technical depth with opinionated recommendations — transform high-level findings into specific, step-by-step roadmaps.
• Coach teams and leaders — educate, empower, and motivate engineering teams and leaders to use data to drive change.
• Advance our methodology — integrate direct insights from client engagements to sharpen assessment frameworks.
• Build thought leadership — contribute to Uplevel’s differentiated position as an industry leader by developing engineering-focused content.
• Extract and tell compelling data stories — synthesize diverse outputs into persuasive, executive-level narratives.
• Feed findings into the product — synthesize and translate customer pain points and desires into actionable product feedback.