Cognizant · 14 hours ago
Engagement Partner
St Paul, MN
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $200K/yr
15+ years expCognizant is hiring an Engagement Partner to serve as the Experience Lead supporting one of their most strategic enterprise clients in Minneapolis. The role focuses on leading experience strategy and transformation, ensuring that experience initiatives are aligned with measurable business outcomes.
ConsultingIndustrial AutomationInformation TechnologySoftwareSoftware Engineering
Responsibilities
Lead Experience Strategy and Transformation
Serve as the Experience Lead shaping a cohesive experience vision across customer marketer employee and channel partner journeys
Translate enterprise priorities such as growth efficiency compliance and scale into actionable experience roadmaps aligned to platforms data and operating models
Ensure experience strategy is tightly connected to measurable business outcomes not standalone design or marketing initiatives
Act as a Senior Trusted Advisor
Build and sustain executive level relationships across marketing digital data IT and business leadership
Provide point of view leadership on experience transformation operating models governance and emerging best practices relevant to large matrixed enterprises
Help leadership navigate tradeoffs across speed scale risk and innovation in a regulated global environment
Drive Demand and Commercial Outcomes
Own experience led demand generation within the account identifying new buying centers and growth opportunities aligned to the company transformation agenda
Shape and lead pursuits including problem framing solution architecture storytelling pricing and commercial structure
Maintain accountability for revenue growth total contract value (TCV) and long term account expansion tied to experience transformation
Orchestrate the Strategy Pod and Broader Delivery
Act as the integrator across strategy data platforms design and execution teams ensuring alignment between the strategy pod and downstream delivery pods
Partner closely with Cognizant Consulting Data and AI Digital Engineering and Platform teams to assemble the right capabilities at the right time
Ensure clarity of roles decision rights and handoffs across strategy assessment roadmap and execution phases
Ensure Delivery Excellence
Provide senior oversight for key programs and initiatives
Be accountable for client satisfaction delivery quality and the realization of agreed upon business value
Qualification
Required
15+ years of experience in a client facing role in a consulting firm or an account/engagement management role in the IT professional services offshore/outsourcing industry
Excellent ability and aptitude to influence and communicate effectively with business stakeholders up to the C-Suite
Ability to interface at all levels of an organization
Excellent oral and written communication skills and executive presentation and persuasion skills are required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Preferred
MS or MBA degree
Proven track record to contribute to new business development efforts and to lead and handle multiple tasks
Benefits
Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Consumer Goods
Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Company
Cognizant
Cognizant is a professional services company that helps clients alter their business, operating, and technology models for the digital era.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$0.24MKey Investors
Summit Financial Wealth Advisors
2025-03-08Post Ipo Equity
2016-11-18Post Ipo Equity· $0.24M
1998-06-19IPO
Leadership Team
Ravi Kumar S
Chief Executive Officer
Anil Cheriyan
CTO / EVP Strategy & Technology
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