Managing Director, Software Engineering

West Monroe • Chicago, IL

14h • $280,000 - $378,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

From designing customer-facing software to integrating complex platforms and leveraging actionable data, we partner with our clients to modernize every layer of your technology stack. Our engineering teams work on bringing modern architecture practices, cloud technologies, and industry expertise to build software that’s as smart as it is impactful.
As a Managing Director/Partner in our Technology and Experience practice and Software Engineering discipline, you will join a leadership team focused helping companies become digital in every part of their business, while mentoring the next generation of leaders at West Monroe. You will drive new opportunities to strategize, design, and build bespoke software products, legacy application modernization, modern integration platforms, and intelligent products and agents that use AI including machine learning and GenAI. You should be passionate about delivering technology solutions that are grounded in the human experience and be prepared to embrace West Monroe’s fast-growing and entrepreneurial environment. Whether transforming legacy systems or integrating complex platforms, our team combines technical fluency with industry expertise to drive meaningful change.

Requirements

• 15+ years of work experience within a high growth, team-based, client facing digital and/or global business and technology consulting firm including direct experience selling and delivering digital software engineering and integration advisory services to executive-level corporate strategic buyers
• Domain expertise in digital product, software engineering, software modernization, modern integration platform and AI-enabled intelligent products and agents capabilities and functions
• Demonstrated experience selling into Fortune 1000, enterprise, and upper mid-market clients and commercial success in selling multiple multi-million dollar deals each year
• Demonstrated experience hunting, farming and closing large scale product engineering opportunities leveraging on-shore and near-shore delivery models
• Able to work independently and as a team player in coordinating and driving sales processes
• Bring product experience and engineering market sales experience in one or more of these industries: High-Tech and Software, Private Equity, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, and Consumer & Industrial Products
• Expertise within sales strategy, business development, pricing, account management, sales operations, sales enablement, and bringing new products and services to market
• Ability to combine technical experience with other strong management and leadership skills, specifically expertise in client relationship management, and business development of go-to-market practices (e.g., sales effectiveness, pricing, sales operations) and/or product delivery (e.g., product management, user experience, software development)
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with C-level clients
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
• Ability to Travel, as required based on client and practice demands
• Ability to be in-person three days a week is required. Managing Directors at West Monroe are expected to be in-person three days a week. This can include being present at client sites, in the market, or in-office for internal collaboration. There is flexibility and an understanding that schedules ebb and flow, but a core belief is that when we are together with our people and our clients, we build stronger relationships and are better equipped to sell and deliver value.

Responsibilities

• Lead and/or collaborate with industry teams and key accounts on account planning, and execute those plans for account growth
• Leverage your personal network of executive relationships (e.g. Chief Product Officers, Chief Digital Officers, Chief Experience Officers, Chief Information Officers, SVP – Product and Experience, Product Engineering Leads, Director of Application Development, Software Engineering Executives etc.) to secure executive-level introduction meetings to generate new business at target accounts
• Identify and drive business development activities by assessing opportunities, designing solutions, developing proposals/SOWs, leveraging on-shore and near-shore delivery models, establishing relationships with clients and prospective clients, and helping to close new deals
• Develop go-to-market (GTM) messaging and sales materials to support business development for prospects and clients
• Create work plans, pricing estimates, and risk assessments for potential engagements
• Contribute to thought leadership to strengthen marketing efforts
• Attend networking events and actively build and leverage a professional network and affiliate network in the local community
• Identify impactful partnerships that can become sales and revenue channels for product and software engineering capabilities, and work with our partnerships team to drive work through those partnerships, grow our relationships and invest in those partnerships
• Bring subject matter depth in imagining, designing, and building bespoke digital products, leading software modernization and/or modern integration platform engagements, helping deliver AI-enabled software products such that you can be a trusted executive advisor to our most senior and sophisticated client executives
• Lead teams serving clients across industries as the engagement lead and owning overall accountability of successful delivery while demonstrating executive presence with high level client counterparts.
• Provide quality assurance and conduct frequent touch bases with client executives to ensure value is realized and understood from our engagements
• Identify, develop and leverage accelerators focused on addressing industry-specific challenges
• Collaborate with national Technology and Experience leaders and across West Monroe’s industry and functional practices, to evangelize, develop and deliver multi-disciplinary, data-driven software and integration capabilities and offerings
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across the firm to develop and enhance delivery capabilities across West Monroe’s practice areas

Benefits

• Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses.
• Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees