applied resource groupNew York, NY
Director of Professional Services
Director of Professional Services
Director of Professional Services
applied resource groupNew York, NY
3 days ago
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We are seeking an experienced Professional Services leader to oversee implementation and delivery for a defined portfolio of workflow automation solutions. This role will be heavily involved in customer implementations and will lead the teams responsible for moving clients successfully from planning through go-live.
This is not a purely strategic or administrative leadership position. The Director will remain close to active engagements, participate in implementation and go-live calls, help resolve delivery challenges, and ensure customers receive a consistent and successful experience.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the daily operations of Professional Services and implementation delivery teams.
- Oversee complex enterprise software implementations from planning through successful deployment.
- Build and develop a high-performing services organization focused on quality, accountability, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
- Establish standardized delivery methodologies, governance practices, and project controls.
- Improve the consistency, scalability, and predictability of customer implementations.
- Monitor project risks, delivery challenges, and customer escalations while ensuring timely resolution.
- Serve as an executive-level partner for strategic customers throughout implementation and consulting engagements.
- Create dashboards and reporting that provide clear visibility into project performance, resource needs, and financial results.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Support, Customer Success, and Finance to align delivery with customer and business objectives.
- Lead resource planning, staffing, and capacity management across the services portfolio.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes through automation, improved tooling, and operating discipline.
- Support organizational planning and strategic initiatives tied to growth, profitability, and customer retention.
What We're Looking For:
- Leadership experience within Professional Services, enterprise consulting, software implementation, or technology services.
- Experience managing managers, consultants, project leaders, and implementation teams.
- A successful track record overseeing complex enterprise software deployments.
- Experience supporting cloud-based and/or on-premises software implementations.
- Strong knowledge of Professional Services financial and operational metrics, including utilization, margins, revenue forecasting, project profitability, and capacity planning.
- Experience developing repeatable implementation methodologies and delivery governance standards.
- Experience partnering with senior executives and managing relationships with strategic customers.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- A customer-focused approach combined with strong commercial and operational judgment. Preferred Experience* Experience working for an enterprise SaaS or business software company.
- Familiarity with ERP, financial management, workflow, or other business-critical software platforms.
- Experience serving professional services organizations or other complex, highly regulated customers.
- Background scaling a Professional Services organization during a period of growth or transformation. Up to 15% travel required
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Level
Manager
Location
New York, NY
Occupation
General and Operations Managers
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services
Posted
3 days ago