Senior Professional Services Engagement Manager
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Senior Professional Services Engagement Manager
at GitLab
Remote, US East
Professional Services Engagement Management, as the name suggests, is about helping align the right professional services engagement with the customer’s needs to ensure the customer is getting the most value from their investment in GitLab.
We have some lofty goals we want to achieve in the next year and cannot do all of the work we have identified by ourselves. This year, GitLab has put added importance on the Professional Services organization to help accelerate customer-positive business outcomes and increase growth potential. As such, we’re increasing our team size to cover more segments and geographies around the world.
The Engagement Manager plays the critical role for setting customers up for Success by prescriptively shaping and then leading the execution of large and transformational projects at our most strategic customers. The Engagement Manager serves as a trusted advisor to customers in their portfolio, providing guidance to Sales and Professional Services teams, ensuring synergies across each customer’s projects, and ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
What you’ll do
Align closely with Account Sales teams to own pre-sales activities such as scoping, solutioning, SOW development and project staffing
Lead the development of client-specific implementation proposals, SOWs, staffing plans, engaging with SMEs across the organization to gain consensus on an acceptable proposal
Provide the Professional Services team with Subject Matter Expertise related to the proposed solution and client needs in order to ensure successful project delivery
Manage project- and account-level escalations as needed
Anticipate needs and position training, support and other solutions that may be needed for a successful customer experience
Work closely with Project Managers to ensure that engagements conclude with fully satisfied clients that are willing to be references for new potential clients
Deep understanding of factors that drive customer success for GitLab implementations and how they directly contribute to long term customer retention
The ability to proactively identify and mitigate risks to customer success, be it through the addition of new products and services, strategy & planning, or escalation
Travel 20-40% (depends on geography and account distribution)
What you’ll bring
Experience with the SDLC, DevOps, and Cloud Transformation
Demonstrated progressive experience delivering consulting services, including team leadership and active involvement in selling professional services
Demonstrated progressive experience in managing C-level client relationships, including escalation resolution
Demonstrated progressive enterprise-level project management experience
Demonstrated progressive experience operating in a pre-sales environment, shaping and scoping large and complex implementation projects
Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills, executive level presence and experience in working in a client advisory role
Able to command a group audience, facilitate solutioning and lead discussions such as implementation methodology, road mapping, enterprise strategy and executive-level requirement gathering sessions
Highly developed soft skills, with the ability to adjust communication style based on the audience and difficult client situations.
Excellent analytical & problem solving skills.
Collaborative and consultative work style, ability to thrive in a high velocity, highly dynamic work environment
History of working in a consultative selling environment, where clients seek and value your opinions and see your advice as objective and unbiased
BA/BS or equivalent; MBA is a plus
You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
How GitLab will support you
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
About the job
Senior Professional Services Engagement Manager
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote System Administration jobs
Senior Professional Services Engagement Manager
at GitLab
Remote, US East
Professional Services Engagement Management, as the name suggests, is about helping align the right professional services engagement with the customer’s needs to ensure the customer is getting the most value from their investment in GitLab.
We have some lofty goals we want to achieve in the next year and cannot do all of the work we have identified by ourselves. This year, GitLab has put added importance on the Professional Services organization to help accelerate customer-positive business outcomes and increase growth potential. As such, we’re increasing our team size to cover more segments and geographies around the world.
The Engagement Manager plays the critical role for setting customers up for Success by prescriptively shaping and then leading the execution of large and transformational projects at our most strategic customers. The Engagement Manager serves as a trusted advisor to customers in their portfolio, providing guidance to Sales and Professional Services teams, ensuring synergies across each customer’s projects, and ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
What you’ll do
Align closely with Account Sales teams to own pre-sales activities such as scoping, solutioning, SOW development and project staffing
Lead the development of client-specific implementation proposals, SOWs, staffing plans, engaging with SMEs across the organization to gain consensus on an acceptable proposal
Provide the Professional Services team with Subject Matter Expertise related to the proposed solution and client needs in order to ensure successful project delivery
Manage project- and account-level escalations as needed
Anticipate needs and position training, support and other solutions that may be needed for a successful customer experience
Work closely with Project Managers to ensure that engagements conclude with fully satisfied clients that are willing to be references for new potential clients
Deep understanding of factors that drive customer success for GitLab implementations and how they directly contribute to long term customer retention
The ability to proactively identify and mitigate risks to customer success, be it through the addition of new products and services, strategy & planning, or escalation
Travel 20-40% (depends on geography and account distribution)
What you’ll bring
Experience with the SDLC, DevOps, and Cloud Transformation
Demonstrated progressive experience delivering consulting services, including team leadership and active involvement in selling professional services
Demonstrated progressive experience in managing C-level client relationships, including escalation resolution
Demonstrated progressive enterprise-level project management experience
Demonstrated progressive experience operating in a pre-sales environment, shaping and scoping large and complex implementation projects
Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills, executive level presence and experience in working in a client advisory role
Able to command a group audience, facilitate solutioning and lead discussions such as implementation methodology, road mapping, enterprise strategy and executive-level requirement gathering sessions
Highly developed soft skills, with the ability to adjust communication style based on the audience and difficult client situations.
Excellent analytical & problem solving skills.
Collaborative and consultative work style, ability to thrive in a high velocity, highly dynamic work environment
History of working in a consultative selling environment, where clients seek and value your opinions and see your advice as objective and unbiased
BA/BS or equivalent; MBA is a plus
You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
How GitLab will support you
All remote, asynchronous work environment
Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.