
Senior Manager, Professional Services
Chainguard
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $195,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own end-to-end Professional Services delivery for your assigned Enterprise segment.
- Ensure successful onboarding, implementation, advisory, and expansion engagements.
- Drive consistent execution of delivery methodologies, quality standards, and documentation practices.
- Monitor and improve segment-level KPIs such as utilization, on-time delivery, and customer satisfaction.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex or at-risk customer engagements.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solutions Architects, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and customer focus.
- Establish clear performance expectations and support ongoing coaching and professional development.
- Develop career growth and succession plans for team members.
- Partner with Professional Services leadership on hiring and capacity planning.
- Execute on the Professional Services strategy to deliver consistent, high-quality engagements.
- Improve operational processes to increase efficiency, scalability, and predictability.
- Standardize delivery methodologies, tools, templates, and best practices across engagements.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Support to ensure a seamless customer experience.
- Support pre-sales engagements for strategic or complex opportunities within your segment.
- Provide customer feedback that informs product development and services improvements.
- Partner with PS leadership to evolve services packaging and pricing models.
- Ensure customers achieve defined business outcomes through services engagements.
- Identify and support expansion opportunities in partnership with Sales and Customer Success.
- Proactively manage escalations and mitigate delivery risk.
- Capture customer insights to help improve both product capabilities and services delivery.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Professional Services, Consulting, Customer Success, or a related field.
- 2+ years of leadership experience managing delivery teams or the day-to-day Professional Services operations for a customer segment.
- Technical background in cybersecurity, DevOps, software engineering, or a related field.
- Strong project or program management capabilities.
- Experience working cross-functionally in a high-growth technology environment.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and executive stakeholders.
Benefits
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
cybersecurityDevOpssoftware engineeringproject managementprogram managementdelivery methodologiesquality standardsdocumentation practicesKPI monitoringoperational process improvement
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcoachingcollaborationcustomer focusaccountabilitycommunicationstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingrisk management