Director of Professional Services, WordPress VIP
Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of leadership experience in Professional Services, implementation, technical consulting, or a related delivery function; 5+ years delivering services for enterprise SaaS or PaaS customers.
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of leadership experience in Professional Services, implementation, technical consulting, or a related delivery function.
- Have directly led a Professional Services or delivery organization.
- Have 5+ years delivering services for enterprise SaaS or PaaS customers.
- Bring experience with large-scale migrations, implementations, or custom development.
- Have experience building and managing a services portfolio, defining offerings, establishing pricing, and creating repeatable delivery models.
- Be able to balance standardized delivery models with customer-specific enterprise requirements.
- Have commercial ownership experience, including partnering with Sales on scoping and pricing and identifying expansion opportunities.
- Understand how services performance connects to revenue, retention, and margin.
- Have practical experience using AI to improve operational workflows, delivery efficiency, and team capacity.
- Have experience working with executive-level internal and external stakeholders and communicating complex issues clearly.
- Bring people leadership and performance-management experience, including coaching individual contributors, delivery leads, and managers in partnership with HR.
- Demonstrate strong commercial judgment, strategic thinking, execution skills, adaptability, and comfort in a fast-changing, distributed environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a Professional Services organization of engineers and delivery managers.
- Oversee migrations, implementations, and custom enterprise engagements.
- Own delivery performance, including project health, escalations, customer outcomes, quality, timelines, scope, and operational execution.
- Build an AI-augmented delivery organization to improve execution, time-to-value, efficiency, and team capacity.
- Develop a portfolio of Professional Services offerings that can be scoped, priced, sold, and delivered consistently.
- Own Professional Services commercial performance, including revenue, margin, pricing, and expansion opportunities.
- Partner with Sales and Account Management to scope and price engagements, manage sales-to-delivery transitions, and identify expansion opportunities.
- Establish the strategic direction and operating plan for Professional Services as part of the Customer Experience leadership team.
- Collaborate with Product, Support, and Account Management to improve services and the underlying platform.
- Coach and develop delivery professionals through clear expectations, feedback, performance management, and hands-on leadership.