Implementation Manager

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Product Management

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Job Description

As an Implementation Manager at Glean, you'll lead end-to-end project management for enterprise SaaS deployments, ensuring on-time delivery. You'll build strong customer relationships, gather requirements, manage resources, mitigate risks, and maintain project documentation. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams (CSM, SA, TS, Account Executives, R&D) to configure SaaS solutions and meet customer needs. This role requires managing multiple projects, establishing KPIs, and contributing to the scaling of Glean's Implementation Management function as the company grows.
Must have:
  • Lead large-scale SaaS deployments
  • Manage cross-functional teams
  • Strong customer relationship skills
  • Project management expertise
  • Risk mitigation and problem-solving
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • MBA or PMP certification
  • Experience with cloud deployments
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About Glean

We’re on a mission to make knowledge work faster and more humane. We believe that AI will fundamentally transform how people work. In the future, everyone will work in tandem with expert AI assistants who find knowledge, create and synthesize information, and execute work. These assistants will free people up to focus on the higher-level, creative aspects of their work.
We’re building a system of intelligence for every company in the world. On the surface, you can think of it as Google + ChatGPT for the enterprise. Under the hood, our platform is the connective tissue between AI and knowledge. It brings all of a company’s knowledge together, understands it at a deep level, provides industry-leading search relevance over it, and connects it to generative AI agents and applications.

Glean was founded by a seasoned team of former Google search and Facebook engineers who saw a need in the enterprise space for their technical depth and passion for AI. We’re a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to help each other get big things done—so we can help other teams do the same. 

We're backed by some of the Valley's leading venture capitalists—including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, and General Catalyst—and have assembled a world-class team with senior leadership experience at Google, Slack, Facebook, Dropbox, Rubrik, Uber, Intercom, Pinterest, Palantir, and others.

Role:

We are seeking an Implementation Manager to lead and drive SaaS deployments for our largest strategic and enterprise accounts. The Implementation Manager will work closely with cross-functional partners including Customer Success Managers (CSM), Solution Architects (SA), Technical Support (TS), Account Executives and R&D teams to ensure the successful implementation and configuration, of our SaaS solutions at our most significant accounts. They will primarily be engaged during post-sales right after the deals close till the successful end-user launch of Glean at the customer. 

Having delivered a track record of strong execution and x-fn collaboration, we expect this person to have the opportunity to build out Glean’s Implementation Management function (its capabilities, processes, and team structure) as we scale our Enterprise AI offerings to thousands of enterprise customers.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Project Leadership: Lead end-to-end project management for multiple assigned enterprise SaaS deployments, from initial scoping through implementation and launch, ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery with a high level of transparency provided to the customer.
  2. Customer Engagement: Establish strong relationships with key stakeholders at enterprise-level customers, serving as the primary point of contact for project-related communication.
  3. Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with customers to understand their unique business needs and translate them into clear project requirements and objectives. As needed, channel these requirements and customers’ prioritization/severity to the right R&D teams.
  4. Resource Management: Coordinate project resources and timelines, including cross-functional teams, third-party vendors, and internal experts, to ensure successful project execution. 
  5. Risk Management: Proactively identify project risks, resourcing gaps and timeline issues and execute mitigation and escalation flows to course correct and ensure project success.
  6. Documentation: Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, project templates, status reports, and change logs and leverage these artifacts (processes, documents, best practices) to scale the impact of the function as we grow our large accounts base.
  7. Solution Design: Work closely with our SA, TS, CSM and Product teams to identify SaaS solutions that can meet requirements of multiple large customers.
  8. Measure Success: establish and manage project key performance indicators (KPIs), ensuring the end-to-end delivery of the project and the contributions of customer and internal project team members are measured and reviewed for continual improvement.

 

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field. MBA or PMP certification preferred.
  • 8+ years of experience in a program or project management role, preferably in Professional Services at a SaaS or technology company
  • Proven track record of successfully managing large-scale SaaS deployment projects with an emphasis on large-scale, enterprise cloud deployments.
  • Strong understanding of SaaS software architecture and deployment best practices.
  • Communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Proficiency in project management software tools and methodologies.
  • Ability to adapt to changing project requirements and priorities.
  • Problem-solving skills and a results-oriented mindset.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

 

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