Manager Professional Services

Team Description:

The Pendo Professional Services team is looking for a leader of our Consultants and Engagement Managers to help manage and grow a team of delivery of professional services engagements for our enterprise clients. Professional Services Consultants drive value for our clients through longer term engagements designed to fuel value generation for customers beyond education and enablement of Pendos applications while Engagement Managers ensure our customers engagements are moving through with ease.

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and have a strong track record of leading a Professional Services team. They should have experience in these areas: consulting project management and driving successful client engagements. Strong internal collaboration emotional intelligence and expectationalignment ability are critical components of this role.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead and Mentor: Inspire and guide a team of Consultants and Engagement Managers fostering a culture of growth and development.
• Resolve Escalations: Act as a point of contact for customer issues collaborating across teams to eliminate obstacles and ensure successful outcomes.
• Drive Customer Value: Spearhead the development and implementation of strategies tools and methodologies that deliver exceptional value to enterprise clients.
• Ensure Customer Success: Oversee engagement delivery to achieve positive client outcomes and satisfaction.
• Support Sales: Contribute to the sales cycle for services including presentations and proposal/SOW development.
• Manage Professional Services: Oversee project forecasting financials staffing partnerships and process optimization.
• Build Client Relationships: Establish and nurture strong relationships with key client stakeholders including executivelevel contacts.
• Collaborate CrossFunctionally: Partner with Sales Customer Success and Product teams to drive growth and customer success.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7 years experience in an enterprise software company consulting organization or systems integrator (highgrowth SaaS a plus).
• 2 years of people management experience with a passion for mentoring and developing team members.
• Experience in consulting project management or client engagement success.
• Strong internal collaboration and project management skills (planning resourcing scope schedule status documentation).
• Ability to measure articulate and improve key performance indicators of a Professional Services and Customer Experience business.
• Datadriven and hypothesisoriented approach to problemsolving.
• Excellent verbal written and video communication skills including executivelevel presentations.
• Experience with scoping/drafting SOWs and valuebased service delivery that demonstrates ROI.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Product Management
• Experience with Agile Methodology
• Experience within a preIPO stage startup environment with the ability to execute at a fast pace
• Experience leading technical teams and can communicate technical differentiators and scope large complex engagements
• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience

Pendo Description:

Pendo was founded in 2013 by former product managers who combined their heads and hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers a simple way to understand and attack what truly drives product success. Our mission is to improve societys experience with software.

Come join one of the fastestgrowing startups supported by bestinclass institutions like Battery Ventures Salesforce Ventures Spark Capital and Meritech. You will gain experience in a diverse and exciting set of technologies and clients and have a real impact on Pendos future. Our culture is passionate dynamic and fun.

EEOC

We are an equal opportunity employer and believe having diverse teams where everyone brings their whole self to Pendo is key to our success. We welcome all people of different backgrounds experiences abilities and perspectives.

Accessibility

Pendo is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you think you may require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process please send a request to: All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially as practical and permitted by law.

Compensation

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry and are one part of many compensation benefits and other reward opportunities we provide.

The expected base salary range for this role in the following locations is:

San Francisco Bay Area CA $123000 $154000

Individual pay rate decisions including offers made within and over the expected salary range are based on a number of factors including qualifications for the role experience level skillset and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.