Description:
As BetterUp’s Client Delivery Director (‘CDD’) you’ll play a crucial role in leading the formation and orchestration of the post-sale strategy and execution for our largest and most strategic clients. This is an IC role with no direct reports.
What You’ll Do
- Delivery Management: Orchestrate the successful end-to-end technical and operational delivery of the BetterUp platform to our clients. Ensure that the business needs and requirements of our clients are clearly understood by our internal teams and effectively scope their deliverables/milestones against said requirements. Contribute to the strategic planning of delivery processes and innovations that enhance client outcomes and operational efficiency.
- Client Relationship Management: Establish and maintain strong relationships with clients post-sale - inclusive of executive, operating and technical program leadership. Act as the primary point of contact for all client service delivery needs, ensuring superior client experience and engagement.
- Governance: Design and run the mechanisms that monitor and report on delivery efficacy, timeliness, value realization and customer experience (both customer and internal facing). Develop and implement strategies for continuous improvement.
- Comms & Change Management: Provide regular and real time client updates regarding delivery status, risks and outcomes. Owns the triage and cascade of communications and change management across customer and internal stakeholder groups.
- Collaboration & Advocacy: Lead post-sale planning and execution across cross-functional delivery teams – spanning Customer Success, People Insights, Services and Product. Champion Voice of Customer with BetterUp’s product and go to market leadership
- Risk & Escalation Management: Design and run issue/escalation and risk management practices (identification → resolution). Quarterback escalation management with client stakeholders.
If you have some or all of the following, please apply:
- 10+ years of software and/or service delivery experience (execution)
- 5+ years of experience leading enterprise-wide SaaS platform deployments (overseeing both operational and technical delivery)
- Excellent communication skills with executive and operating level stakeholders (inclusive of business and technical personas)
- Influencing / working cross functionally (independently navigate well through an org)
- Strong program/project management skills (scrum/agile a plus)
- Ability to look around corner / uncover early indicators of risk to drive proactive remediation
- Extensive experience advising, coaching, influencing, and building relationships both internally and externally with executive-level clients at Fortune 1000 companies
- 20% - 40% travel required (client onsite travel)
- Removes institutional barriers to AI adoption and drives cultural change that embraces continuous reinvention
- Exercises exceptional judgment in when to simplify and when to stretch, embodying "Do Less, Deliver More"