Delivery Manager

Our Expert Services team is seeking a Delivery Manager to oversee the execution of fixed-length professional services provided in-house. This role is vital to the customer lifecycle, as you will spearhead the implementations of new and existing Braze clients. Working alongside key go-to-market stakeholders including Account Executives, Customer Success Managers, and Technical Architects and more.  You will ensure a seamless transition and superior results. Your mission is to grasp each client's unique business needs and direct program delivery to achieve rapid time-to-value and optimal ROI from their Braze investment.

Key Responsibilities: 

The Delivery Manager role focuses on the end-to-end execution of fixed-length onboarding, implementations, and other professional services to ensure new and existing clients achieve rapid time-to-value and optimal ROI from their Braze investment.

Program Ownership and Management

The Delivery Manager's mission is to spearhead the onboarding and implementation of new and existing Braze clients, ensuring projects are executed on time and meet customer expectations. This includes:

• Project managing a portfolio of customer implementations to successful outcomes, thereby accelerating Time-to-Value and contributing to customer growth and retention.
• Managing program delivery and consistently monitoring and reporting on project progress, while addressing any challenges or roadblocks that may arise.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Alignment

The role is cross-functional and requires working alongside key go-to-market and account stakeholders.The Delivery Manager is considered part of the Implementation Team, often working closely with the Technical Architect. Collaboration is required to align on customer goals and deliverables with:

• Internal teams: Technical Architects (TAs), Customer Success Managers (CSMs), and Account Executives (AEs).
• External parties: Coordinating effectively with the customer's agencies and third parties to drive desired outcomes.

Customer Needs Assessment and Value Realization

The manager must rapidly assess and understand each customer's unique business requirements to tailor the implementation experience effectively. This involves:

• Engaging with customer stakeholders—from senior staff to Braze end users—to understand their business and technical goals.
• Driving customers to realize fast time-to-value by implementing best practices and strategies.
• Helping to drive early adoption, setting key performance indicators (KPIs), and success metrics for ROI.
• Advocating customer business use-cases to product development.

Enhancing Experience and Enabling Users

The Delivery Manager advocates for customer needs and feedback to internal teams to enhance the overall customer experience. Specific enablement and process responsibilities include:

• Training and Workshops: Conducting training sessions and workshops. This means delivering engaging enablement training and collaborating with internal technical resources to empower customers to use Braze's platform and powerful features efficiently. The Delivery Manager group is also included in technical training, such as the Decisioning Studio Technical Enablement.
• Documentation and Transition: Understanding and documenting customer stakeholder roles and hierarchy within a detailed account to ensure successful transitions to the Customer Success Manager team after project completion.
• Process Improvement: Designing and continually improving processes and materials that enhance efficiency and customer experience during implementation.
• Technical Workstreams: When required, taking ownership of some technical workstreams in implementation projects and working directly with the customer's product and engineering stakeholders.

What You’ll Do: 

• Program Ownership and Management: Project manage a portfolio of customer implementations to successful outcomes, accelerating Time-to-Value, growing and retaining customers. Consistently monitor and report on project progress, while proactively addressing any challenges or roadblocks to ensure projects are executed on time and meet customer expectations.
• Customer Enablement: Collaborate with internal technical resources to empower and train customers to use Braze's platform and powerful features as efficiently as possible. This includes participating in technical training, such as the Decisioning Studio Technical Enablement, to remain proficient in advanced platform capabilities.
• Relationship Building: Engage with customer stakeholders to understand their business and technical goals for using Braze, building credible relationships throughout the customer organization, from senior staff to Braze end users. Document customer stakeholder roles and hierarchy within detailed accounts to facilitate a seamless transition to the Customer Success Manager team post-implementation.
• Technical Leadership: When needed, take ownership of some technical workstreams in implementation projects and work directly with customer's product and engineering stakeholders. Act as a bridge between the customer's technical requirements and Braze's internal implementation teams, such as Technical Architects.
• External Coordination: Coordinate effectively with customer's agencies and third parties to drive desired outcomes. Ensure all external partners are aligned with the customer's strategic goals and the Braze implementation timeline.
• Value Realization: Help drive early adoption, setting KPIs and success metrics for ROI. Implement best practices and strategies that lead customers to realize fast time-to-value from their investment.
• Product Advocacy: Advocate customer business use-cases to product development. Serve as a voice for the customer internally to help shape the platform roadmap based on real-world needs.
• Continuous Improvement: Design and continually improve processes and materials that enhance efficiency and customer experience during implementation. Effectively deliver engaging enablement training and workshops, tailoring remote sessions to exceed customer expectations.

Who You Are:

The ideal candidate for the Delivery Manager role should exhibit a strong combination of professional experience, organizational discipline, and interpersonal strengths to ensure successful client outcomes:

• Professional Experience: Requires a minimum of 3+ years of experience in a customer-facing work environment. This foundation is coupled with proven experience in project management and technology implementation, which is vital for overseeing fixed-length professional services and client implementations. You should also have demonstrated interest or experience in technical concepts such as SaaS, Mobile, APIs, Marketing Automation, Direct Marketing, Analytics, or Programming (HTML etc.).
• Organizational Discipline: You must be highly organized and reliable, ensuring project tracking is always up-to-date. This role requires a self-starter with a continuous improvement mindset, dedicated to designing and refining processes and materials that enhance implementation efficiency and customer experience.
• Intellectual Growth: You possess a high level of intellectual curiosity and the ability to constantly learn new platform features, industry trends, and client use-cases to better advocate for them.
• Problem-Solving Skills: You have excellent analytical, problem diagnosis, and creative problem-solving skills, along with the desire and ability to identify and help implement necessary changes.
• Collaboration and Resilience: You can effectively work within a cross-functional team and balance multiple projects simultaneously. You are known for being a good collaborator who can motivate or maintain enthusiasm throughout the implementation engagement, and you have the ability to manage conflicting priorities and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Communication: Your strong listening and verbal communication skills enable you to quickly understand customer needs or issues and deliver a clear and concise response via video calls and emails.

Qualifications: 

• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Experience: 3+ years in a similar customer-facing role, preferably in implementations or customer success. This includes proven experience in technology implementation and project management, with a demonstrated interest or background in technical concepts such as APIs, Marketing Automation, Analytics, SaaS, Mobile, or Programming.
• Skills: Strong project management skills with the discipline to be highly organized and keep tracking up-to-date. Excellent communication skills, including strong listening and verbal abilities to deliver clear and concise responses via video calls and emails. A high level of intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn about technical concepts, constantly learning new platform features and use-cases, paired with excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills.

For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $66,000 and $104,000/year, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $78,000 and $123,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.