Delivery Manager, WordPress VIP Professional Services
Overview
WordPress VIP is the world’s leading enterprise content management platform. We help the world’s largest companies (including Meta, Salesforce, and Disney) create innovative digital experiences with WordPress.
Job Description
Professional Services Delivery Managers are accountable for customer magic in the form of measurable outcomes. They work with customers and their partners to ensure that every service engagement meaningfully advances their technical and business objectives.
Responsibilities
- - Ensure that Professional Services engagements exceed customer expectations and deliver an obvious and measurable impact that both technical and business stakeholders value.
- - Independently solve complex and diverse problems in customer code and architecture.
- - Communicate identified problems clearly and positively to customer stakeholders in writing and out loud, sometimes live.
- - Act sensitively to relationships between customers, vendors, and account teams.
- - Escalate feedback and risks to Platform, Product, Support, and Accounts.
- - Produce high-quality deliverables and artifacts that highlight measurable outcomes and qualitative impact.
- - Display genuine curiosity and interest in customers and their code, architectures, goals, and tendencies.
- - Deliver consistently and make rapid and sound decisions, sometimes under pressure or to a deadline, sometimes with limited information.
- - Participate in live discovery, technical, and business-focused customer calls.
- - Deeply learn our delivery tools and methods.
Required Skills
- - Autonomy and judgment: You can make important, reasoned decisions, sometimes alone.
- - Precision and clarity: When making important decisions, you’re prepared to succinctly explain your reasons for doing so.
- - Systems thinking: Driven by systemizing everything.
- - Interest in customers: We are always interested in what they do and how they do it.
- - Ability to make actual things: Proficient in building processes and deliverables that real customers use.
- - Flexibility and joy: Sometimes, things change quickly, even when we’d rather they not.
- - Deep architectural experience: Strong knowledge of system and application architectures.
Benefits
- - Fully-remote company
- - Open vacation policy
- - Compensation philosophy available
- - Benefits vary by country
About the company
We are the people behind WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, WPScan, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, Newspack, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.