Senior Director, Implementation
Leads Rippling’s implementation organization by scaling high-performing teams, executing strategic plans, and optimizing operational metrics and customer experience. Requires 15+ years of leadership experience in implementation or customer experience, preferably in a SaaS environment.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Hire, mentor, and grow high-performing implementation teams that meet or exceed quarterly goals and targets.
- Build, maintain, and execute quarterly plans aligned with business objectives.
- Develop, monitor, and manage key performance metrics.
- Use data-driven approaches to build and optimize processes that improve efficiency and customer experience.
- Collaborate with senior leaders across Sales, Customer Experience, and Product to achieve organizational and company goals.
Requirements
- 15+ years of professional experience leading an Implementation or Customer Experience team in a fast-paced environment, startup, or SaaS organization.
- Deep understanding of systems and operations supporting B2B and B2C products.
- Experience hiring and managing distributed teams.
- Proven success scaling teams and maintaining SLAs and other key performance metrics.
- Data-driven approach to developing, tracking, and optimizing performance metrics.
- Learning mindset, people-first attitude, strong sense of responsibility, and ability to lead by example.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Highly organized, self-motivated, detail-oriented, action-driven, and able to follow through on initiatives.
- Willingness to take on hands-on initiatives outside of one’s comfort zone and learn quickly.
- High integrity and willingness to challenge the status quo and improve broken processes.
Compensation
- US-based salary range of $152,700–$254,500, plus benefits and equity.
Skills
Implementation Operations, Customer Experience, Team Leadership, SaaS, B2B Products, B2C Products, Distributed Teams, Service-Level Agreements, Performance Metrics, Process Optimization, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Quarterly Planning
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