Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.

Elastic’s Professional Services team works across every technology and system to deliver solutions for our customers. Our Elastic Services Delivery Manager is essential to the project delivery of Elastic services and plays an essential role in keeping up with the growing demand for Elastic services. 

As an Elastic Services Delivery Manager, you will work with the services team to service our global customer base on billable projects. Our customers include Fortune 100 companies, startups, government entities, and nonprofits researching some of the world's most interesting and complex search, observability and cybersecurity problems, and our services team assists our customers in the use of our products towards these efforts. The Delivery Manager will be a customer-facing role for leading our project delivery in the region, achieving revenue targets, managing communications, meeting facilitation, and reporting. The primary measurement of success for this role will be YOY growth in services revenue while consistently meeting customer satisfaction.

 

What You Will Be Doing:

• Complete Elastic training and become an expert in our Outcome Based Delivery Methodology and practices
• Managing the execution of all aspects of multiple professional services engagements from start to finish while identifying and mitigating risk, status reporting, 
• Engagement Execution from start to finish while identifying and mitigating risk, status reporting, and operations.
• Highly collaborative with Services sellers, architects, consultants, third-party partners, and customers
• Effectively partner with Services leadership to help build out your practice.
• Contribute to enhancing our delivery methodology, services practice, and industry Point of Views
• Become a key stakeholder in your accounts renewal and add-on process through continuous collaboration with the Customer Success Group and Account Executives
• Ability to manage a portfolio with multiple customers and engagements varying in size at one time by time management, strong prioritization, and setting customer expectations

What You Bring Along:

 

• 5+ years of consulting engagement delivery leadership experience
• Demonstrated the ability with establishing and leading high growth practices
• Technical understanding to evangelize our vision and implement it into project/account planning
• Engagement Planning - technical understanding, strategic mindset, translating Elastic vision into a tangible project plan
• Experience in executing projects from beginning to end with a strong prioritization and time management POV
• Strong communication and presentation skills and experience 
• Good Change Management skills
• Engagement Execution - identify and mitigate risk, status reporting, and operations
• Post Engagement - ability to identify renewal and add-on opportunities, using lessons learned and looping them back into our internal best practice
• Track record of improving high pressure or at-risk accounts when necessary
• Experience in the Software industry preferred.
• Highly collaborative and excels in a complex, matrixed environment
• Professional Services Automation (PSA) experience
• Experience with Project Planning tools, ideally SmartSheets 
• PMP/Scrum master certifications preferred
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, unpredictable environment

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary.  This role does not have a variable compensation component.  

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.  In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below. 

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.  

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.  Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:$94,300—$149,200 USDThe typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:$113,300—$179,200 USDAdditional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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