Zendesk

Manager, Services Consulting

Zendesk$160K — $240K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in Professional Services, Technical Account Management, or Solutions Consulting within enterprise SaaS
  • 2+ years of managing customer-facing teams with 6-10 direct reports
  • Proven delivery management across multiple engagements ensuring utilization and quality
  • Excellent analytical, project management, and communication skills, particularly at the executive level
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Responsibilities

  • Lead and scale the regional consulting team, fostering a high-performance culture
  • Own delivery performance and ensure customer satisfaction across portfolio
  • Monitor and drive staffing and delivery KPIs, ensuring billable utilization
  • Identify risks and implement plans to retain ongoing services
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to boost customer adoption and retention
  • Innovate service delivery for efficiency and quality
  • Guide team through changes while maintaining performance and morale

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Career growth and advancement
  • Innovative work culture
Full Job Description
Job Description

Location: Austin, Madison

Department / Team: Expert Services - Services Consulting

Reports to: Bethany Neubauer

What you'll be doing
  • Lead and scale the regional consulting team: hire, coach, develop, and retain consultants; build a culture of accountability, customer focus and high performance.
  • Own delivery performance and customer outcomes across your portfolio, including, staffing, configuration, design, and customer satisfaction.
  • Monitor and drive staffing, billable utilization, capacity planning, and delivery KPIs
  • Surface risks and implement remediation plans to drive retention of ongoing services packages.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to drive customer adoption, expansion and retention.
  • Innovate services delivery motions for efficiency, scalability and quality.
  • Guide the team through evolving priorities, processes, and organizational shifts while maintaining performance and morale.


What you bring to the role
  • Proven people leader: you have proven experience hiring, coaching, and retaining world class teams and helping people grow in their careers
  • Change, adoption, and transformation leadership: you drive organizational and customer-facing change that increases adoption, speeds time-to-value, and delivers measurable business outcomes.
  • Data-driven: you use adoption and health metrics to measure value, predict churn/expansion, and turn insights into practical actions.
  • Delivery & operational excellence: you run complex engagements end-to-end, manage utilization and capacity, and improve productivity and margins.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: you align and partner with cross-functional teams in GTM, operations and Product.
  • Hands-on orientation: you support both strategic planning and tactical delivery.
  • Continuous Improvement & bias for action: You relentlessly iterate on processes, and move quickly-bringing an innovative mindset to identify new opportunities, experiment with better ways of working, and turn insights into impact.


Basic Qualifications
  • 7+ years in Professional Services / Technical Account Management / Consulting Services/Solutions Consulting in enterprise SaaS.
  • 2+ years of people management experience leading customer-facing teams (typical span: 6-10 direct reports).
  • Proven experience managing delivery across multiple concurrent engagements with responsibility for utilization, staffing, and quality.
  • Excellent analytical, project management, interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interface with the C-suite with ease.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).


Preferred Qualifications
  • Zendesk Administrator Certification or Experience with Zendesk configuration and implementation best practices.
  • Experience using and coaching teams on AI-enabled tools and workflows to improve internal processes and service delivery.
  • Ability to distill complex AI concepts for technical and non-technical teams.
  • Advanced degree (MBA) or certifications in project management, AI strategy, or relevant delivery methodologies.


The US annualized OTE (On Target Earnings) range for this position is $160,000.00-$240,000.00 with a pay mix of 91/9 (base/commission). This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives. While this range reflects the minimum and maximum value for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations, the offer for the successful candidate for this position will be based on job related capabilities, applicable experience, and other factors such as work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only (or OTE for commissions based roles), and do not include bonus, benefits, or related incentives.

About Zendesk

Zendesk is a customer service software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange with the symbol ZEN and is a constituent of the Russell 2000 Index. The company provides a cloud-based customer support platform which allows quicker and easier interaction between businesses and customers. Zendesk has over 4,000 employees and serves 150,000 customers in 160 countries. The company was founded in 2007 by Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl, and Alexander Aghassipour.
Learn more about Zendesk
Size
2,570 employees
Market Cap
$10.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$218.1 million
Founded
2007
5 Year Trend
+33.7%
Revenue
$1 billion
NASDAQ

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