Account Partner, Professional Services

PagerDuty PagerDuty · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Customer Success

PagerDuty is seeking an Account Partner, Professional Services to define and scale Professional Services growth strategies, drive organizational excellence, and establish measurable customer outcome frameworks across PagerDuty's enterprise and strategic customer segments. This role owns the evolution of our services go-to-market motion, architects repeatable engagement models, and partners with Sales, Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Delivery, Product, and Marketing leadership to align advisory, implementation, enablement, and automation services to market needs spanning incident response, AIOps, and service ownership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect and execute multi-threaded Professional Services strategies within strategic and enterprise accounts; orchestrate 2–12 week services deal cycles with executive alignment and commercial rigor.
  2. Consistently meet or exceed services bookings, attach-rate, and consumption targets while driving predictable pipeline generation and velocity metrics.
  3. Lead discovery to map business-critical pains (noise, toil, on-call fatigue, change risk, slow comms) to differentiated service offerings, scoped SOWs, and multi-phase engagement roadmaps.
  4. Deliver compelling value narratives (ROI, time-to-value, risk mitigation, competitive differentiation) tailored to C-level and VP stakeholders across IT, Engineering, and Operations.
  5. Co-architect account strategies with Account Executives, CSMs, and Solutions Engineers to align enterprise business outcomes with services-led transformation milestones and measurable impact.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years in Professional Services sales, solutions consulting, or services leadership within SaaS or enterprise software
  • SaaS or enterprise software experience
  • Strategic leadership
  • Consultative selling
  • Organizational capabilities building
  • Best practices definition
  • Market insights translation
  • Portfolio-level growth driving
  • Customer outcomes driving
  • Team effectiveness driving
  • Pipeline development
  • Services go-to-market strategy
  • Engagement model architecture
  • Sales alignment
  • Customer Success alignment
  • Solutions Engineering alignment
  • Delivery alignment
  • Product alignment
  • Marketing alignment
  • Advisory services
  • Implementation services
  • Enablement services
  • Automation services
  • Incident response
  • AIOps
  • Service ownership
  • Discovery leadership
  • Business-critical pain mapping
  • Service offering differentiation
  • SOW scoping
  • Engagement roadmap creation
  • Value narrative delivery
  • ROI articulation
  • Time-to-value articulation
  • Risk mitigation articulation
  • Competitive differentiation articulation
  • C-level stakeholder engagement
  • VP stakeholder engagement
  • IT stakeholder engagement
  • Engineering stakeholder engagement
  • Operations stakeholder engagement
  • Account strategy co-architecture
  • Enterprise business outcome alignment
  • Services-led transformation milestone alignment
  • Measurable impact alignment
  • Services positioning
  • Platform adoption
  • Incident response maturity
  • AIOps signal tuning
  • Event orchestration
  • Automation/runbooks
  • AI-driven operations
  • Enterprise integrations (e.g., ServiceNow, Jira, Slack/Teams, AWS, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, GitHub/GitLab, Terraform)
  • Quantifiable business impact driving
  • MTTA/MTTR reduction
  • Toil elimination
  • Developer productivity gains
  • SLO adherence
  • Operational cost savings
  • Customer renewal influence
  • Customer expansion influence
  • Scoping
  • Pricing
  • Delivery orchestration
  • Engagement architecture
  • Engagement pricing
  • Engagement resource allocation
  • Customer transformation objectives balancing
  • Margin targets balancing
  • Scalable delivery models
  • Handoff management
  • Commercial ownership
  • Blocker identification
  • Blocker removal
  • Delivery de-risking
  • Follow-on services identification
  • Expansion opportunity identification
  • SOW alignment
  • Success criteria alignment
  • Measurable acceptance metrics alignment
  • Timeline realism alignment
  • Strategic value realization framework alignment
  • Forecasting
  • Operational rigor
  • CRM data accuracy
  • Multi-quarter close plans
  • Sales methodologies (e.g., MEDDPICC)
  • Pipeline hygiene discipline
  • Engagement health monitoring
  • Entitlement consumption monitoring
  • Customer sentiment monitoring
  • Services utilization driving
  • Renewal readiness driving
  • Proactive expansion driving
  • Product feedback provision
  • Delivery feedback provision
  • Packaging refinement
  • Pricing refinement
  • Repeatable delivery framework refinement
  • Accelerator refinement
  • Go-to-market positioning refinement
  • Stakeholder collaboration
  • Cross-functional partnership
  • Customer lifecycle milestone alignment
  • Case study collaboration
  • Executive reference collaboration
  • Customer success story collaboration
  • Realized outcomes showcasing
  • Competitive wins showcasing
  • Services-led differentiation showcasing
  • Executive workshop facilitation
  • Maturity assessment facilitation
  • Strategic roadmap session facilitation
  • Business strategy translation
  • Actionable, services-led transformation workstream creation
  • Customer education
  • Service ownership best practices
  • Incident lifecycle excellence
  • AIOps/automation value realization
  • Operational resilience frameworks
  • Strategic advisor role
  • Digital operations transformation guidance
  • Organizational change navigation
  • Toolchain consolidation guidance
  • Platform modernization guidance

What the JD emphasized

  • proven track record of strategic impact and organizational influence
  • Demonstrated success defining go-to-market strategies, building service offerings, or leading