Manager, Delivery Excellence

Glean Glean · Enterprise · Customer Outcomes

This role is for a Manager of Delivery Excellence at Glean, an AI company focused on a Work AI platform. The role is responsible for leading a team that manages customer deployments of the Glean platform, ensuring efficient technical deployments, program management, and value realization. While the company is AI-focused and the product involves AI agents and an AI assistant, this specific role is about managing the delivery and success of these AI products for customers, rather than building or researching the AI itself.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead, grow, and mentor a team of Delivery Excellence Managers; own team performance, operating rhythms, and career development.
  2. Establish prescriptive delivery playbooks, templates, and operating standards (SSO, people data, connectors, readiness gates) to ensure consistent, high-quality deployments at scale.
  3. Own end‑to‑end delivery governance across your team’s accounts: kickoff, plan, deploy, go‑live, handoff, and renewal‑readiness, including proactive risk management and escalation handling.
  4. Set and report on portfolio‑level KPIs (deployment velocity, time‑to‑value, adoption, satisfaction, ROI proxies), and drive continuous improvement against these metrics.
  5. Partner with Sales, Solution Architects, AI Outcomes Managers, Support, and R&D to ensure a seamless customer journey and accelerate value realization post‑launch.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years in customer-facing delivery, implementation, technical account management, or consulting for enterprise SaaS
  • 2+ years leading/managing delivery or customer success/PS teams
  • Strong understanding of SDLC and modern delivery practices (Agile/DevOps)
  • Proven record of building playbooks, standardizing processes, and running delivery at scale with clear KPIs and continuous improvement cycles
  • Executive presence and clear communication
  • Analytical, systems-thinking mindset
  • Cloud fluency (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Nice to have

  • Willingness to obtain AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals, or Google Cloud Digital Leader within 90 days

What the JD emphasized

  • customer's deployment of the Glean platform
  • technical deployments
  • program management
  • measurable value realization
  • delivery governance
  • proactive risk management
  • escalation handling
  • portfolio-level KPIs
  • continuous improvement
  • accelerate value realization
  • measurable outcomes