Manager, Delivery Excellence

Glean Glean · Enterprise · Bangalore, India · Customer Outcomes

Glean is seeking a Manager, Delivery Excellence in Bangalore to lead a team responsible for customer deployments of their Work AI platform. This role involves establishing delivery playbooks, managing end-to-end delivery governance, setting KPIs, partnering with various internal teams, engaging with executive sponsors, and influencing product roadmaps based on field feedback. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in customer-facing delivery for enterprise SaaS, with 2+ years in leadership, strong SDLC understanding, experience building playbooks, executive presence, and cloud fluency.

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

  • Customer-facing delivery
  • Implementation
  • Technical account management
  • Consulting for enterprise SaaS
  • Leading/managing delivery or customer success/PS teams
  • SDLC
  • Modern delivery practices (Agile/DevOps)
  • SSO setup
  • People data
  • Enterprise connector configuration
  • Building playbooks
  • Standardizing processes
  • Running delivery at scale with clear KPIs
  • Continuous improvement cycles
  • Executive presence
  • Clear communication
  • Leading escalations
  • Aligning cross-functional stakeholders
  • Outcome-oriented decisions
  • Analytical, systems-thinking mindset
  • Diagnosing deployment blockers
  • Translating field insights into product/process enhancements
  • Cloud fluency (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Nice to have

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
  • Google Cloud Digital Leader

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise SaaS
  • enterprise trust