Senior Engagement Manager

• Own and lead selected, simultaneous billable customer engagements and manage customer expectations and drive prescriptive outcomes during the entire customer lifecycle(Pre Sales to Post Sales, Delivery, and Value Realization).
• Work with customers (including up to C level) and stakeholders to understand and analyze engagement scope, requirements, time, cost, and benefits.
• Drive the end-to-end engagement lifecycle to deliver business outcomes.
• Drive project management activities and oversee completion of engagement kickoffs, project charters, and deliverables, managing schedules, meeting milestones, and ensuring success throughout the engagement cycle.
• Engage with the Presales team to position and drive PS for new opportunities.
• Collaborate with other cross-functional teams(Sales, Pre Sales, Customer Success, Operations, Resource Management) to work on offerings, proposals pertaining to Professional Services, and other operational tasks such as reporting and invoicing.
• Prepare customer-facing and internal collateral such as solution presentations, blueprints, reusable artefacts, project plans, burnout, and status reports.
• Identify, prioritize, and own resolution of internal and customer escalations project risks, driving an effective resolution across technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities for new professional services by understanding and addressing potential new use cases.
• Articulate the business value in the upsell and/or extension of services.
• Motivate, inspire, and mentor project team members to excel, and act as the GoTo person for Sales Pre Sales to demonstrate Professional Services best practices and delivery framework.
• Demonstrate the value of Professional Services externally and internally.
• Represents Professional Services within account planning sessions and is able to formulate PS strategy holistically.
• Helps innovate tooling and processes to help mature and evolve our systems and processes.
• Makes use of productivity tools like Financial Force, Salesforce, Metabase, Trello, to maintain and manage programs of multiple onboarding and implementation projects along with reporting on key business metrics(Billings, Utilizations, Resource Capacity, and Forecasting).
• And any additional tasks required by the manager.
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What you will bring

• Excellent customer-facing skills and ability to communicate with executives as well as other stakeholders at customer sites and cross-functionally within Kong.
• Ability to demonstrate relationship building internally and externally.
• Exceptional organizational and change management skills with an ability to manage competing client demands.
• Strong project/program management and services delivery experience with a track record of delivery for strategic customers on time and within budget.
• Deep experience working with project financial fundamentals and PSA tools such as Financial Force to own and drive operational activities (Reporting, Forecasting, and Tracking).
• Excellent presentation skills along with a strong understanding of professional services business metrics in a SaaS software environment.
• Ability to manage critical and political situations with business stakeholders with strong interpersonal skills, customer-centric attitude, and ability to deal with cultural diversity.
• Proven team player, and team builder who loves to work in a fast-growing and roll up their sleeves in a dynamic environment and is able to keep pace with constant change.
• Ideally has prior experience working in the Open Source space and/or API Management or other Middleware/SaaS software companies.