Sr. Program Architect, Professional Services

About the position

Betterworks is HR software to align, develop, and activate your workforce for business growth. Organizations are able to replace outdated, ineffective, universally loathed annual review processes with powerful Continuous Performance Management programs that help managers be better at the conversations, coaching, and development necessary to inspire and motivate the entire workforce to achieve an organization's top priorities today and be ready for tomorrow's challenges. The Opportunity Embark on a new print of innovation: Join us as a Sr. Program Architect and unleash your experience with us! The Professional Services team’s mission is to successfully implement and ingrain our solution to enable customers to effectively utilize and adopt BetterWorks’ solution over the long-term. The Professional Services team is part of our Customer Success team, which is dedicated to delivering a world-class experience to our customers and helping them embrace Continuous Performance Enablement and best practices. The Program Architect is a vital, customer-facing role within the team, leading the charge to implement our solutions for our customers. This role reports to the Vice President of Professional Services. This is a remote role.

Responsibilities

  • Manage multiple concurrent customer implementation projects from start to finish for enterprise customers, including Fortune 500 firms.
  • Consult with customers, from individual contributors to executives, on change management needed for a successful roll-out. This includes roll-out planning, program design and executive engagement.
  • Lead workshops with customers to design a performance enablement program within their organization.
  • Serve as a Subject Matter Expert on Corporate HR Performance programs, including goal-setting, recognition, 1on1’s, Calibration, Engage, Development, Skills, Succession Planning, Feedback, and the BetterWorks platform.
  • Develop and execute against detailed implementation plans, including but not limited to coaching customers on developing tailored communication, training strategy, and technical integrations.
  • Work with customers to build their communication and training strategies for performance enablement programs.
  • Design and deliver training and workshops to all levels of organization as needed.
  • Demonstrate cross-functional leadership to deliver exceptional services and make our customers successful
  • Work with customers and product management to help outline product enhancements necessary for successful customer launches.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in leading SaaS implementations for large and complex organizations, including building roll-out plans and consulting on change management.
  • 7+ years of experience designing performance enablement programs for customers.
  • Experience consulting to customers, preferably from within an HR Talent Management technology company.
  • Exceptional client management and communications skills.
  • Ability to deliver key workshops to C-Level leaders within large organizations.
  • Willingness to travel to customer locations as needed - typically less than 10% travel required.
  • Proven track record of managing multiple concurrent projects with varying complexity levels.
  • Proven track record of leading projects at large, global, complex organizations.
  • Strong presentation, meeting facilitation, and written communication skills required.
  • Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice-to-haves

  • Project Management Certification a plus.
  • Experience with APIs, Integrations, JIRA, Salesforce, and Zendesk is a plus.

Benefits

  • 100% paid Medical/Vision/Dental for employees
  • Flexible time off
  • Parental Paid Leave policy
  • monthly internet stipend
  • flex days
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