Manager, Customer Support and Project Delivery

Versaterm; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A global public safety solutions company in Canada is seeking a Manager for Customer Support and Project Delivery. Responsibilities include leading a team of specialists, overseeing support operations, and managing project coordination to enhance customer satisfaction. Ideal candidates have a background in public safety systems, strong leadership skills, and a Bachelor's degree. This role requires a commitment to operational excellence and a passion for community safety.

Benefits

Accommodations available upon request

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in customer success or related fields.
• 1-3 years in a team leadership or supervisory role.
• Strong knowledge of public safety systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Partner Success Specialists.
• Oversee Jira ticket resolution and communication.
• Manage onboarding and mentorship for new hires.
• Coordinate post-deployment project reviews.

Skills

Customer Success

Project Coordination

Communication Skills

Analytical Mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field

Tools

Jira

Kantata

Salesforce

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

Manager, Customer Support and Project Delivery

The Company

Versaterm is a global public safety solutions company helping agencies transform how they serve their communities. Since 1977, we’ve been building an ecosystem of intuitive tools designed for public safety agencies, forensic labs, court systems, schools and other institutions. Through purposeful integrations and a selective growth strategy, we focus on improving workflows to help our customers achieve more efficient operations, better service and more just outcomes.

Our teams are driven by innovation, expertise and an unwavering commitment to customer success. As we continue to grow and expand our ecosystem, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to solutions that enhance community safety and transform the future of public safety technology. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful difference, we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

The Manager, Customer Support and Project Delivery is responsible for leading a team of Partner Success Specialists (PSS) who support Versaterm’s existing CAD/RMS customers through two critical workstreams: non-technical customer support and post-deployment project coordination. The PSS team provides responsive, customer-focused support by managing incoming inquiries, monitoring Jira tickets, and ensuring consistent, professional communication. In parallel, the team serves as project coordinators and subject matter experts for ongoing customer initiatives such as system upgrades, vCloud migrations, and interface integrations.

This role ensures both support and project functions are delivered with operational excellence by providing team coaching, performance management, workload balancing, and proactive risk mitigation. The Manager works cross-functionally with Partner Success Managers, Product, and Implementation teams to ensure partner needs are surfaced and addressed throughout the customer lifecycle. This position is essential to maintaining partner satisfaction and retention by ensuring the PSS team delivers consistently high service and value across all engagements.

What You'll Do

• Provide day-to-day supervision, mentorship, and coaching for the Partner Success Specialist (PSS) team.
• Conduct regular 1:1 meeting to review Jira tickets, project schedules (Kantata), performance objectives, and partner health indicators.
• Manage onboarding plans (30/60/90 day) for new hires.
• Coordinate with PS Leadership to recruit, onboard, and mentor new PSSs as needed.
• Monitor and manage team workload in Kantata, ensuring balanced task distribution and bottleneck resolution.

Process & Program Ownership

• Own and evolve the PSS playbook, team Confluence space, and document standard processes and workflows.
• Partner with leadership to refine team roles, SOPs, and training curriculum.
• Ensure PSS adherence to processes across Jira, Kantata, vConnect, Confluence, and SharePoint.

Deployment & Project Coordination

• Coordinate resource planning for client upgrades, patch releases, and add-on deployments.
• Monitor Kantata resource allocations and staffing plans to ensure availability aligns with project needs.
• Ensure projects are properly configured in Kantata and reviewed regularly for audit, health, and risk indicators.
• Lead post-upgrade/project reviews and apply lessons learned to improve processes.

Support Oversight

• Oversee Jira ticket queue to ensure timely, professional resolution and communication.
• Act as escalation point for complex or high-risk non-technical issues.
• Proactively monitor and prioritize aging or high-impact tickets (10+ days open or 30+ days active).
• Review product suggestions for completeness and business relevance; manage follow-up discussions with Product.
• Facilitate internal product suggestion meetings and communicate outcomes to Product Owners.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Partner with PS Leadership to identify trends in customer sentiment and internal team performance.
• Promote cross-functional transparency by ensuring timely communication of key updates, risks, and delays to Partner Success Managers (PSMs).
• Lead planning and execution of CAD/RMS-related webinars and learning sessions.
• Oversee Versaterm Academy content; work with SMEs to maintain up-to-date and relevant training materials.
• Maintain accurate agency touchpoints and health scores in Salesforce.
• Continuously improve customer experience by tracking satisfaction, engagement, and retention.

Internal Knowledge Leadership

• Champion use of internal documentation (SSI pages, knowledge base articles, playbooks).
• Lead internal knowledge-sharing sessions to upskill and inform the PSS team.

Metrics Ownership

• Collaborate with leadership to define and track key performance indicators (e.g., ticket aging, project delivery timelines) to assess team effectiveness and drive accountability.
• Performs other related duties as assigned to support team objectives, departmental needs, and overall organizational priorities.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Public Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• 5-8 years of experience in customer success, public safety systems, or professional services; 1-3 years in a team leadership or supervisory role.
• Strong knowledge of Jira, Kantata, Confluence, Salesforce, and SharePoint.
• Experience with CAD/RMS systems (Versaterm preferred) is an asset.
• Demonstrated success in project coordination, support operations, or deployment planning.
• Proven ability to coach and manage performance across a distributed team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate professionally with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Analytical mindset with experience defining and tracking team metrics and KPIs.
• Collaborative approach with a demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, customer-focused, mission-critical environment.

This position requires security clearances due to the nature of our work with public safety agencies. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada and must successfully obtain and maintain a Reliability security clearance from the Government of Canada. Additionally, candidates must comply with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy and pass a comprehensive, fingerprint-based background check. Please note that specific customer contracts may impose additional security verification requirements. Obtaining and maintaining all required security clearances is a condition of employment. For more information, please visit Public Services and Procurement Canada for Reliability clearance details and the FBI's CJIS Security Policy Resource Center for CJIS requirements.

Versaterm is committed to building and supporting inclusion, diversity, and equity, and sustaining a barrier-free environment. Accommodations are available, on request, throughout all aspects of the selection process. These principles apply to the terms and conditions of employment at Versaterm. For detailed information on our accessibility policies, please [e-mail].