Client Implementation Manager

PayIt; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

PayIt, a GovTech leader in Raleigh, NC, seeks an experienced Implementation Manager to lead government SaaS deployments. You will own client implementations, gather business rules, configure platform tools, and coordinate across Product, Engineering, and Client Success to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.

You’ll manage test plans, document requirements, and build prototypes for client feedback while traveling 10–20% as projects require.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise software implementations.
• Ability to articulate product roadmaps and client deliverables.
• Proactive, collaborative approach to solving complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead SaaS implementations with government agency teams.
• Own client implementation efforts with PMO coordination.
• Develop prototypes using Platform tools based on client needs.
• Coordinate requirements with Product and engineering teams.
• Manage test planning and validate requirements with clients.
• Ensure configuration meets client and PayIt specs.

Skills

Project management

Client-facing

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Fast-paced environment

Travel readiness

Tools

Confluence

Trello

Teams

Slack

Jira

Draw.IO

LucidChart

Microsoft Office

Job description

PayIt is a fast-growing GovTech company on a mission to modernize how residents interact and transact with government, improving the customer experience and helping our client agencies more efficiently and effectively achieve their missions. Our easy-to-implement platform consolidates government services and payments into one connected experience and enables our clients to drive resident trust, collect revenue quickly, and redeploy their staff to more important challenges. This innovative approach to government service delivery has garnered significant recognition in both the public and private sectors, including our inclusion in the GovTech 100 every year since 2017. PayIt solutions cover services including hunting and fishing licensing, DMV, courts, property tax, utilities, tolling, and more.

Our culture welcomes people who exhibit what we call “PayIt DNA”: High integrity, drive, grit, high aptitude, and team orientation. We are collaborative and passionate about the work we do to improve the lives of our government clients and the end users they serve. We have ambitious scaling goals, and we look for team members who are ready to roll up their sleeves, solve problems, and find new opportunities to win with our clients. And we have a lot of fun together.

Travel will be required, between 10-20%.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead implementation of SaaS solutions with government agency teams.
• Own each client implementation effort by providing project management, gathering of business rules, implementation activities using PayIt Platform tools, and working with other teams where appropriate.
• Develop and configure prototypes using Platform tools based on clients’ business needs. Build and iterate to continually incorporate feedback from clients.
• Deliver any requirements requiring engineering or other teams to those teams, following the process and coordinating timelines with PMO.
• Manage test planning creation as well as the alignment of requirements with Product teams including logging and coordination of implementation issues and bugs, and validation of test plan and requirements with client.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure delivery of configuration meets both client and PayIt product specifications.
• Support clients in maintaining good platform hygiene (customer-friendly workflows, naming conventions, data set organization, etc.). Proactively problem solve by identifying potential configuration issues, user experience issues
• Serve as the primary connection point for steady-state handoff to Client Success, Operations, and Support.
• Develop training for various PayIt departments on user experience and unique client FAQs.
• Maintain, update, and develop client-related documentation internally and externally.
• Be a key player in coordinating efforts with client stakeholders.

What You’ll Need to Have:

• 3+ years of professional experience working for a software-based organization. Hands‑on experience in supporting or implementing applications using web technologies and/or working in a client‑facing Business or Solution Analyst capacity.
• Ability to lead large enterprise implementations across multiple stakeholder groups internally and externally.
• A proactive, logical, and collaborative approach to solving complex problems.
• Resiliency and the ability to handle multiple tasks and thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment. This is a growth company, so flexibility to adapt to (and likely effect change yourself) approaches & processes is critical!
• Strong technical aptitude, with the ability to influence clients while managing evolving SaaS requirements.
• Experience with the full project management lifecycle. Specifically to articulating product roadmaps and deliverables in a client‑facing capacity.
• Experience with Project Management and Collaboration Tools (i.e Confluence, Trello, Teams, Slack, Jira, etc.) Diagram and Visualization Solutions (i.e. Draw.IO, LucidChart, etc.), and Microsoft Office.
• Willingness to travel 10-20 percent of the time during normal travel conditions; travel varies based on project assignment requirements and client’s needs

Why Work For Us:

• Our mission matters. Your work will make life better for our government agency clients and the millions of residents they serve.
• You’ll do some of the best work of your career here. We tackle complex challenges that are interesting to solve, and you’ll grow a ton working at PayIt
• People are our most important resource. Everyone has a voice. Collaboration is our default setting. And we have fun together.
• We #payitforward with our corporate volunteer program, serving the communities where we work and live.
• Competitive salaries, excellent benefits, flexible working arrangements, and all the resources you will need to do your best work.

What We Care About:

We hire high aptitude, high integrity people who are great communicators and want to be part of a growing team.

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

PayIt is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other basis protected by applicable law.

PayIt is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an email to the People Operations Team and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

NOTE: U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship in the United States at this time. PayIt participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here. Canadian Citizens and those authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship are also encouraged to apply.

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