Director, Client Operations

Court Avenue; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CourtAvenue is seeking a Director, Client Operations to own delivery for complex, large-scale client engagements. You will apply disciplined program management to ensure scope, cost, time, and quality, acting as a strategic partner with clients and the Business Innovation team.

This high-visibility role requires 9–12+ years in PM/Program management, with experience delivering CMS or enterprise content platforms and leading multi-workstream programs. Hybrid work in Minneapolis, MN.

Qualifications

• 9 to 12+ years of project/program management experience, with at least 5 years leading enterprise programs
• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-workstream programs with diverse stakeholders
• Experience delivering CMS/enterprise content platforms (headless CMS, DXP, composable architecture)
• Executive-level communication to provide status and strategic recommendations
• Experience managing Agile/Scrum delivery for technical platforms; hybrid Agile-Waterfall environments

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery for engagements: scope, cost, risk, status
• Coordinate across internal teams and external partners
• Run governance cadences for status, prioritization, and dependencies
• Support change management and adoption planning post-launch
• Build trusted client relationships as a strategic partner
• Identify opportunities to deepen client relationships with leadership
• Mentor and develop junior project managers on engagements
• Escalate and resolve delivery issues and risks
• Ensure consistent PM methodology and delivery standards
• Communicate clearly with day-to-day and senior stakeholders
• Contribute to new business and pipeline growth

Skills

Program management

Executive presence

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder management

Tools

Adobe Experience Cloud

Contentful

Optimizely

Job description

CourtAvenue is a company of industry experts accelerating digital transformation for the world's most ambitious companies. At CourtAvenue, you will be a part of a culture powered by entrepreneurs, technologists, data scientists and the habitually restless, dedicated, and energized to design products and services that transform businesses while optimizing them for growth. You will have the opportunity to learn and grow within a culture that values innovation while focusing on redesigning the experience between consumer and service (or product) by leveraging a fluid, seamless, and thoroughly transparent engagement.

The Director, Client Operations owns delivery for complex, large-scale client engagements, applying disciplined program management to ensure work is delivered on scope, cost, time, and quality. This person is a strategic partner as much as a delivery lead. Someone clients trust, who can navigate ambiguity across multiple stakeholders, and who helps grow the relationship alongside our Business Innovation team.

This is a high-visibility role for CourtAvenue as we grow our presence in Minneapolis. Delivery discipline and stakeholder management aren’t nice-to-haves here, they’re what earns and keeps our accounts. We need someone who has run programs at this scale before, brings structure and calm when things get complicated, and can build the kind of trust with our clients that outlasts any single project.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery for one or more engagements: scope, cost estimation, risk management, and status reporting


• Serve as the primary senior point of coordination across internal teams and any external partners, resolving scope and ownership ambiguity as it surfaces


• Run recurring governance cadences including status reporting, prioritization, and dependency management to keep cross-functional work aligned and unblocked


• Support change management workstreams as needed: help assess organizational readiness, contribute to adoption planning, and ensure client teams are equipped to sustain platform implementations post-launch


• Serve as a trusted point of contact for clients, building credibility as a strategic partner and not just a delivery lead


• Partner with Business Innovation leadership to identify and pursue opportunities to deepen and grow client relationships


• Lead, mentor, and develop project managers supporting your engagements


• Serve as escalation point for project teams; identify and resolve issues, manage risk, and execute mitigation plans


• Ensure consistent application of program management methodology, controls, and delivery standards across engagements


• Communicate clearly and confidently across a wide range of stakeholders, from day-to-day client contacts to senior client and internal leadership


• Contribute to new business and pitch initiatives that support pipeline growth

Requirements

• 9 to 12+ years of project/program management experience, with at least 5 years in an agency or consultancy delivering for enterprise clients


• Demonstrated experience leading large, multi-workstream programs involving multiple stakeholders, vendor partners, and technical delivery teams


• Technical PM background delivering CMS or enterprise content platform implementations (e.g., headless CMS, DXP, or composable content architecture)


• Executive presence and communication skills: able to present delivery status and strategic recommendations to executive level stakeholders with equal fluency


• Experience running Agile/Scrum delivery for technical platform implementations; comfortable managing hybrid Agile-waterfall programs across engineering, creative, and strategy workstreams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or supporting change management workstreams on technology platform implementations (e.g., organizational readiness, adoption planning, post-launch enablement)


• Hands-on delivery or oversight experience with one or more enterprise content platforms (e.g., Adobe Experience Cloud, Contentful, Optimizely, or similar composable/DXP tools) is a plus, not a requirement

$135,000 - $160,000 a year

Final compensation will be determined based on total related experience as well as geography of the candidate selected.

Work Environment

Our organization follows a structured-hybrid work model, where employees work in an office environment in the middle of the week and remotely on Mondays and Fridays.

Candidates for this position must be located in or willing to relocate to the Minneapolis, MN metropolitan area.

CourtAvenue, INC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CourtAvenue recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or genetic information.

CourtAvenue, INC. participates in the E-Verify program. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form (I-9) upon hire.