Implementation Lead

Crelate; Eagle, Northern (ID, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Medical, Dental and Vision coverage

401k with company matching

Disability insurance (short & long)

Generous paid leave policy & holidays

Stock options for top performers

Job summary

Crelate in Eagle, ID, United States, is seeking an Implementation Lead to own highly customized client migrations and the onboarding journey. You will lead a small team, run data discovery, and shape end-to-end implementation processes from discovery to sign-off.

You’ll balance technical rigor with client relationship management to ensure successful adoption of our recruiting software. We value hands-on technologists who can translate client needs into concrete deliverables, using AI to

Qualifications

• 5+ years implementing or migrating clients onto a CRM/ATS/HRIS as a vendor.
• Led on an implementation, onboarding or professional services team.
• Proficient SQL and data mapping across systems with differing schemas.
• Experience gathering client requirements and translating them into deliverables.
• Strong data validation, QA discipline and client communication.

Responsibilities

• Own complex migrations from discovery to final sign-off, including staging and QA.
• Shape onboarding and implementation journeys end-to-end with defined stages and gates.
• Lead a small team of implementation consultants and collaborate on hard problems.
• Run data discovery with clients and convert findings into actionable requirements.
• Lead data review meetings, explain trade-offs, and manage scope without harming relationships.
• Escalate when migrations fail or relationships sour, coordinating with engineering.
• Own project sizing and align estimates with sales on scope.
• Plan capacity and allocation across the team, flagging misalignments early.
• Work with developers on migration tooling and provide evidence to guide builds.
• Participate in daily standups and drive projects to completion.

Skills

CRM migrations

Team leadership

SQL fundamentals

Data mapping

Requirements gathering

Data validation & QA

Client communication

AI acceleration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Bullhorn

PCRecruiter

JobDiva

Loxo

Avionte

Python (scripting)

Job description

Implementation Lead

Crelate - Eagle, ID, United States

Implementation Lead, Client Onboarding and Data Migration

Are you a hands-on technologist who would rather own the hardest client projects than hand them off? Do you want a small team around you and real control over how onboarding and implementation actually work, from a short customer training through a large custom implementation? Do you want to work in an entrepreneurial environment that is flexible and focused on results? If so, we might have the perfect opportunity for you!

Crelate, a fast-growing startup with over 1,500 customers, is seeking an Implementation Lead to join our growing team. Nearly every client who comes to us arrives carrying years of data in another system, and how well that data lands decides whether they ever really adopt the product. This is a builder's seat, not a management seat. You will personally own our most technically complex implementations, and you will lead a small team that shapes the whole onboarding journey with you.

Crelate's mission is to help more people, connect with better opportunities, more often. To do this, we are building the fastest, easiest, and most flexible recruiting and talent engagement software on the market, and we need your help to get the word out!

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the complex, heavily customized migrations from discovery through final approval, including staging, QA against the mapped requirements, client revisions, and the final sign off that says the migration is complete and correct.
• Shape the onboarding and implementation journey end to end, from short customer trainings through large custom implementations, defining the stages, the gates and the handoffs and then getting the team running against them.
• Lead a small team of implementation consultants, working the hard problems alongside them rather than taking the problems away, so complex work stops routing to one person.
• Run data discovery with new clients: get into their current system, understand how they actually use it as opposed to how it was designed, and turn that into requirements the client agrees to and we can deliver against.
• Lead customer data review meetings, explain trade-offs to people who are not technical, and hold a line on scope without damaging the relationship.
• Be the escalation point when a migration will not behave or a client relationship is going sideways, and know when to pull in engineering.
• Own scoping accuracy: size projects before they are sold, and own the conversation with sales when the estimate and the sold scope disagree.
• Plan capacity across the team, decide who takes what, and flag early when the plan and the pipeline do not agree.
• Work directly with our developers on migration tooling, bringing the field evidence that decides what gets built to remove manual work.
• Participate in the daily standup, drive your projects to done, and work collaboratively in a team environment.

Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years implementing or migrating clients onto a CRM, ATS, HRIS or comparable system of record, on the vendor side.
• A leader on an implementation, onboarding or professional services team. You may have managed one formally, or you may simply be the person your team already turns to and are ready to step into leading a small one.
• SQL fundamentals. You can query a dataset yourself, find the records that will not map, and explain why.
• Real data mapping across systems with different schemas, not just import templates.
• Requirements gathering directly with clients, including hearing what they need underneath what they asked for.
• Data validation and QA discipline. You check before you sign off, and you have a method for it rather than a habit.
• Strong client communication. Comfortable running the meeting, delivering hard news, and holding a date without overpromising.
• Strong AI skills. Put AI to work to accelerate time to value and the impact you can have, while being 100% responsible for the output.

Desired Experience:

• Staffing, recruiting or executive search industry experience. You know what a submittal, a placement and a hot list are.
• Experience with the systems our clients are leaving: Bullhorn, PCRecruiter, JobDiva, Loxo, Avionte or similar.
• Scripting for data transformation, Python or equivalent.
• A track record of building capability in other people, with a specific example of someone who could do more because of you.
• Experience taking an implementation methodology from definition through adoption, including the part where people resist it.
• Bachelors degree or a comparable track record demonstrating ability is a plus.

We can offer you:

• Flexible work hours, we're focused on results
• Plenty of opportunities to learn and wear lots of hats
• Startup life - flexible, relaxed, yet high stakes work environment
• Awesome coworkers who care about their work and each other
• Competitive benefits including:
  • Paid parental leave
  • Flexible spending and dependent care accounts
  • Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
  • 401k with company matching
  • Long and short-term disability insurance
  • A generous paid leave policy, which includes up to 14 days of office holidays (including a company-wide winter break)
  • And for team members who excel, stock option grants.

Our Culture:

We're entrepreneurial, passionate, and relentless about customer success. Everyone on the team talks and works directly with customers. Period. We share a collective passion for success, but not at any cost. We are striving to build an amazing product and a great business. This is no trivial task, and we lean on each other as we iterate our way to success. We value transparency, passion, effort, results, and growth.

We very much look forward to hearing from you, and reading over your cover letter that explains how you are a perfect fit for our company and this opportunity.