Professional Services Manager (Implementation Manager)

LM Wind Power / GE; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

First Advantage is seeking a Professional Services Manager (Implementation) to own customer onboarding and implementations. You will translate business and technical requirements into practical, scalable solutions, aligning customers and internal teams for timely go-live and revenue enablement.

The role is 100% remote, based in the United States, with up to 25% travel. Strong leadership, discovery, and API translation skills are essential to drive successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading complex implementations in B2B SaaS.
• Experience in discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, governance.
• Ability to translate integrations and APIs into business impact.
• Strong negotiation, influence, and stakeholder accountability.
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, and cross-functional leadership.
• Experience partnering with Sales, Product, Technology, Operations, and Client Success.
• Background screening or HR tech experience is a plus.
• Formal project or change management certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementations from discovery to go-live, ensuring success.
• Translate customer requirements into scalable solutions.
• Guide customers toward best-practice decisions.
• Define implementation plans with scope, milestones, and owners.
• Negotiate scope, priorities, and timelines with stakeholders.
• Coordinate across Sales, Product, Technology, Operations, and Customer Success.
• Lead integration planning and testing.
• Drive go-live and first revenue while managing risk.
• Improve playbooks and deliverables with lessons learned.

Skills

Leadership

Discovery

Requirements gathering

Solution design

Scope & risk

Project governance

Negotiation

APIs & Integrations

Cross-functional leadership

AI/Automation tools

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Tools

ATS/HRIS platforms

Job description

At First Advantage (Nasdaq: FA), people are at the heart of everything we do. From our customers and partners to our greatest advantage - our team members. Operating with empathy and compassion, First Advantage fosters a global inclusive workforce devoted to the diverse voices that make up our talent and products. Our team members empower each other to be their authentic selves and treat all with respect, integrity, and fairness. Say hello to a rewarding career and come join a leading provider of mission-critical background screening solutions to some of the most recognized Fortune 100 and Global 500 brands.

What You’ll Do:

As Professional Services Manager (Implementation) you will be the connective tissue between customer requirements and successful onboarding to the First Advantage program. Owning implementations from discovery through go-live, you will translate technical and operational requirements into practical business solutions, align customers and internal teams around clear decisions, and accelerate time to revenue without compromising quality or customer outcomes. This is a customer-facing role for someone who can move confidently between business strategy, solution design, project execution, and stakeholder influence. You will bring structure to ambiguity and guide customers toward scalable best-practice solutions. This is a 100% remote position; however, the individual must be based in the United States and be available to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities:

• Lead implementations across the First Advantage product portfolio, from discovery and solution design through configuration, testing, go-live, stabilization, and transition to Customer Success.
• Turn customer business and technical requirements into scalable, supportable solutions.
• Lead discovery, explain trade-offs and constraints, and guide customers toward best-practice decisions.
• Build and govern customer-centric implementation plans with clear scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, decisions, and success measures.
• Negotiate scope, priorities, timelines, responsibilities, and solution choices with customers and internal stakeholders while maintaining trusted relationships.
• Orchestrate delivery across Sales, Product, Technology, Operations, Customer Success, ATS/HRIS partners, and customer teams, resolving blockers and holding stakeholders accountable.
• Lead integration planning, configuration, and pre- and post-production testing.
• Coding is not required, but technical fluency and strong solution leadership is essential.
• Drive progress toward go-live and first revenue, proactively managing scope creep, delivery risk, customer dependencies, and recovery plans.
• Use lessons learned and customer insights to improve implementation playbooks, reusable solutions, and delivery processes, while sharing expertise with peers.

How You’ll Work:

• High Emotional Intelligence: Listen actively, adapt your communication, and navigate challenging discussions while maintaining trust.
• Collaborative Influence: Build alignment without relying on authority and move teams toward clear decisions and shared accountability.
• Business Acumen: Connect implementation choices to customer outcomes, operational impact, revenue, risk, and scalability.
• Creative Curiosity: Ask incisive questions, explore root causes, and design practical solutions that balance customer needs with delivery standards.
• Learning Agility: Experiment thoughtfully, learn from setbacks, and adjust quickly without losing momentum.

What Success Looks like:

• Customers understand the implementation path, decisions required, and responsibilities needed to adopt the agreed solution.
• Projects are tightly scoped and actively governed, with transparent ownership, risks, decisions, and next steps.
• Solutions are technically feasible, commercially sound, scalable, and aligned with best practice.
• Cross-functional teams align early, blockers are resolved quickly, and avoidable rework and customization are reduced.
• Implementations reach go-live and first revenue with speed, predictability, and customer confidence.

What You Will Need to be Successful:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional work experience.
• 5+ years leading complex implementations, professional services engagements, solution delivery, or comparable customer onboarding programs in B2B SaaS.
• Demonstrated strength in discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, scope and risk management, project governance, testing, and launch readiness.
• Proven ability to negotiate, influence through expertise and data, and hold customer and internal stakeholders accountable to commitments.
• Ability to translate integrations, APIs, data exchange, configuration, and ATS/HRIS concepts into clear business implications and actionable recommendations.
• Coding experience is not required.
• Excellent facilitation, executive presence, presentation, written communication, analytical judgment, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Experience partnering with Sales or pre-sales, Product, Technology, Operations, and Client Success.
• Helpful, But Not Required Experience in background screening, HR technology, HCM, identity, compliance technology, or another complex or regulated B2B environment such as financial services or healthcare.
• Solutions consulting, technical account management, or pre-sales solutioning experience.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools, automation, or analytics to improve implementation speed, quality, documentation, or decision-making.
• Formal project or change management certification.

Why First Advantage is Your Next Big Career Move:

First Advantage is going through a technology transformation! We are looking for experts who are excited to work with advanced technologies and provide best-in-class user experience, drive the development and deployment of scalable solutions, and smoothly guide our agile teams and clients through meaningful changes as we continue to expand our impact.

Additional benefits offered to our eligible people include:

• Ability to work remotely with occasional business travel.
• Medical, Vision, Dental, and supplementary benefit plans.
• 401k with an employer match, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Competitive and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) and 9 paid company holidays.
• Access to tech and growth opportunities, and leaders who want you to succeed!

Employee Benefits:

• Professional development opportunities, such as our award-winning SOAR program
• Generous Paid Time Off Program
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO) Policy to encourage involvement in philanthropic activities
• Competitive benefits (medical, dental, etc.)
• Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) available to all team members
• Opportunities to connect with colleagues across six Employee Impact Groups and participate in Employee Experience events throughout the year
• Must meet hourly work requirement to be eligible

Equal Employment Opportunities at First Advantage

First Advantage is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing a workplace and recruitment process that is free from unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Employment decisions at First Advantage are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate in any aspect of employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or family status, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

First Advantage is a leading provider of global software and data in the HR technology industry. Enabled by its proprietary technology and AI, First Advantage’s platforms, data, and APIs power comprehensive employment background screening, digital identity solutions, and verification services. With a strong emphasis on innovation, automation, and customer success, First Advantage empowers 80,000 organizations to hire smarter and onboard faster. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, First Advantage serves customers in over 200 countries and territories, modernizing hiring and onboarding on a global scale.

For more information, please visit our website at https://fadv.com/.

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Salary Range:

The salary range for this position is approximately $80-90K USD annually.