Senior Engagement Delivery Lead | Global AI-Driven Outcomes

Apptad Inc; Ohio; Presencial; USD 130.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Apptad Inc is seeking a seasoned Delivery Leader to oversee large, multi-workstream engagements, coordinating across customer, partner, and internal teams. You will drive governance, risk management, and executive communications to ensure timely, valuable outcomes.

You will apply the Now Create methodology and ServiceNow guidance, mentor partners, and foster cross-geography collaboration, while travel up to 50% is expected.

Formación

• 8+ years of progressive professional services experience or equivalent education and experience.
• Industry-domain expertise aligned with the supported workflow.
• Demonstrated success independently leading large, complex implementations and multi-team delivery environments.
• Advanced expertise in project implementation, scheduling, monitoring, governance, financial management, resource management, risk management, issue resolution, and change control.
• Strong executive communication, customer-facing leadership, facilitation, negotiation, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proven success driving complex delivery issues through analysis and resolution.
• Working knowledge of Scrum, ITIL, and the Now Create methodology; Scrum and ITIL certifications are optional.
• Required certification: ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA).
• ServiceNow certifications aligned with the supported workflow are preferred.
• Ability to apply AI tools to streamline workflows, generate insights, and support strategic initiatives.
• Understanding of core AI concepts, ethical considerations, and platform capabilities, with the ability to explain their application in customer contexts.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the delivery team across large, complex, and potentially multi-workstream engagements, frequently in collaboration with services partners.
• Apply advanced project implementation, scheduling, monitoring, and delivery-management expertise to maintain effective and timely execution.
• Manage engagement governance, timeline, scope, risks, issues, change, resources, reporting, and financials.
• Build strong cross-geography, cross-functional, customer, and partner relationships that support delivery and strengthen the Expert Services brand.
• Work with the Sales Account Team, customer, partner, and delivery leadership to understand engagement objectives, challenges, issues, and expected value.
• Apply the Now Create methodology and ServiceNow prescriptive guidance to promote successful delivery and long-term customer outcomes.
• Serve as the primary contact for delivery coordination, executive communication, escalation response, collaboration, and customer agreement on proposed solutions.
• Identify gaps between actual performance and the plan of record and drive timely corrective action and resolution.
• Coach, mentor, and manage services partners, Engagement Managers, and Associate Engagement Managers.
• Communicate a clear delivery story through governance forums, executive updates, status reporting, and difficult customer conversations.
• Initiate: Host kickoff workshops, submit resource requests, issue the project plan and workshop schedule, establish governance forums.
• Plan: Coordinate customer workshops, maintain risks, issues, decisions, actions, and changes, and direct release and sprint planning.
• Execute: Lead governance forums, daily stand-ups, scope checkpoints; distribute executive status reporting; maintain resource plans.
• Close: Lead or support the customer closeout workshop, conduct lessons learned, review customer feedback, and document value.

Conocimientos

Project management

Delivery leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Scrum

ITIL

ServiceNow CSA

AI tooling

Strategic planning

Herramientas

ServiceNow

AI tools

Descripción del empleo

Apptad Inc is seeking a seasoned Delivery Leader to oversee large, multi-workstream engagements, coordinating across customer, partner, and internal teams. You will drive governance, risk management, and executive communications to ensure timely, valuable outcomes.

You will apply the Now Create methodology and ServiceNow guidance, mentor partners, and foster cross-geography collaboration, while travel up to 50% is expected.