Vice President, Worldwide Professional Services- Data Solutions

Actian; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Worldwide Professional Services Vice President to lead a global delivery organization. This role involves driving strategy and operations for enterprise customers, focusing on cloud-native data solutions and customer success. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in professional services and a strong understanding of both legacy and modern data ecosystems.

Benefits

Competitive executive compensation

Equity

Global visibility

Qualifications

• 15+ years in professional services or customer-facing roles.
• Expertise in legacy RDBMS and modern data ecosystems.
• Experience managing global delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a global professional services organization.
• Drive customer adoption for cloud-native offerings.
• Recruit and develop a world-class services team.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Success

Operational Excellence

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

DB2

Collibra

Alation

Monte Carlo

Databand

Bigeye

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

About Actian

Our Vision is to be the Most Trusted, Flexible and Easy to Use Hybrid Cloud Data Platform. Actian is transforming industries by empowering companies to accelerate application modernization and simplify the Cloud journey. Our customers use the Actian Data Platform to unify their siloed data, explore and securely exchange data to run a variety of analytic workloads that provide real-time business insights at a fraction of the cost. We have 24 of the Fortune 100 companies using Actian technology in some of the most mission-critical applications that impact your daily life.

About the Role

We seek an experienced and visionary Worldwide Professional Services Vice President to lead a global delivery organization supporting enterprise customers across legacy and modern data ecosystems. This executive will drive strategy, operations, and execution of services around our extensive relational database portfolio, accelerating customer success in our newly acquired and OEM-partnered cloud-based data catalog and data observability solutions.

This is a high-impact leadership role for a transformation-minded executive who thrives at the intersection of customer success, operational excellence, and emerging data technology.

Key Responsibilities

1. Global Services Leadership
2. Lead, scale, and manage a high-performing global professional services organization.
3. Define and execute the global services strategy in alignment with the COO and corporate objectives.
4. Ensure world-class service delivery, customer outcomes, and services profitability.
5. Strategic Transformation
6. Drive customer adoption and value realization for new cloud-native data catalog and observability offerings.
7. Lead integration and operationalization of technologies acquired via M&A and OEM partnerships.
8. Portfolio Management
9. Maintain and modernize support for legacy RDBMS platforms.
10. Build new offerings around metadata management, lineage, data quality, and observability.
11. Customer Engagement & Advocacy
12. Serve as executive sponsor for strategic customers undergoing data transformation.
13. Partner closely with Product, Sales, and Customer Success to align service offerings to evolving customer needs.
14. Talent Development & Culture
15. Recruit, retain, and grow a world-class services team across global regions.
16. Foster a high-performance, customer-first culture of continuous learning and innovation.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive leadership in professional services, consulting, or customer-facing technical roles.
• Expertise in both legacy RDBMS (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, DB2) and modern data ecosystems.
• Proven experience managing global delivery teams and driving operational excellence at scale.
• Familiarity with modern data catalog and observability platforms (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Monte Carlo, Databand, Bigeye).
• Deep experience in managing OEM partnerships and integrating acquired technologies into services portfolios.
• Strong executive presence, communication skills, and cross-functional leadership.

Preferred Experience

• M&A integration experience with focus on services and technology alignment.
• Track record of scaling services P&L and managing global partner ecosystems.
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data governance best practices.
• Deep domain expertise in Data Catalog, Data Observability, and Data Quality markets.

Why Join Us

• Shape the future of data services for a global organization in transformation.
• Work alongside the COO and executive team to influence strategic direction and delivery excellence.
• Help enterprise clients modernize from legacy systems to next-gen data intelligence platforms.
• Enjoy competitive executive compensation, equity, and global visibility.

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.