Senior Manager, Professional Services - EMEA
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. <br><br>Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. <br><br>Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.</p></div><p>Chainguard is looking for a Senior Manager of Professional Services - EMEA to lead delivery for a portion of our Enterprise segment. In this role, you'll own the end-to-end customer journey across implementations, consulting engagements, and advisory services — ensuring customers successfully adopt Chainguard solutions and achieve measurable outcomes.</p> <p>You'll lead and develop a team of Solutions Architects while driving delivery that is predictable, scalable, and consistently high quality. This is an operational leadership role that requires equal parts customer empathy, business acumen, and a bias toward execution.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <p><em>Delivery & Segment Ownership</em></p> <ul> <li>Own end-to-end PS delivery across onboarding, implementation, advisory, and expansion for your Enterprise segment</li> <li>Monitor and improve utilization, on-time delivery, and customer satisfaction KPIs</li> <li>Serve as the escalation point for complex or at-risk engagements</li> </ul> <p><em>Team Leadership & Development</em></p> <ul> <li>Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solutions Architects</li> <li>Set performance expectations, coach to them, and own career development and succession planning</li> <li>Partner with PS leadership on hiring and capacity planning</li> </ul> <p><em>Services Strategy & Operations</em></p> <ul> <li>Standardize delivery methodologies, tools, and best practices</li> <li>Improve operational processes for efficiency, scalability, and predictability</li> </ul> <p><em>Cross-Functional Partnership</em></p> <ul> <li>Collaborate with Sales, CS, Product, Engineering, and Support for a seamless customer experience</li> <li>Support pre-sales on strategic or complex opportunities</li> <li>Funnel customer feedback into product and services improvements</li> <li>Partner with PS leadership to evolve services packaging and pricing</li> </ul> <p><em>Customer Outcomes & Growth</em></p> <ul> <li>Ensure customers achieve defined business outcomes through services engagements</li> <li>Identify expansion opportunities in partnership with Sales and CS</li> <li>Proactively manage escalations and capture customer insights to improve delivery</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></h3> <ul> <li>7+ years in Professional Services, Consulting, Customer Success, or a related field</li> <li>2+ years of leadership experience managing delivery teams or PS operations for a customer segment</li> <li>Technical background in cybersecurity, DevOps, software engineering, or a related domain</li> <li>Strong project or program management capabilities</li> <li>Experience working cross-functionally in a high-growth technology environment</li> <li>Excellent communication skills — comfo