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Delivery Excellence Manager (East Coast/EMEA hours)
TLDR
Lead successful AI implementations and customer engagements, ensuring measurable business outcomes and strategic guidance as a Delivery Excellence Manager.
About Glean:
Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.
At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.
Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.
About the Role:
As a Delivery Excellence Manager (DEM), you will lead and orchestrate successful implementations and long-term customer engagements, making our customers wildly successful. You will be responsible for ensuring efficient technical deployment, delivering proactive strategic guidance, and building then delivering against joint success plans. DEMs collaborate closely with Account Executives, AI Outcomes Managers, Solution Architects, Support and R&D on scoped engagements.
You will:
- Help our customers achieve real business outcomes through the use of AI
- Serve as the primary lead on new customer deployments including hands on guidance for the setup of SSO and connectors
- Own the end-to-end delivery from kickoff to go-live thru renewal, ensuring clarity on expectations for all stakeholders timeline, andServices budget.
- Create and execute on joint success plans that drive additional adoption, deepen engagement, and result in measurable business value. Overall program management.
- Develop, communicate, and execute tailored project plans; facilitate cross-functional collaboration across delivery, operations, and technical teams.
- Provide a blend of technical guidance and strategic partnership, acting as escalation manager when necessary.
- Monitor and report on deployment progress, customer adoption, and satisfaction metrics.
- Proactively identify risks or blockers and drive resolution—escalating internally when appropriate.
- Guide and document improvements for onboarding processes, playbooks, and best practices.
- Contribute to continuous process and product improvements by providing actionable feedback and participating in internal initiatives
About you:
- 3-5 years of experience in technical deployment, implementation management, or technical account management of SaaS products at Enterprise customers.
- Strong understanding of software development life cycles and methodologies, including Agile and DevOps practices.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and related services.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on troubleshooting technical issues as well as building consensus around outcomes and success measures.
- Strong organizational, project management, and communication abilities.
- Proven experience serving enterprise clients in both strategic, consultative and tactical, hands-on roles.
- Experience with process documentation, playbooks, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Solutions-oriented mindset; trusted advisor with capability to own escalations.
- Capable of handling ambiguity and thriving in a fast-paced environment.
- Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit and cross-functional environment - being a team player and willing to take on whatever is most impactful for the company is a must
- Technical configuration and troubleshooting
- A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot, and take ownership of both small tasks and large features
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration between customers and technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Curiosity and tenacity
- Note: This role with require you to work in EMEA/US East hours.
Location:
- This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Bangalore office)
Compensation & Benefits:
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
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AI-First Mindset at Glean:
At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required.
Glean is a Work AI platform designed to help organizations optimize their operations through intelligent search and AI-driven capabilities. By offering a scalable and secure infrastructure, Glean empowers businesses across various industries to harness the full potential of AI while maintaining control and customization.