At LearnUpon, we’re seeking a Manager, Implementation to join our team in Philadelphia or Salt Lake.
LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.
With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Belgrade, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Sydney, we are a global team with lots of diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do.
Our culture fosters an open, collaborative and supportive environment where our accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. We strive to live by our values, act like owners, lead with curiosity and deliver quality for our customers. We’re proud of our success and we’re humble and hungry to achieve more.
We’re growing our Implementation team to keep pace as more customers sign on. We need to hire an extraordinary leader with a track record of delivering outstanding customer onboarding / implementation outcomes, attracting talent, and developing and motivating a team of fantastic Implementation Consultants (ICs).
By championing simple, learner-centric experiences and results-focused support, we make it easy for businesses to deliver learning that impacts what matters: performance, retention, and growth. LearnUpon Implementation works directly with new customers to understand the results they’re seeking and help them configure the platform as part of a solution that will help deliver them.
What will I be doing?
Manage and mentor a growing team of Implementation Consultants (ICs)
- Manage - Lead your ICs’ day-to-day work, helping them:
- Progress their implementation projects toward successful and timely launches
- Respond to customer inquiries and requests quickly, accurately, and completely
- Focus every interaction with customers on the results they need from LearnUpon and how we can help deliver them
- Provide a LearnUpon customer experience consistent with our values
- Develop - Train your ICs on:
- Best practices and processes of results-oriented customer implementation; especially discovering and documenting customer objectives, drivers, and solutions
- Product knowledge
- Written and verbal communication
- Tools and systems
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Mentor - Help your ICs grow their careers by:
- Exploring their professional goals and ambitions
- Defining a personal career path
- Pursuing skills and knowledge aligned with their career path
- Understanding their performance and opportunities for improvement
- Customer Training and content creation:
- Lead, mentor and project plan around creating customer training content for the LearnUpon University
- Keeping team accountable for new content creation, maintaining high quality and deliverables
- Creating some content for the LearnUpon University yourself
Partner with other Implementation managers and your Director to run an outstanding operation
- Track your team’s performance against key metrics that highlight opportunities to improve; act on metrics-driven insights
- Coordinate and routinely execute smooth transitions of customers from Sales into Implementation, timely customer launches, and seamless handoffs from Implementation to Success
- Serve as an escalation point between customers and internal teams (Support, Success, Sales, Product) to explain, properly prioritize, and resolve important issues
Serve as an exemplary leader and implementation practitioner
- Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge of LearnUpon’s product, market position, and value proposition
- Drive your team toward outstanding implementation outcomes as measured by time to launch, time to value, one- and two-year retention half-life, and other relevant metrics
- Lead with energy, clarity, and empathy
- Build and follow a personal career path that includes continuous learning
What skills do I need?
- Ability to motivate & lead your team with relentless positivity in a fast-paced, changing environment
- At least one year experience leading a software implementation team supporting a SaaS product (or comparable), or at least three years as a high-performing Implementation Consultant (IC)
- Confidence and skill in liaising with prospects and customers at an Executive level about escalated issues
- Strong drive for results, while retaining a focus on consistently delivering a great customer experience
- Get-it-done mindset: not afraid to roll up your sleeves, getting into the data and analysing the business to identify areas of improvement
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, attention to detail, and the skill of dealing with ambiguity
- Proficiency using Asana or a similar project-management tool
- Creative and analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills
- Experience in content creation for the purpose of team enablement, collateral and the customer university
- Experience working with and leading a team across multiple time zones
- Experience with technical configuration and best practise, dealing with integrations of learning management tools (or similar) into organizational tech stacks through API, webhooks or out-of-the-box integrations
Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!
Not required but considered a plus
- Experience of working in the learning space (e-learning, edtech, or learning management)
Why work with us?
- Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular team events
- Excellent career progression - take LearnUpon where you think it can go
- Structured learning environment
- Competitive salary and company ESOP
- Private health insurance
- 401k
- 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off
- Flexible Working Arrangements
What is the Hiring Process?
Applicants for the position can expect the following hiring process:
- Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a 30-minute call
- Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews
- Finally, candidates will have a short interview with Leadership
- Successful candidates will be contacted with an offer to join our team
LearnUpon is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, membership of the Traveller community, or any other legally protected status.
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