Director, Strategic Services

Company: WorkBoard
Location: Austin
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

WorkBoard's--mission is to help companies and the people in them achieve their best results. We--pioneered the Enterprise Results Management--solution--category--so--leaders--can--communicate--strategy and align efforts--well in a faster changing world,--and--so--team members are energized by the purpose--and impact--of their work.--Our customers--drive faster growth and--competitive advantage--because they have--higher--alignment,--real-time transparency, and sharper focus on the results that matter. Companies like--Cisco,--Microsoft,--Juniper,--Workday, 3M,--Zuora,--Anthem, Humana,--and many others--use--WorkBoard's--platform, expert services, and professional certification programs to achieve their ambitious vision.

WorkBoard--has built a clear lead in the space - it is the size of all the other OKR app providers combined, in large part because its founders and team members--are experienced company builders focused on true, differentiated value for our customers.--WorkBoard--is backed by top-tier venture investors including--Andreessen Horowitz, GGV Capital, Workday Ventures, and Microsoft's M12--fund. THE OPPORTUNITY At WorkBoard we help customers achieve their sustainable growth advantage by making alignment and accountability remarkably easy! The direct WorkBoard buyer is typically the CEO or GM of a business unit and the application is deployed to all employees under the P&L owner - giving the company a very large market opportunity. As Director, Strategic Services,-- you will be consulting clients on accelerating their company's growth plans, and apply our solution to make alignment and accountability remarkably easy, so they can achieve great results. This role presents a rare opportunity to see first-hand and influence how companies and teams formulate their strategic objectives, operationalize them to drive results, and make a tangible impact on employee engagement. You'll form strategic advisor relationships with CEOs, CXOs and GMs and coach their team to manage, communicate and operationalize their results. You'll play a pivotal role in making strategic priorities relevant and meaningful at every level of the organization. Your results expertise will enable our customers to increase the business results they realize from the platform over time.-- COMING IN

• Bring your MBA and at a minimum of 10 years of overall work experience, with at least 6 years of experience at a strategy firm such as McKinsey, Bain, BCG, or a consulting organization like Slalom, Accenture, or Deloitte.
• You have worked either in, or as a consultant for, a high-growth B2B SaaS company where you have worked with business executives and have an arsenal of successful tactics for connecting business value to technology!--
• You are genuine, warm, positive, engaging, and empathetic.--
• You are business savvy, with strong interest and experience in the areas of strategy development and operational excellence.-- You're a self-starter with strong ownership skills, willing to go above and beyond the job description You'll be skilled and super effective at:
  • Leading and facilitating executive conversations and working sessions.
  • Deck creation, design, and graphical representation of complex concepts for executive level presentations
  • Leveraging your natural curiosity to quickly understand a client's business while demonstrating tact and poise under pressure
  • Delivering exceptional customer experience and value to customers demonstrated by successfully closing contract renewals and partnering with sales to identify and close expansion sales opportunities
  • Communicating & listening with ability to credibly and confidently engage executives
  • Understanding complex, matrix organizations WITHIN ONE MONTH, YOU'LL:
    • Attend new-hire immersion training and be certified as a Workboard OKR Coach and app expert to build a deep understanding of our buyer, their pain points, our methodology and how we work as a team
    • Deep-dive with Growth, Sales, and Product Management teams to learn more about our solution, go to market and roadmap and the partnership with the Services team
    • Meet with 5 enthusiastic WorkBoard customers and shadow 8 OKR Working sessions to understand senior leadership challenges and how we help
    • Know your client teams and the objectives and key results they are looking to achieve in the quarter
    • Be a daily user of WorkBoard and SFDC to help drive rocket ship growth
    • Dazzle a WorkBoard expert with your enthusiastic demo
    • Confidently articulate the value, benefits and relevance of our powerful solution easily and effectively
    • Have action plans in place to achieve the Key Results for your business WITHIN THREE MONTHS, YOU'LL:
      • Coach executive teams in setting high integrity objectives and key results by facilitating 35+ OKR Workshops
      • Be a valued partner by helping more than 40 executives to use WorkBoard's Running Biz Reviews and Meetings in order to run their business for results, on a weekly basis
      • Lead 10 outcome focused Steering Committees
      • Spend a great deal of time with our amazing customers - 85%, with travel likely
      • Participate twice, as a speaker or core-contributor at a WorkBoard Coach Community meet-up
      • Have successfully secured 2 commitments to be a customer reference.
      • Successfully closed renewals and identified 3 opportunities for expansion ARR WITHIN SIX MONTHS, YOU'LL:
        • Be a facilitator extraordinaire across your accounts, by conducting over 90 workshops helping teams create their strategies and high integrity OKRs
        • Have two dozen executive and chief of staff customer relationships that you can tap for insights, references, case studies and thought partnership any time to express the business value WorkBoard is helping them drive for their company
        • Know your customers are continually getting value by creating a successful track-record of closing renewals and securing expansion and up-sell opportunities
        • Team up with another WoBo all star and co-lead the OKR Coach Certification Program THE TEAM You will be joining one of the leading customer success teams ever created! Currently we are a small and mighty team with big objectives for our customers and our business. We are passionate about creating the best team now , in order to scale for the future. Our definition of working with customers extends to working with 100s (if not 1000s) of people to support their work. This excites us and fuels innovation for the WorkBoard application and our Strategic Services Program! We are a passionate no-ego bunch that "falls in love" with our customers and is fully dedicated to ensure their success. OUR VALUES - WE LIVE BY THE 4 H'S Humble experts - Hungry for the opportunity - Intellectually honest - Operating as one happy team
          • Paid holidays
          • Health insurance
          • 401K with employer matching
          • Quarterly All-Hands Meetings
          • And much more! THE WORKBOARD STORY WorkBoard provides a powerful, modern results platform to help companies achieve their growth plans. Unlike most enterprise software, our solution is important to every employee, so we strive to set the high bar for capabilities that delight and enable everyone to be more successful at work. WorkBoard is strategic to companies and personally relevant to the people that work in them. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace committed to building a team culture that celebrates learning, diversity and inclusion. If you're hungry to grow your skills while growing a company, your sense of urgency matches the size of our market opportunity, and you value and enable team mates' contributions, then come join us! Legal Name First (if different than above):
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