Director, Strategic Services (London)

Workboard
London, United Kingdom
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for candidates with consulting or enterprise strategy experience who excel at executive-level engagement and value-driven coaching, and who are based in London and prefer remote work arrangements.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with consulting or enterprise strategy experience who excel at executive-level engagement and value-driven coaching
    — “experience at a strategy firm such as McKinsey, Bain, BCG, or a management consulting firm like PwC, Accenture, Deloitte, or Slalom”
  • Individuals who can translate complex concepts into visually compelling executive presentations
    — “Deck creation, design, and graphical representation of complex concepts for executive-level presentations”
  • Candidates who have led large-scale implementation or consulting projects in SaaS or strategy execution
    — “Proven experience leading enterprise-level implementation or consulting engagements, ideally in SaaS or strategy execution domains”

Things to consider

  • Remote work is preferred despite being based in London, indicating a need for self-direction and autonomy
    — “Remote — London-based candidates preferred”
  • The role demands deep engagement with C-Level executives and their teams, which may require frequent communication and high adaptability
    — “form strategic advisor relationships with C-Level Executives, and coach their teams”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize experience in guiding large enterprises through strategic alignment and operating model optimization
    — “aligning execution with long-range and short-range goals through scalable, data-driven operating models”
  • Highlight proven success in connecting business value to technology in your resume and interviews
    — “Engaging various techniques to deepen customer value over time”
  • Demonstrate your ability to influence and engage at all levels of an organization, especially senior leadership
    — “ability to influence at all levels of an organization”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • form strategic advisor relationships with C-Level Executives
  • coach their teams to define, communicate, and operationalize their results achievement
Typical background
minimum of 10 years of work experienceexperience in strategy development, strategy deployment, and operating model optimization

Skills & requirements

Required

Strategy ExecutionOperationalizing StrategyCoaching TeamsAligning Execution With Long-range And Short-range Goals

Preferred

Experience At A Strategy Firm Such As Mckinsey, Bain, BCG, Or A Management Consulting Firm Like Pwc, Accenture, Deloitte, Or Slalom

Stack & domain

Strategy ExecutionOperational ModelsAILeadershipCommunicationTeamworkEnterpriseTechnologyFinancial ServicesHealthcare

About the role

Original posting from Workboard via Greenhouse

Director, Strategic Services  – WorkBoardAI

Remote — London-based candidates preferred

About WorkBoard 

WorkBoard is the pioneer in AI-driven strategy execution solutions, empowering enterprises to align, measure, and achieve their most important outcomes. With our platform, organizations can operationalize strategy in real time, foster alignment across teams, and accelerate growth. Our customers include some of the world’s most innovative companies across technology, financial services, healthcare, and more. 

We’re backed by top-tier investors and led by a diverse, mission-driven team that’s passionate about redefining how organizations execute strategy at scale. At WorkBoard, you’ll have the opportunity to join a fast-growing, category-defining company where your work directly impacts how leaders shape the future. 

The Opportunity 

The direct WorkBoard buyer is typically the CEO or GM of a business unit, and our platform is deployed to all employees under the P&L owner – giving the company an exceptionally large market opportunity.   

As the Director of Strategic Services, 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 and business outcomes.  You will form strategic advisor relationships with C-Level Executives, and coach their teams to define, communicate, and operationalize their results achievement.  

You will play a pivotal role in making strategic priorities relevant and meaningful at every level of the organization, and being a trusted advisor from pre to post sales. Your results expertise will enable our customers to increase the business results they realize from the WorkBoard platform over time.  

The Role 

As the Director of Strategic Services, you will provide prospective and new customers with expert advice on how to better execute strategy and maximize performance, drive an excellent platform launch and introduction process and serve as an active guide in the early stages of a customer's journey to define and achieve measurable value that increases over time.   

You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and their teams, aligning execution with long-range and short-range goals through scalable, data-driven operating models and high-impact enablement.  

What we're looking for: 

You are business-savvy and draw on your combination of real-world experience and education to work seamlessly and fluently with leaders across a wide range of functional disciplines at large enterprises.    

You are a self-starter with strong ownership skills, willing to support many customer accounts, deploying impactful strategies to accelerate our clients’ and WorkBoard’s growth.   

You have a strong interest and experience in strategy development, strategy deployment, and operating model optimization.    

A minimum of 10 years of work experience and ideally, experience at a strategy firm such as McKinsey, Bain, BCG, or a management consulting firm like PwC, Accenture, Deloitte, or Slalom.      

A plus if you have worked for a high-growth B2B SaaS company.    

You have experience in both strategy execution and strategic portfolio management. 

You have an arsenal of successful tactics for connecting business value to technology.  You are genuine, warm, positive, engaging, and empathetic.    

Proven experience leading enterprise-level implementation or consulting engagements, ideally in SaaS or strategy execution domains.  

Exceptional communication and storytelling skills; ability to influence at all levels of an organization.  

Passion for helping organizations achieve their best possible results.  

You'll be skilled and super effective at: 

Leading 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 and new business opportunities   

Communicating & listening with the ability to credibly and confidently engage executives   

Understanding complex, matrix organizations and navigating them effectively to create value for both our clients and the company   

Mapping and understanding existing strategy execution and portfolio management processes and partner with clients on a path forward 

Engaging various techniques to deepen customer value over time 

WITHIN ONE MONTH, YOU'LL:   

Build a deep understanding of our buyer, their pain points, our methodology and how we work as a team   

Deep-dive with Customer Success, 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 5 prospective customers 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 and the next year  

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:   

Guide 15+ clients in setting and aligning an ROI based value journey   

Be a valued partner by helping more than 40 leaders use WorkBoard’s  Agents, Scorecards, Biz Reviews and Meetings in order to run their business for results, on a weekly basis   

Spend a great deal of time with our amazing customers both in person and virtually   

Lead white glove enablement sessions with 20 senior leaders  

Have successfully secured 2 commitments to be a customer reference.   

Successfully partner with Customer Success to close renewals and identify 3 opportunities for expansion revenue   

WITHIN SIX MONTHS, YOU'LL:   

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, securing expansion and up-sell opportunities, and closing services revenue.  

THE TEAM    

You will be joining a matrixed team focused on igniting and delivering value quickly to our buyers.  We are in growth mode, and we are a passionate no-ego bunch that “falls in love” with our customers and is fully dedicated to ensuring their success.       

OUR VALUES - WE LIVE BY THE 4 H’S   

Humble experts ~ Hungry  for the opportunity ~ Intellectually honest ~ Operating as one happy team   

A FEW OF OUR AWESOME BENEFITS   

Flexible PTO & sick days   

Paid holidays   

Health insurance   

401K with employer matching   

Quarterly Bonuses based on company performance   

Bi-weekly All-Hands Meetings   

And much more!   

The UK salary range for this full-time position is £110-130k OTE annual salary. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and geographic location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. 

Source: Workboard careers (Greenhouse)

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