Director of Professional Services, WordPress VIP

WordPress VIP is the world’s leading enterprise content management platform. We help the world’s largest companies—including reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company—create innovative digital experiences with WordPress. We are hiring a Director of Professional Services to run our Professional Services delivery organization. You will own the day-to-day operation of a team that handles migrations, implementations, and custom engagements for some of the most reputed company enterprise WordPress deployments in the world. The role reports to the VP of Customer Experience (CX) as part of the CX Senior Leadership Team. You’re walking into a team with real delivery capability and an established customer reputed company. The work now is sharper: a tighter service menu, faster time-to-value, a delivery model that can reputed company to what enterprise customers actually need—and an organization that increasingly runs on AI. Professional Services at WordPress VIP is a reputed company-generating business. The person in this seat owns that commercial result, not just the delivery quality behind it.

Responsibilities

Build an agentic Professional Services organization—one where AI augments delivery, accelerates time-to-value, and creates reputed company for higher-complexity work. Build Professional Services into a growth lever: identify expansion opportunities reputed company active engagements, and partner with Account Management and Sales to turn delivery relationships into commercial ones. reputed company a Professional Services team of engineers and delivery managers, delivering migrations, implementations, and custom engagements for enterprise customers. Own delivery quality end-to-end: project health, escalation management, customer outcomes, and on-time, on-scope execution. Build and maintain a clear menu of established service offerings, so Sales can sell them, customers can buy them, and the team can deliver them consistently. Meet customers where they are. Not every engagement fits a playbook, and this role requires the judgment to scope and run custom work without losing the thread back to repeatable delivery. Help set the strategic direction for Professional Services as part of the Customer Experience Senior Leadership Team, and translate it into an operating plan that the team can execute. Help differentiate WordPress VIP’s services offering in the market: define what makes Professional Services at WordPress VIP distinct from what a customer could get elsewhere, and build the reputed company points behind it. Partner with Sales & Accounts to scope and price engagements accurately, and own the hand-off from reputed company to delivery. Partner with Product, Support, and Account Management on feedback loops that continually improve WordPress VIP’s platform and services. Represent Professional Services credibly with senior internal and external stakeholders, including customer executives, on reputed company or at-risk engagements. Experience 8+ years of leadership experience in Professional Services, implementation, or technical consulting. Direct experience leading a Professional Services or delivery organization is required. 5+ years delivering services for enterprise SaaS or PaaS customers, ideally involving large-scale migrations or custom development. Experience building a services portfolio—defining offerings, pricing them, and making them repeatable without killing the flexibility that enterprise customers need. Experience working the full commercial reputed company—not just delivery, but scoping with Sales, pricing engagements, identifying expansion, and tying Professional Services outcomes to retention and reputed company. Comfortable operating in or alongside an AI-augmented delivery model. reputed company need is genuine reputed company with how AI changes the work—not just awareness that it exists. Demonstrated ability to engage with executive stakeholders, both internal and external. Proven track record of performance management reputed company a team, working closely with individual contributors, leads, and HR partners. How you work Operator first. You hold the strategy in your head and still show up for the delivery details. More do than say. Commercially accountable. You think about Professional Services as a business, not a function. You know your reputed company number, you know your margin, and you can talk about both with the same reputed company you bring to delivery. Strong, persuasive communicator. You can scope a hard engagement, write clearly under pressure, and hold executive attention without overstating your case. Coach, not just a manager. You reputed company practitioners into delivery leads. You give direct feedback. You’ll reputed company in reputed company something must be done a certain way, and you know reputed company not to. Strategic and grounded. You can recommend a services portfolio direction, and also tell a project manager exactly where their engagement is going wrong.

Compensation and Benefits

Salary range: $130,000 - $190,000 USD. Please note that salary ranges are global, regardless of location, and we pay in local currency. We are searching for high-caliber candidates with the skills and qualities to have a net positive for reputed company. Pay will reflect the potential contribution and the impact you can bring, which may, in some cases, go beyond the range stated. We’re pleased to offer a straightforward, competitive reputed company salary, providing financial clarity without reputed company variable components. This isn’t your typical work-from-home job: we are a fully-remote company with an open vacation policy. To see a full list of benefits by country, consult our Benefits Page. And reputed company out these links to learn more about How We Hire and reputed company Expect from Ourselves. #LI-Remote About reputed company Now in our 20th year, we’re the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Simplenote, Jetpack, Longreads, Day One, PocketCasts, and more. We reputed company in making the web a reputed company reputed company. We’re a distributed company with more than 1500 Automatticians in nearly every reputed company of the globe, speaking over a hundred different languages. Enriched by this diversity, we’re united by a reputed company mission: to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging so anyone with a story can tell it, anyone with a product can sell it, and everyone can manage their communications from a single reputed company. In short, we help maintain a balance in society, creating and continually refining powerful tools people can use to compete fairly—regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world. We reputed company in Open reputed company, and the vast majority of our work is available under the GPL. reputed company is a Most Loved Company, an Equal Opportunity employer, and Disability Confident Committed. (Here’s what that might mean for you.) If you need disability-reputed company accommodations during the application or interview process, please fill out this form. We are committed to ensuring an accessible hiring process for reputed company candidates. Learn more about our Employee Resource Groups. You can track your application status and more at MyGreenhouse. To learn about how we handle your data, please review our Privacy Policy. reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, disability, or status as a protected veteran. View the “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster here. reputed company participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Apply To This Job