Senior Professional Services Consultant, West - Outreach

Job Title: Senior Professional Services Consultant, West
Job Location: Chicago, IL
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/outreach/a3bb6ff1-06b8-470e-9b0d-552eab711e02
Job Description: About Outreach

Outreach, founded in 2014, is the only complete AI Revenue Workflow Platform that helps sales leaders benefit from connected account visibility, performance insights, and higher forecasting accuracy across every GTM team. Outreach infuses agentic AI to power 100s of use cases across sales motions. From new logo prospecting to renewal and expansion, Outreach AI automates workflows and frees sellers to focus on more strategic conversations and actions. Global organizations use Outreach to power their revenue teams, including SAP, Siemens, Snowflake, ZoomInfo, and Verizon to name a few. To learn more, please visit www.outreach.io.

About the Team
The Professional Services team is the main point of contact with Outreach customers after a sale is complete. They are made up of leading experts on Sales Engagement, Conversational Intelligence, and Forecasting who bring innovation to implementation each and every day. As a vital part of our customer success ecosystem, the professional services team ensures that a customer’s initial onboarding and implementation are exceptional. They will educate our customers on the benefits and features of our core product, inspire their organization, and help them immediately start exceeding their KPIs.

About the Role
As a Sr. Professional Services Consultant, you are a trusted advisor to customers who have just purchased an Outreach project and will ensure that their initial onboarding and services experience are exceptional. You will provide strategic insight to customers throughout the implementation and partner with them to provide overall platform best practices, influence their GTM strategy, technical configuration, change management methods, and how best to engage their teams to drive adoption. You will work with multiple teams within Outreach to ensure that a customer’s journey is well documented, that handoffs between teams are seamless, and that customer feedback is captured (Sales, Presales, Customer Success, Education, Support, Product, Engineering). This role will report to the Consulting Practice Manager and will play a pivotal role in Outreach’s continued success as we continue to scale.

Location: Location: We’re looking to hire this person hybrid in Seattle, or remote in PST/CST (Chicago Preferred).
Your Daily Adventures Will Include
Work as the initial main point of contact with Outreach customers after a sale is complete
Provide an exceptional implementation experience to all customers and stakeholders, ensuring customer teams are up and running on time
Partnering with customers to provide overall platform best practices, influence their GTM strategy, technical configuration, change management methods, and how best to engage their teams to drive adoption
Work with existing customers that purchase additional services post-launch, in areas such as managed services, optimizations, technical audits, and expansions
Identify new opportunities for additional services and direct customers to the appropriate parties to engage in the scoping process
Relentless drive to understand our customers and key stakeholders, in addition to being solution oriented when addressing their pain points
Ensure all customer information is well documented and managed, allowing for flawless handoff between teams and resources
Demonstrate project management excellence including the ability to keep stakeholders on track, stay within budget and margin, manage risks, ensure milestones are met on time, and secure customer sign off at project completion
Help ensure successful adoption of the platform during and post go-live
Take ownership of the post launch handoff of customers to our customer success team
Influence all levels of leadership ranging from analysts, management and executive level personnel
Work with support, product and engineering teams to ensure customer feedback is captured and realized
Develop proficiency in product capabilities and sales process best practices, including a deep technical knowledge of the product
Contribute to defining and refining initiatives, methodologies, assets, and programs within the Professional Services team
Assess problems and roadblocks, driving toward resolution with minimal assistance
Our Vision of You
Experienced Professional Services Professional - You will have 5-7 years of experience in professional services, consulting, implementation, or related field (ie. customer success) acting as a strategic advisor to customers ranging from SMB to Enterprise, ideally in a SaaS environment.
Consultant & Trusted Advisor - You have a proven track record of building trust and developing client relationships while ensuring customer satisfaction through implementation excellence including inspiring, education/ training, driving adoption, consultative stakeholder management, and comfort with change management
Project Manager - You drive initiatives with clear expectations, manage risk, and identify and adhere to project timelines
Proactive & Self Driven -You are a proven self-starter and able to come up to speed on complex, difficult concepts with minimal assistance. A plus if you have a history of improving processes, methodologies, programs, or frameworks!
Strategic Problem Solver -You have the ability to break down ambiguous problems into concrete, manageable components and think through optimal solutions
Technical Aptitude - You have the ability to understand deep technical aspects of a product and educate others using simplified explanations with a track record of learning new tools and processes in a fast-paced environment