Service Delivery Manager, Professional Services
Proofpoint
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About the role
Role Overview
The Service Delivery Manager (Professional Services) leads end-to-end service delivery execution for an assigned sales region, ensuring customer outcomes through high-quality, consistent delivery. This is a highly visible, customer-facing role partnering closely with Sales, Customer Success, and cross-functional stakeholders in a matrixed, shared resource environment.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage Professional Services delivery execution for a sales region, aligned to customer requirements and internal commitments
- Serve as primary coordinator for Professional Services engagements, ensuring quality and successful outcomes
- Coordinate delivery across teams, partners, and internal stakeholders in a matrixed organization
- Resolve complex delivery challenges using structure, clarity, and cross-functional alignment
- Coordinate project delivery with shared-resource planning, partnering with peer delivery leaders and functional managers for utilization and staffing
- Monitor workloads, delivery coverage, and skill alignment; escalate risks and constraints as needed
- Track and report KPIs for delivery effectiveness, quality, and customer satisfaction
- Identify risks/inefficiencies and propose improvements; drive corrective actions
- Apply and reinforce delivery frameworks, best practices, and technical standards for predictable outcomes
- Support pre-sales activities, deployment planning, and customer onboarding with Sales/Account Management
- Engage customer stakeholders to support satisfaction, retention, and adoption
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to evolve technical/digital delivery capabilities
- Participate in continuous improvement (delivery reviews, lessons learned, corrective actions)
- Promote accountability, collaboration, and knowledge sharing within Professional Services
Requirements
- 5+ years delivering technical or Professional Services engagements with increasing responsibility
- Experience working effectively in a matrixed, shared resource environment
Nice-to-haves
- (Not specified in the provided excerpt.)
About Proofpoint
Proofpoint is a global cybersecurity company focused on protecting people, data, and AI agents as they connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. Its solutions help organizations stop threats, prevent data loss, and build resilience in digital and AI workflows.
Scraped 7/30/2026