Director, Professional Services Consulting

Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the Implementation strategy in alignment with UKG's broader business objectives, ensuring consistent, high-quality customer outcomes and strong customer satisfaction scores. Enterprise Partnership: Build trusted relationships across executive leadership to champion a unified delivery vision and accelerate organizational performance. Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing global implementation organization, cultivating a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and customer-centricity. Delivery Excellence: Ensure the consistent delivery of world-class implementations for UKG HCM and WFM SaaS solutions, meeting or exceeding key performance indicators (KPIs) and customer satisfaction (OSAT) targets. Customer Success & Retention: Establish and evolve customer success programs while building strong executive relationships with key customers to drive satisfaction, retention, and long-term value realization. Operational Innovation: Drive continuous improvement across implementation methodologies, processes, tools, and leverage AI technologies to increase efficiency, quality, and the overall customer experience. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Enablement, and Support to ensure a seamless end-to-end customer journey and successful product adoption. Professional Services Oversight: Lead the full lifecycle of Professional Services—including implementation, enablement, consulting, and transition to support—while applying industry best practices to streamline delivery and improve predictability. Resource & Financial Optimization: Optimize global resource utilization, manage budgets, and ensure scalable operations that balance growth, cost effectiveness, and productivity. Governance & Compliance: Ensure adherence to corporate standards and regional compliance requirements, including data privacy and security, labor regulations, and risk mitigation controls to protect operational continuity and data integrity. 7+ years of senior leadership experience in SaaS software delivery and enterprise services. Strong understanding of Human Capital Management (HCM) and Workforce Management (WFM) solutions; familiarity/experience with UKG WFM, Ready and Pro are a plus. Experience supporting and transforming Enterprise, SMB and Mid-Market customer segments to scale. Demonstrated success building and sustaining partnerships with global teams and implementation Partners. Exceptional leadership, communication, and influence skills, with the ability to inspire teams and align stakeholders. Deep experience operating in customer-centric delivery models with a strong focus on service excellence. Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, using data to drive insight and solution-based decision-making. Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving, and growth-oriented environment. Innovative, entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward action and continuous improvement. High level of cultural awareness and effectiveness, with experience leading teams and serving customers across North America, EMEA, and APAC. Willingness and ability to travel globally and work flexibly across time zones as required. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field; Master's degree preferred. LIREMOTE