About the Role
Title: Sr. Delivery Manager – Conversational AI
Location: Minnesota United States
Job Description:
Genesys empowers organizations of all sizes to improve loyalty and business outcomes by creating the best experiences for their customers and employees. Through Genesys Cloud, the AI-powered Experience Orchestration platform, organizations can accelerate growth by delivering empathetic, personalized experiences at scale to drive customer loyalty, workforce engagement, efficiency and operational improvements.
We employ more than 6,000 people across the globe who embrace empathy and cultivate collaboration to succeed. And, while we offer great benefits and perks like larger tech companies, our employees have the independence to make a larger impact on the company and take ownership of their work. Join the team and create the future of customer experience together.
Location: Remote, Work From Home (WFH), North America
Role Summary:
Senior Delivery Managers in Professional Services at Genesys are responsible for leading and managing the day-to-day operations and technical oversight for a team of consultants providing design and software implementation services to our customers. This Delivery Manager will be aligned to the field of Conversational technologies. To be successful you must demonstrate technical and operational experience in most of the following areas:
Speech Technology Consulting Services –
- Natural Language Understanding
- Speech Recognition
- Virtual Assistants and Chat Bots
- Industry technologies incorporating speech and language recognition: Google (Dialogflow), Amazon (Lex), IBM (Watson), Omelia, Microsoft (LUIS), Nuance (Mix), etc.
Conversational Systems Engineering and Architecture –
- User Interface
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Conversational Design
- Analytics
This is a results-driven position, driving growth in a diverse Professional Services organization, supporting timely and quality services delivery and accountable for Services Revenue, Services Gross Profit, and Customer Satisfaction. The successful candidate will be responsible for recruiting, developing, and retaining talent and must integrate well in a team culture and will directly engage with members of the sales team, leaders in other departments, leaders of business units in other geographies, as well as with customers, and prospects. A key aspect will be to take a leadership participation role with our client customers to ensure the success project delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of Professional Services consultants in NA focused on delivering Conversational AI consulting and implementation services to Genesys customers and partners for the Genesys Cloud CX platform.
- Participate in and support presales efforts, leading SS&AI interactions with customers and sales.
- Engage with client leadership, and Genesys project team as the delivery stakeholder ensuring customer project success.
- Lead technical discussions with customers during both presales and project delivery. Help scope and provide effort estimates for projects.
- Be capable of leading and performing at an individual contributor level when dealing with project, product and customer escalations as warranted.
- Ensure appropriate staffing levels are maintained and the team receives continued training and development.
- Oversee the team quote to deal process with prospect interactions, estimation delegation, backlog, and quote/Statement of Work reviews.
- Evangelize service capabilities, new technologies and offerings, particularly in AI, Generative AI, Voice, and Chat bots, to drive new business opportunities.
Qualifications:
- 7-10 plus years of contact center technology expertise and team leadership experience in Professional Services delivering complex IVR and bot solutions.
- Hands on experience in engineering complex applications leveraging APIs, JSON and/or JavaScript. Examples of work we’re looking for include bot development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop software engineering teams.
- Good working knowledge of the Genesys products and solutions across the Genesys Cloud CX Product Line is a big plus.
- Working experience delivering projects using Agile methodology.
- Ability to travel up to 20% (customer need basis).