[Hiring] Director of Delivery Management @Zencore

Role Description

The Director of Delivery Management will own delivery outcomes across a portfolio of Google Cloud engagements. You will personally run one or two strategic programs. You will hire, develop, and lead the engagement management team. Clients will know you as the delivery executive who calls them before something becomes a problem.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading complex technology programs, with 5+ years in professional services or systems integration.
• Deep experience delivering cloud, data, and AI engagements, including migrations, data platform builds, and AI programs.
• Proven ownership of portfolio performance: margin, forecasting accuracy, utilization, and client health across concurrent engagements.
• People management experience, including hiring and developing client-facing delivery leaders.
• Pre-sales credibility: shaping solutions, presenting delivery approach, writing SOWs and change orders.
• Executive presence with both client sponsors and engineers.
• Experience leading remote, multi-geo teams.

Requirements

• Google Cloud experience: time at Google, a Google Cloud partner, or hands-on delivery of Google Cloud workloads.
• Google Cloud certifications (Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Own delivery, governance, and successful execution across a portfolio of cloud, data, infrastructure, application development, and AI engagements.
• Manage portfolio health and financial performance, including risk mitigation, budget, margin, forecasting, utilization, and change control.
• Lead teams and strategic client engagements to deliver measurable business outcomes and ensure client success beyond the scope of the SOW.
• Serve as executive delivery sponsor for key accounts, building trusted relationships with client executives and acting as the escalation point above the day-to-day team.
• Work side by side with Google Cloud account teams and partner engineering to align on joint delivery and expansion.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing delivery management team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development while maintaining Zencore's delivery standards.
• Oversee global staffing, resource planning, and engagement leadership across the US, EMEA, and LATAM to ensure successful client delivery and business outcomes.
• Own and continuously improve Zencore's delivery model, including methodology, governance, estimation, tooling, quality standards, and AI-enabled best practices.
• Partner with executive leadership to develop scalable delivery processes, playbooks, and operating models that support business growth.

Benefits

• We are professionals you can trust.
• Our people have the extensive experience to get the job done.
• We share unbiased opinions and are comfortable with the hard truths.
• We are the missing link, connecting our customers to Google.
• We remove uncertainty and risk by clearly outlining the process of cloud migration.
• We accelerate timelines and do not dwell on challenges.
• We show empathy; our customers believe in us because we can relate to their complexities.

How to succeed at Zencore?

• First rule at Zencore - Be Kind.
• Own the process - own your customer’s success by proactive practices.
• Work hard to reach the destination, but make sure to enjoy the journey.
• Champion a consistent collaborative culture.
• Be receptive to any type of feedback.
• Challenge the status quo.