Senior Director, Professional Services

About the role

Kantata is seeking a Senior Director, Professional Services to lead delivery across our North America Enterprise segment. This is a high-visibility role for an experienced services leader who thrives at the intersection of sales, delivery, and customer success.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as the North America Enterprise segment leader for Kantata Professional Services, owning delivery outcomes and team performance across the region.
• Represent Professional Services as part of the PS leadership team, providing input on organizational direction, surfacing what's working and what isn't, and shaping product and methodology decisions.
• Partner closely with sales and presales teams to ensure the right solution is being proposed to customers — and that the delivery organization is prepared to deliver it successfully.
• Serve as the delivery director on all projects within the segment, personally ensuring customer success, adoption, and business results are delivered.
• Manage a team of consultants focused on delivery, providing coaching, quality oversight, and career development.
• Partner closely with Customer Success and Support teams to ensure a smooth, well-documented handover as customers move from implementation into ongoing adoption.
• Help enable delivery partners across the segment and provide oversight of their implementations, ensuring they meet the same quality bar as engagements delivered internally.
• Embrace AI technologies to deliver faster, smarter, and with higher productivity — modeling and encouraging practical AI adoption across the delivery team.

What You Bring to this Role

• 10+ years of experience in professional services or implementation leadership within the software or technology industry, including experience managing consulting teams.
• A track record of serving as delivery director or engagement lead on complex, enterprise or mid-market software implementations.
• Experience partnering with sales and presales teams during the deal cycle to validate solution scope and delivery feasibility.
• Deep expertise in enterprise software implementation — ideally in PSA, project-based software, or adjacent SaaS categories.
• Experience managing or overseeing delivery partners/system integrators, with the ability to hold partner delivery to internal quality standards.
• AI fluency at a practical level — you know how to apply AI tools to make a delivery team faster and more productive, and can bring that mindset to your team.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate, present, and influence stakeholders at all levels, including C-suite buyers and internal leadership.
• Excellent listening, negotiation, and communication skills — verbal and written.

Additional Information

This role is based in North America; some travel required for customer engagements and team collaboration. Reports into Kantata Global Services leadership.