Zendesk Group
Job DescriptionCustomer experience is transforming through AI-driven innovation. At Zendesk, we don't just embrace this change - we lead it. Our Professional Services team is revolutionizing how we help our customers implement and adopt AI by building an AI Delivery team and methodology. As the technical and product expert for our AI-powered Resolution Platform, the AI Services Consultant role is integral to delivering quick time to value while guiding our customers through their configuration and optimization. MissionAs an AI Services Consultant at Zendesk, your mission is to provide technical solutions and remove roadblocks for your customers to drive resolutions on our AI Platform. You will act as a technical expert and trusted advisor, guiding customers through complex configurations with agility and precision. Your strong consulting skills and project management expertise will ensure seamless integration and optimization of AI solutions, driving transformative business outcomes. Overarching Objective For The Role: Accelerate customers' time to value by driving adoption and operational excellence for Zendesk AI solutions, ensuring customers realize measurable business impact from initial deployment through scale Be the customer's AI technical expert. Turn goals into the right configuration, integrations, and design choices, and remove blockers fast. Lead smooth, on-time delivery. Run projects end-to-end with clear scope, timelines, and stakeholder alignment to deliver reliably. How You'll Make an Impact Strategic Accountabilities Technical Expertise & Guidance: Provide expert advice on the implementation and optimization of Zendesk AI products, ensuring customers leverage the full capabilities of the technology to meet their business goals. Change Management & Training: Facilitate change management processes and deliver consultative sessions to ensure smooth adoption and integration of AI solutions within customer organizations. Successful Project Delivery: Accountable for the timely and successful delivery of AI projects, meeting or exceeding customer expectations and maintaining high standards of quality. Customer Satisfaction: Maintain high levels of customer satisfaction, contributing to customer retention and potential upsell opportunities. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams, including Customer Success and Sales, to ensure alignment on the customer's AI Roadmap and address any technical challenges that would block the customer from adopting AI. Tactical solutions for business outcomes: Ensure that AI solutions are effectively aligned with customer business goals, resulting in measurable improvements in customer experience and AI Adoption. What You'll Need to Succeed Strategic Skills & Expertise Consulting Expertise: Strong consulting skills with the ability to assess client needs, develop strategic solutions, and provide expert guidance throughout the project lifecycle. Strong Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of AI projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and meet quality standards. Technical Proficiency in AI: Deep understanding of AI technologies, particularly Zendesk AI products, with the ability to implement and optimize these solutions effectively. Agility and Adaptability: Ability to work effectively in diverse and dynamic environments, adapting to changing client needs and industry trends. Problem-Solving Abilities: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify challenges and develop innovative solutions. Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying updated on the latest AI trends and advancements, ensuring the delivery of cutting-edge solutions to clients. Qualifications Must have a minimum of 3+ years of related experience in Consulting / Professional Services Previous experience in go-to-customer/GTM roles in enterprise technology / SaaS - either customer success management, professional services/consulting, technical account management, or solutions engineering/pre-sales consulting Demonstrated experience in using adoption and health analytics to build predictive models and forecasts for churn and expansion; surface early risk signals and recommended mitigations to secure retention and growth Demonstrated experience designing and executing success plans or roadmaps that drive measurable customer outcomes Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degrees; certifications in AI strategy or project management preferred. Experience managing AI or software adoption programs with demonstrated impact on business metrics such as retention or satisfaction. Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degrees; certifications in AI strategy or project management preferred. Certifications in AI strategy or project management preferred Excellent program management and cross-functional influence skills Familiarity with emerging AI trends is a plus Ability to distill complex AI concepts for diverse audiences, especially executive stakeholdersHybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager. The intelligent heart of customer experience Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please .Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to with your specific accommodation request.
Job DescriptionCustomer experience is transforming through AI-driven innovation. At Zendesk, we don't just embrace this change - we lead it. Our Professional Services team is revolutionizing how we help our customers implement and adopt AI by building an AI Delivery team and methodology. As the technical and product expert for our AI-powered Resolution Platform, the AI Services Consultant role is integral to delivering quick time to value while guiding our customers through their configuration and optimization. MissionAs an AI Services Consultant at Zendesk, your mission is to provide technical solutions and remove roadblocks for your customers to drive resolutions on our AI Platform. You will act as a technical expert and trusted advisor, guiding customers through complex configurations with agility and precision. Your strong consulting skills and project management expertise will ensure seamless integration and optimization of AI solutions, driving transformative business outcomes. Overarching Objective For The Role: Accelerate customers' time to value by driving adoption and operational excellence for Zendesk AI solutions, ensuring customers realize measurable business impact from initial deployment through scale Be the customer's AI technical expert. Turn goals into the right configuration, integrations, and design choices, and remove blockers fast. Lead smooth, on-time delivery. Run projects end-to-end with clear scope, timelines, and stakeholder alignment to deliver reliably. How You'll Make an Impact Strategic Accountabilities Technical Expertise & Guidance: Provide expert advice on the implementation and optimization of Zendesk AI products, ensuring customers leverage the full capabilities of the technology to meet their business goals. Change Management & Training: Facilitate change management processes and deliver consultative sessions to ensure smooth adoption and integration of AI solutions within customer organizations. Successful Project Delivery: Accountable for the timely and successful delivery of AI projects, meeting or exceeding customer expectations and maintaining high standards of quality. Customer Satisfaction: Maintain high levels of customer satisfaction, contributing to customer retention and potential upsell opportunities. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams, including Customer Success and Sales, to ensure alignment on the customer's AI Roadmap and address any technical challenges that would block the customer from adopting AI. Tactical solutions for business outcomes: Ensure that AI solutions are effectively aligned with customer business goals, resulting in measurable improvements in customer experience and AI Adoption. What You'll Need to Succeed Strategic Skills & Expertise Consulting Expertise: Strong consulting skills with the ability to assess client needs, develop strategic solutions, and provide expert guidance throughout the project lifecycle. Strong Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Project Management: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of AI projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and meet quality standards. Technical Proficiency in AI: Deep understanding of AI technologies, particularly Zendesk AI products, with the ability to implement and optimize these solutions effectively. Agility and Adaptability: Ability to work effectively in diverse and dynamic environments, adapting to changing client needs and industry trends. Problem-Solving Abilities: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify challenges and develop innovative solutions. Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying updated on the latest AI trends and advancements, ensuring the delivery of cutting-edge solutions to clients. Qualifications Must have a minimum of 3+ years of related experience in Consulting / Professional Services Previous experience in go-to-customer/GTM roles in enterprise technology / SaaS - either customer success management, professional services/consulting, technical account management, or solutions engineering/pre-sales consulting Demonstrated experience in using adoption and health analytics to build predictive models and forecasts for churn and expansion; surface early risk signals and recommended mitigations to secure retention and growth Demonstrated experience designing and executing success plans or roadmaps that drive measurable customer outcomes Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degrees; certifications in AI strategy or project management preferred. Experience managing AI or software adoption programs with demonstrated impact on business metrics such as retention or satisfaction. Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degrees; certifications in AI strategy or project management preferred. Certifications in AI strategy or project management preferred Excellent program management and cross-functional influence skills Familiarity with emerging AI trends is a plus Ability to distill complex AI concepts for diverse audiences, especially executive stakeholdersHybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager. The intelligent heart of customer experience Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please .Zendesk endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and disabled veterans pursuant to applicable federal and state law. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please send an e-mail to with your specific accommodation request.
Zendesk Group
Job DescriptionCustomer experience is transforming through AI-driven innovation. At Zendesk, we don't just embrace this change - we lead it. Our Professional Services team is revolutionizing how we help our customers implement and adopt AI by building an AI Delivery team and methodology. As the Manager, you will be leading a team of consultants who deliver quick time to value while guiding their customers through technical configuration and optimization. This role blends deep product expertise with people leadership: you'll be both the product authority for your team and the coach who develops their skills to deliver at scale. MissionYou will manage and grow a high-performing team (6-10 direct reports) that consistently delivers fast, measurable customer outcomes on Zendesk AI. You will set clear strategy, standards, and operating rhythm for AI delivery, ensuring the right people are staffed to the right work, projects are tightly scoped and executed predictably, and risks/blockers are escalated and removed quickly. You will align with Sales, Customer Success, and Product on customer roadmaps and success metrics. You will be responsible for continuous improvement in methodology, enablement, and quality so we increase adoption, customer satisfaction, retention, and expansion at scale. Ways of working: Strategic alignment is key from day one. We have a hybrid approach to working with 2-day in-office presence but during your first 90 days we would expect 3-4 days a week to ensure you are deeply embedded in the business and can drive outcomes immediately. Overarching Objective For The Role: Scale a high-performing AI Delivery organization: Hire, onboard, coach, and retain AI Services Consultants; build clear roles, capacity planning, and career development. Deliver predictable, measurable customer outcomes and time to value: Ensure projects are staffed and executed on time and within scope with clear success metrics tied to business impact. Proactively manage risks, technical blockers, and stakeholder alignment to keep implementations moving and value realized through scale. Drive cross-functional alignment and a repeatable AI delivery motion: Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Product to align on customer AI roadmaps, handoffs, and expansion paths. Use customer insights and delivery data to improve packaging, playbooks, and forecasting-supporting retention and growth. How You'll Make an Impact Strategic Responsibilities Build and scale the AI Delivery operating model: Define and evolve the delivery methodology, standards, templates, and governance to ensure consistent quality and repeatability across customers and consultants. Own capacity, prioritization, and staffing strategy: Forecast demand, balance utilization vs. customer outcomes, assign the right consultants to the right work, and proactively manage escalations and tradeoffs to protect time-to-value and margin. Drive outcome-based execution and accountability: Ensure your team delivers high quality solutions, delivery meets timelines, scope, and measurable business impact based on the AI Success Roadmap. Lead cross-functional alignment for a unified AI go-to-customer motion: Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Product on handoffs, customer AI roadmaps, risk management, and expansion plays, creating shared accountability for retention and growth. Develop team capability and product authority at scale: Coach and enable a team of 6-10 consultants through skills development, knowledge management, and technical/product readiness; create feedback loops from the field to improve product, tooling, and enablement. What You'll Need to Succeed Strategic Skills & Expertise People leadership & team scaling: Proven ability to hire, onboard, coach, and retain consultants; set clear expectations, drive performance, and build career paths and progression frameworks. Technical and product authority in AI implementations: Strong fluency in AI-enabled customer service workflows, integrations, data readiness, and configuration best practices-able to guide solution design decisions and unblock complex escalations. Operational delivery: Define and run team playbooks, KPIs, and SLAs; own tooling or dashboards that provide a single source of truth for delivery and risk. Delivery management excellence: Expertise in running multi-workstream delivery with strong scoping, resourcing, risk management, change control, and executive stakeholder communication to ensure predictable outcomes. Outcome-based consulting & value realization: Skilled at translating customer goals and roadmaps into technical solutions, defining scope and timelines, and delivering quality implementations. Cross-functional influence & GTM alignment: Ability to align Sales, CS, Product, and Services on customer roadmaps, handoffs, and expansion motions; leverage delivery insights to improve packaging, forecasting, and product feedback loops. Qualifications Fluent in German or French or English (written and spoken). 7+ years in Professional Services / Technical Account Management / Solutions Consulting in enterprise SaaS; 2+ years in AI-related roles or working on AI product adoption. 2+ years of people management experience leading customer-facing teams (6-10 direct reports). Previous experience in go-to-customer/GTM roles in enterprise technology / SaaS - either customer success management, professional services/consulting, technical account management, or solutions engineering/pre-sales consulting Demonstrated experience in using adoption and health analytics to forecast churn and expansion; surface early risk signals and recommended mitigations to secure retention and growth. Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degrees; certifications in AI strategy or project management preferred. Demonstrated product expertise: ability to translate generative AI features, integrations, and technical requirements into business outcomes. Proven cross-functional influence with Product and Engineering; experience surfacing product feedback and driving prioritization. Track record of building predictive adoption models, using analytics to forecast churn/expansion and operationalizing mitigations. Excellent communication skills; ability to distill complex AI concepts for executives and technical teams.Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager. The intelligent heart of customer experience Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation,
Job DescriptionCustomer experience is transforming through AI-driven innovation. At Zendesk, we don't just embrace this change - we lead it. Our Professional Services team is revolutionizing how we help our customers implement and adopt AI by building an AI Delivery team and methodology. As the Manager, you will be leading a team of consultants who deliver quick time to value while guiding their customers through technical configuration and optimization. This role blends deep product expertise with people leadership: you'll be both the product authority for your team and the coach who develops their skills to deliver at scale. MissionYou will manage and grow a high-performing team (6-10 direct reports) that consistently delivers fast, measurable customer outcomes on Zendesk AI. You will set clear strategy, standards, and operating rhythm for AI delivery, ensuring the right people are staffed to the right work, projects are tightly scoped and executed predictably, and risks/blockers are escalated and removed quickly. You will align with Sales, Customer Success, and Product on customer roadmaps and success metrics. You will be responsible for continuous improvement in methodology, enablement, and quality so we increase adoption, customer satisfaction, retention, and expansion at scale. Ways of working: Strategic alignment is key from day one. We have a hybrid approach to working with 2-day in-office presence but during your first 90 days we would expect 3-4 days a week to ensure you are deeply embedded in the business and can drive outcomes immediately. Overarching Objective For The Role: Scale a high-performing AI Delivery organization: Hire, onboard, coach, and retain AI Services Consultants; build clear roles, capacity planning, and career development. Deliver predictable, measurable customer outcomes and time to value: Ensure projects are staffed and executed on time and within scope with clear success metrics tied to business impact. Proactively manage risks, technical blockers, and stakeholder alignment to keep implementations moving and value realized through scale. Drive cross-functional alignment and a repeatable AI delivery motion: Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Product to align on customer AI roadmaps, handoffs, and expansion paths. Use customer insights and delivery data to improve packaging, playbooks, and forecasting-supporting retention and growth. How You'll Make an Impact Strategic Responsibilities Build and scale the AI Delivery operating model: Define and evolve the delivery methodology, standards, templates, and governance to ensure consistent quality and repeatability across customers and consultants. Own capacity, prioritization, and staffing strategy: Forecast demand, balance utilization vs. customer outcomes, assign the right consultants to the right work, and proactively manage escalations and tradeoffs to protect time-to-value and margin. Drive outcome-based execution and accountability: Ensure your team delivers high quality solutions, delivery meets timelines, scope, and measurable business impact based on the AI Success Roadmap. Lead cross-functional alignment for a unified AI go-to-customer motion: Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Product on handoffs, customer AI roadmaps, risk management, and expansion plays, creating shared accountability for retention and growth. Develop team capability and product authority at scale: Coach and enable a team of 6-10 consultants through skills development, knowledge management, and technical/product readiness; create feedback loops from the field to improve product, tooling, and enablement. What You'll Need to Succeed Strategic Skills & Expertise People leadership & team scaling: Proven ability to hire, onboard, coach, and retain consultants; set clear expectations, drive performance, and build career paths and progression frameworks. Technical and product authority in AI implementations: Strong fluency in AI-enabled customer service workflows, integrations, data readiness, and configuration best practices-able to guide solution design decisions and unblock complex escalations. Operational delivery: Define and run team playbooks, KPIs, and SLAs; own tooling or dashboards that provide a single source of truth for delivery and risk. Delivery management excellence: Expertise in running multi-workstream delivery with strong scoping, resourcing, risk management, change control, and executive stakeholder communication to ensure predictable outcomes. Outcome-based consulting & value realization: Skilled at translating customer goals and roadmaps into technical solutions, defining scope and timelines, and delivering quality implementations. Cross-functional influence & GTM alignment: Ability to align Sales, CS, Product, and Services on customer roadmaps, handoffs, and expansion motions; leverage delivery insights to improve packaging, forecasting, and product feedback loops. Qualifications Fluent in German or French or English (written and spoken). 7+ years in Professional Services / Technical Account Management / Solutions Consulting in enterprise SaaS; 2+ years in AI-related roles or working on AI product adoption. 2+ years of people management experience leading customer-facing teams (6-10 direct reports). Previous experience in go-to-customer/GTM roles in enterprise technology / SaaS - either customer success management, professional services/consulting, technical account management, or solutions engineering/pre-sales consulting Demonstrated experience in using adoption and health analytics to forecast churn and expansion; surface early risk signals and recommended mitigations to secure retention and growth. Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degrees; certifications in AI strategy or project management preferred. Demonstrated product expertise: ability to translate generative AI features, integrations, and technical requirements into business outcomes. Proven cross-functional influence with Product and Engineering; experience surfacing product feedback and driving prioritization. Track record of building predictive adoption models, using analytics to forecast churn/expansion and operationalizing mitigations. Excellent communication skills; ability to distill complex AI concepts for executives and technical teams.Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager. The intelligent heart of customer experience Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.As part of our commitment to fairness and transparency, we inform all applicants that artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision systems may be used to screen or evaluate applications for this position, in accordance with Company guidelines and applicable law.Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation,