Manager, Delivery Excellence
Company: Glean
Location: Nashville
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
About Glean: Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone
work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced
enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem,
powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI
agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS
connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives
organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI
across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly
implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how
enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph
and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people,
content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized,
context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers
Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work
across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data:
enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and
real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster
onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter,
safer decisions at every level. Recognized by Fast Company as one
of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s
Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI
50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to
accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50 industries
and 1,000 employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the
world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and
turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build
systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow,
Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get
things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open,
extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise
trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.
About the Role: Glean is seeking an additional leader of our DEM
(Delivery Excellence Management) team. The Delivery Excellence team
is accountable for a customer’s deployment of the Glean platform.
They lead efficient technical deployments, proactive program
management, and measurable value realization for customers—from
kickoff through go?live and growth. DEMs partner closely with
Sales, Solution Architects, AI Outcomes, Support, and R&D to
deliver reliable launches and long-term success. You will: Lead,
grow, and mentor a team of Delivery Excellence Managers; own team
performance, operating rhythms, and career development. Establish
prescriptive delivery playbooks, templates, and operating standards
(SSO, people data, connectors, readiness gates) to ensure
consistent, high-quality deployments at scale. Own end?to?end
delivery governance across your team’s accounts: kickoff, plan,
deploy, go?live, handoff, and renewal?readiness, including
proactive risk management and escalation handling. Set and report
on portfolio?level KPIs (deployment velocity, time?to?value,
adoption, satisfaction, ROI proxies), and drive continuous
improvement against these metrics. Partner with Sales, Solution
Architects, AI Outcomes Managers, Support, and R&D to ensure a
seamless customer journey and accelerate value realization
post?launch. Engage with executive sponsors and customer program
leads to align on goals, joint success plans, and measurable
outcomes; serve as a strategic advisor when tradeoffs arise.
Systematize feedback loops from field to product; influence roadmap
and readiness (connectors, deployment tooling, admin UX,
observability) with clear business impact cases. Raise the delivery
bar: improve onboarding processes, documentation, playbooks, and
tooling; champion operational excellence across planning,
execution, and closeout. About you: 6 years in customer-facing
delivery, implementation, technical account management, or
consulting for enterprise SaaS; 2 years leading/managing delivery
or customer success/PS teams. Strong understanding of SDLC and
modern delivery practices (Agile/DevOps), with the ability to guide
hands-on work in SSO setup, people data, and enterprise connector
configuration. Proven record of building playbooks, standardizing
processes, and running delivery at scale with clear KPIs and
continuous improvement cycles. Executive presence and clear
communication; comfortable leading escalations, aligning
cross?functional stakeholders, and making outcome?oriented
decisions. Analytical, systems-thinking mindset; adept at
diagnosing deployment blockers and translating field insights into
product/process enhancements. Cloud fluency (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
One of the following—or willingness to obtain within 90 days—is a
plus: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Certified Azure
Fundamentals, or Google Cloud Digital Leader. Location: This role
is hybrid (4 days a week in our Nashville office) Compensation &
Benefits: Compensation offered will be determined by factors such
as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity,
and benefits. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including
competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage,
generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your
401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll
receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual
education and wellness stipends to support your growth and
wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular
events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and
focused. We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue
to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our
organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company.
We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or
race. LI-HYBRID AI-First Mindset at Glean: At Glean, AI fluency is
core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire
feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of
the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise
or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and
use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any
tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean
experience isn't required.
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