Chainguard

Senior Manager, Professional Services - EMEA

EMEA full-time Mid Salary not listed
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About the role

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.

Chainguard is looking for a Senior Manager of Professional Services - EMEA to lead delivery for a portion of our Enterprise segment. In this role, you'll own the end-to-end customer journey across implementations, consulting engagements, and advisory services — ensuring customers successfully adopt Chainguard solutions and achieve measurable outcomes.

You'll lead and develop a team of Solutions Architects while driving delivery that is predictable, scalable, and consistently high quality. This is an operational leadership role that requires equal parts customer empathy, business acumen, and a bias toward execution.

What You'll Do

Delivery & Segment Ownership

Own end-to-end PS delivery across onboarding, implementation, advisory, and expansion for your Enterprise segment

Monitor and improve utilization, on-time delivery, and customer satisfaction KPIs

Serve as the escalation point for complex or at-risk engagements

Team Leadership & Development

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Solutions Architects

Set performance expectations, coach to them, and own career development and succession planning

Partner with PS leadership on hiring and capacity planning

Services Strategy & Operations

Standardize delivery methodologies, tools, and best practices

Improve operational processes for efficiency, scalability, and predictability

Cross-Functional Partnership

Collaborate with Sales, CS, Product, Engineering, and Support for a seamless customer experience

Support pre-sales on strategic or complex opportunities

Funnel customer feedback into product and services improvements

Partner with PS leadership to evolve services packaging and pricing

Customer Outcomes & Growth

Ensure customers achieve defined business outcomes through services engagements

Identify expansion opportunities in partnership with Sales and CS

Proactively manage escalations and capture customer insights to improve delivery

What We're Looking For

7+ years in Professional Services, Consulting, Customer Success, or a related field

2+ years of leadership experience managing delivery teams or PS operations for a customer segment

Technical background in cybersecurity, DevOps, software engineering, or a related domain

Strong project or program management capabilities

Experience working cross-functionally in a high-growth technology environment

Excellent communication skills — comfortable engaging both technical teams and executive stakeholders

Must be located in the United Kingdom

About Us

We live and breathe our company values:

We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.

We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.

We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.

We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.

Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).

100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.

∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.

18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.

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  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at Chainguard?
  3. Which of Operations, Remote Collaboration and Sales have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. Describe a time you solved a problem without waiting to be told exactly what to do.
  5. How do you handle busy days, changing priorities, or pressure at work?

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  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

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  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
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I am interested in the Senior Manager, Professional Services - EMEA role because I can bring practical experience in Operations, Remote Collaboration and Sales, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Chainguard needs from this hire.

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