Senior Director Services Excellence

Posted 2 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX, USA
In-Office or Remote
195K-325K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Software • Conversational AI
The Role
Build and lead Sprinklr’s global Services Excellence organization, establishing the operating model, governance, portfolio standards, commercial controls, demand and workforce planning, delivery quality frameworks, process transformation, systems requirements, data governance, and executive reporting. The role partners across Services, Sales, Finance, Product, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations to improve scalability, forecast accuracy, margins, delivery consistency, and customer outcomes.
Summary Generated by Built In

Sprinklr is the definitive, AI-native platform for Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified-CXM), empowering brands to deliver extraordinary experiences at scale — across every customer touchpoint. 

By combining human instinct with the speed and efficiency of AI, Sprinklr helps brands earn trust and loyalty through personalized, seamless, and efficient customer interactions. Sprinklr’s unified platform provides powerful solutions for every customer-facing team — spanning social media management, marketing, advertising, customer feedback, and omnichannel contact center management — enabling enterprises to unify data, break down silos, and act on real-time insights. 

Today, 1,900+ enterprises and 60% of the Fortune 100 rely on Sprinklr to help them deliver consistent, trusted customer experiences worldwide. 

Job Description

Position Summary 

Sprinklr is creating a new Services Excellence organization to serve as the design authority, governance function, and operating system owner for the global Professional Services business. 

The Senior Director of Services Excellence will build this organization from the ground up. This leader will define how Services is sold, priced, forecasted, staffed, governed, delivered, measured, and continuously improved across the company. 

This is not a traditional operations or PMO role. This leader will establish the systems, standards, governance, metrics, and operating rhythms that enable a $100M+ global services organization to scale profitably while improving quality, customer outcomes, and delivery consistency. 

The successful candidate will be both a builder and operator: capable of creating an operating model from first principles while simultaneously driving adoption, accountability, and measurable business results. 

Mission: Build and institutionalize the Services operating system that enables predictable growth, scalable delivery, improved margins, and world-class customer outcomes. 

What This Leader Will Own 

1. Build the Services Excellence Organization 

  • Design and stand up the Services Excellence function from inception. 

  • Define the organization structure, charter, responsibilities, operating rhythm, governance forums, and success metrics. 

  • Recruit, develop, and lead a team spanning portfolio management, commercial governance, demand planning, workforce planning, delivery excellence, and business process excellence. 

  • Establish Services Excellence as the long-term owner of standards, guardrails, methodologies, metrics, process governance, QA, and continuous improvement. 

2. Services Portfolio Governance 

  • Define and manage the global services portfolio architecture, including offerings, packages, SKUs, rate cards, delivery models, and lifecycle ownership. 

  • Rationalize the portfolio so Sales can consume it, Delivery can execute it, and Finance can measure it. 

  • Establish portfolio governance mechanisms that ensure each offering is commercially viable, scalable, repeatable, and aligned to margin expectations. 

  • Partner with Sales and Delivery leadership to improve portfolio adoption, packaging, enablement, and reporting. 

3. Commercial Governance and Services Economics 

  • Own services deal governance frameworks, including approval rules, pricing controls, margin gates, and exception management. 

  • Partner with Finance, Revenue Operations, Deal Desk, and Sales to align cost basis, pricing methodology, discounting controls, and margin reporting. 

  • Drive adoption of standardized fully burdened cost models and profitability analytics. 

  • Identify and execute opportunities to improve gross margin, realization, utilization, partner spend efficiency, and overall services economics. 

4. Demand, Capacity and Workforce Planning 

  • Establish integrated demand forecasting that connects pipeline, bookings, revenue timing, staffing, capacity, and delivery needs. 

  • Build workforce planning models that determine where to hire, redeploy, cross-train, or use partners. 

  • Develop forward-looking capacity views by geography, service line, role, skill, and delivery model. 

  • Help leadership move from reactive staffing decisions to proactive capacity planning. 

5. Delivery Excellence 

  • Define global delivery standards, methodologies, quality frameworks, delivery governance, and operational runbooks. 

  • Create repeatable playbooks that convert customer and project learnings into institutional knowledge. 

  • Partner with regional delivery leaders to reduce project risk, delivery inconsistency, escalations, poor system hygiene, and margin leakage. 

  • Establish operating reviews across project health, customer outcomes, utilization, productivity, and delivery quality. 

6. Business Process Excellence and Transformation 

  • Redesign and optimize end-to-end Services processes across the customer lifecycle. 

  • Establish process ownership, decision rights, RACI models, and escalation paths across Services, Sales, Finance, Partner Operations, and Customer Success. 

  • Lead major transformation initiatives across operating model design, organizational structure, systems, reporting, governance, and change adoption. 

  • Create accountability through transformation roadmaps, scorecards, milestones, and executive inspection cadences. 

7. Systems, Automation and Data Governance 

  • Own Services requirements and prioritization for PSA, workflow, reporting, automation, and analytics platforms. 

  • Ensure systems support the operating model rather than allowing tools to dictate processes. 

  • Build executive reporting standards, data hygiene rules, scorecards, and operating dashboards. 

  • Partner with BI, Finance, RevOps, and Operations to ensure trusted data across portfolio, delivery, staffing, financial, and operational reporting. 

8. Executive Leadership and Change Management 

  • Act as a trusted advisor to the Services leadership team on operating model, economics, governance, and transformation priorities. 

  • Influence senior stakeholders across Services, Sales, Finance, Product, Customer Success, and global delivery teams. 

  • Translate executive vision into practical operating mechanisms that teams can adopt. 

  • Drive change management with direct communication, strong stakeholder engagement, and clear decision-making discipline. 

Required Experience 

  • 12+ years of progressive leadership experience across professional services, consulting, customer success operations, business transformation, strategy, operations, or services excellence. 

  • Significant experience operating in a global software, SaaS, consulting, or technology services organization. 

  • Proven track record building teams, operating models, transformation offices, or Centers of Excellence from the ground up. 

  • Deep understanding of professional services economics, including utilization, realization, gross margin, pricing, discounting, forecasting, capacity planning, revenue timing, and partner management. 

  • Experience owning cross-functional transformation initiatives with measurable operational and financial outcomes. 

  • Experience developing governance models, decision rights, operating cadences, executive reporting, and performance scorecards. 

  • Experience partnering with Sales, Finance, Services Delivery, Product, Revenue Operations, Customer Success, and executive leadership. 

Requisite Skills and Capabilities 

Builder mindset 

Creates structure where none exists and can operate through ambiguity without waiting for perfect inputs. 

Systems thinking 

Sees the connections between portfolio, pricing, staffing, partner usage, delivery quality, systems, reporting, and margin. 

Commercial judgment 

Understands how services decisions affect bookings, revenue, margin, customer outcomes, and long-term scalability. 

Operational rigor 

Builds repeatable processes, governance, metrics, and accountability mechanisms that teams can actually follow. 

Data fluency 

Uses financial, operational, delivery, and pipeline data to diagnose issues and drive decisions. 

Executive communication 

Can translate complex operating model issues into crisp recommendations, business cases, and decision asks. 

Influence without authority 

Can align regional leaders, finance partners, sales stakeholders, and delivery teams across competing priorities. 

Change leadership 

Can move the organization from informal ways of working to disciplined, scalable operating mechanisms. 

Talent development 

Can recruit, grow, and lead a high-caliber Services Excellence team with clear ownership and accountability. 

Success Measures After 12 Months 

  • Services Excellence organization stood up with clear charter, team design, governance, and executive sponsorship. 

  • Portfolio and commercial governance operating with defined standards, margin thresholds, approval gates, and exception management. 

  • Integrated demand-to-capacity planning model established across pipeline, bookings, staffing, partner usage, and delivery capacity. 

  • Global delivery standards, runbooks, quality reviews, and project health governance embedded into routine operations. 

  • Clear ownership model and decision rights established across Services Excellence, Services Operations, Partner Operations, Regional VPs, Finance, and Sales Operations. 

  • Improved margin visibility, forecast accuracy, operating discipline, system hygiene, process adoption, and delivery consistency. 

  • Services Excellence recognized as the permanent owner of the Services operating system and transformation roadmap. 

Target Candidate Profile 

The strongest candidate will likely have operated as a Services Transformation leader, Services Operations executive, Professional Services Excellence leader, Consulting COO, Transformation Office leader, or senior strategy and operations leader inside a scaled software, SaaS, consulting, or technology services environment. 

This person should not be a pure PMO leader or a pure delivery leader. The role requires someone who can design the operating model, build the organization, influence senior stakeholders, understand the economics, and drive measurable execution across a global services business. 

In practical terms, this is a mini-COO role for Services: part strategist, part operator, part transformation leader, and part governance owner. 

We focus on our mission: Sprinklr was founded in 2009 to solve a big problem: growing enterprise complexity that separated brands from their customers. Our vision was clear: to unify fragmented teams, tools and data — helping large organizations build deeper, more meaningful connections with the people they serve. Today, Sprinklr has a unified, AI-native platform for four product suites: Sprinklr Service, Sprinklr Social, Sprinklr Marketing, and Sprinklr Insights. Sprinklr is here to do three things: 

  • Lead a new category of enterprise software that we call Unified-CXM. 

  • Empower companies to deliver next generation, unified engagement journeys that reimagine the customer experience. 

  • Create a culture of customer obsession, with trust, teamwork, and accountability.

We believe in our product: Customers who value exceptional customer experiences have what they need on our single unified platform, built with an operating system approach on a single codebase. That means that everything — and everyone — can work together to service, respond, sell, and market to customers on the channels they prefer. While Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified-CXM) as a category is just getting started, we are well on our way to creating a no-compromise, unified approach to better customer experiences for the world’s leading enterprise brands. 

 

We invest in our people: We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to help each member of our team thrive. Sprinklr believes that you should be able to get the type of care you need for your personal well-being when you need it. We offer you and your family voluntary healthcare coverage in countries where applicable. We believe it is important to take time off – it is essential for your mental and physical wellbeing. We provide Sprinklrites with paid time off to recharge and spend time with loved ones. We want to grow our talent with purpose. Our open Mentoring Program is designed to create meaningful connections that support growth and amplify our focus. 

To learn more about employee benefits by region, click here. 

To learn more about all-things-Sprinklr, visit our candidate resource hub here. 

EEO - Our philosophy: Our goal is to ensure every employee feels like they belong and are operating in a collaborative environment. We fervently believe every employee matters and should be respected and heard. We believe we are stronger when we belong because collectively, we’re more innovative, creative, and successful.  

Sprinklr is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. 


Reasonable accommodations are available upon request during the interview process. To request an accommodation, please work directly with your recruitment coordinator or recruiter. 

JOB REQ COMPENSATION RANGE

$195,000 - $325,000

The base salary range for this role is shown above. At Sprinklr, base pay depends on multiple individualized factors, including experience, qualifications, job-related knowledge and skills, and geographic location. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package: the successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Sprinklr’s discretionary bonus plan, commission plan, and/or equity plan, depending on role.

US-based Sprinklr employees are eligible for a highly competitive benefits package as well, which demonstrates our commitment to our employees’ health, well-being, and financial protection. The US-based benefits include a 401k plan with 100% vested company contributions, flexible paid time off, holidays, generous caregiver and parental leaves, life and disability insurance, and health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

Warning about Recruiting Scams: Please be vigilant for recruiting scams impersonating Sprinklr. Sprinklr will never ask you for money, to pay for equipment, or for unnecessary personal information during the interview process. Sprinklr will also never pay in Bitcoin or send email communications from our executives. Please review the Federal Trade Commission's advice to avoid these types of scams.  

If you are contacted by someone whom you suspect may not be appropriately representing Sprinklr, please do not engage and block their email or phone number immediately.

Skills Required

  • 12+ years of progressive leadership experience across professional services, consulting, customer success operations, business transformation, strategy, operations, or services excellence
  • Significant experience operating in a global software, SaaS, consulting, or technology services organization
  • Proven track record building teams, operating models, transformation offices, or Centers of Excellence from the ground up
  • Deep understanding of professional services economics, including utilization, realization, gross margin, pricing, discounting, forecasting, capacity planning, revenue timing, and partner management
  • Experience owning cross-functional transformation initiatives with measurable operational and financial outcomes
  • Experience developing governance models, decision rights, operating cadences, executive reporting, and performance scorecards
  • Experience partnering with Sales, Finance, Services Delivery, Product, Revenue Operations, Customer Success, and executive leadership
  • Ability to build structure in ambiguous environments and operate with a builder mindset
  • Systems thinking across portfolio, pricing, staffing, partner usage, delivery quality, systems, reporting, and margin
  • Commercial judgment regarding bookings, revenue, margin, customer outcomes, and scalability
  • Operational rigor in building repeatable processes, governance, metrics, and accountability mechanisms
  • Data fluency using financial, operational, delivery, and pipeline data to drive decisions
  • Executive communication skills for translating complex operating-model issues into recommendations and decisions
  • Ability to influence regional leaders, finance partners, sales stakeholders, and delivery teams without direct authority
  • Change leadership experience moving organizations toward disciplined, scalable operating mechanisms
  • Ability to recruit, develop, and lead a high-caliber Services Excellence team

Sprinklr Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sprinklr and has not been reviewed or approved by Sprinklr.

  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental bonding time and company‑paid disability combine to provide up to 18 weeks for birth parents, with 10 weeks of paid bonding for all eligible parents. Family‑building support spans Kindbody fertility and menopause programs plus a medical travel and lodging benefit.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Mental‑health resources include counseling and coaching through Modern Health and an EAP, along with access to the Calm app and wellness discounts. Additional lifestyle support includes flexible PTO, a dedicated learning day, and savings via Perks at Work.
  • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered generally fair to good across many roles, with stronger satisfaction where variable comp and equity provide meaningful upside. Sales and customer‑facing roles show high on‑target earnings potential when targets are met.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
4,289 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Sprinklr is a provider of enterprise software for customer experience management. We help brands turn public conversations on modern channels into valuable insights to improve marketing, advertising, customer service, product development and more. Sprinklr has five products on one platform: Modern Marketing, Modern Advertising, Modern Research, Modern Care and Modern Engagement. Sprinklr’s unified platform allows siloed teams to collaborate and deliver memorable customer experiences — at scale. Founded in September 2009, Sprinklr is headquartered in NYC with 1,900 employees in 16 countries and 25 offices.

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