Services Strategy Manager in London

The Services Strategy team is on a mission to make every Diligent services professional more effective at delivering client outcomes. We own the methodology that implementation teams deliver with, the Professional Services Automation platform that every services team uses, the onboarding curriculum that ramps new hires, the capacity infrastructure that matches practitioners to work, and the data layer that surfaces delivery patterns across the business.

As a Services Strategy Manager, you will be embedded in one of these workstreams — methodology, Professional Services Automation, onboarding, capacity, or data — and own the day-to‑day operational health of your area. This is not an administrative role. You will be hands‑on in the build, shipping the documentation, configurations, training materials, or analytics that directly shape how Professional Services, Partner Delivery, Client Support, PMO, and Services Sales practitioners do their work. You will identify friction, ship improvements, and measure adoption — not maintain the status quo.

• Workstream Ownership: Own day-to-day operational health of one Services Strategy workstream — methodology, Professional Services Automation, onboarding, capacity, or data — within the broader function.
• Build and Ship: Build and maintain the documentation, configurations, training materials, or analytics that your workstream produces. You will be hands‑on in the build, not just defining requirements.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with practitioners and leaders across Professional Services, Partner Delivery, Client Support, and Managed Services on what they need from your workstream and how it could work better.
• Operating Rhythm: Run regular working sessions with the services teams who use your workstream’s output: what’s working, what’s not, what needs to change.
• Pattern Surfacing: Surface usage patterns, gaps, and friction points to your manager and to the broader function when patterns cross workstream lines.
• Metrics Discipline: Maintain workstream-level metrics — adoption, adherence, accuracy, freshness — that demonstrate your workstream’s actual impact.
• Cross-Workstream Initiatives: Support cross-workstream initiatives when scope spans multiple Services Strategy workstreams.
• Vendor and Platform Work: Participate in vendor evaluations, methodology refreshes, curriculum updates, or platform configuration changes as they arise for your workstream.
• Team Development: Coach more junior team members on workstream operations and stakeholder engagement.

• Domain Experience (Required): Demonstrated experience in professional services operations, services automation administration, services training and onboarding design, capacity and resource management, or services analytics in the GRC software space or adjacent enterprise SaaS verticals.
• Workstream Depth (Required): Hands‑on experience with at least one of: methodology authorship and maintenance, Professional Services Automation platform administration, onboarding or training program design, capacity and resource management, or services analytics.
• Services Delivery Fluency: Working knowledge of professional services delivery and SaaS implementation.
• Operational Mindset: Comfortable owning operational metrics, identifying friction in processes, and shipping improvements that the services teams using your work actually adopt. You don’t wait for a tool to exist — you build it.
• AI Fluency (Required): Comfort with AI-augmented operational tools, prompt engineering, structured-capture habits, and the ability to evaluate AI outputs critically. You have built or shipped something with modern AI tooling, not just consumed it.
• Written Communication: Documentation, change communications, and training materials must be clear and durable across turnover.
• Cross‑Functional Range: Comfortable working across Professional Services, Partner Delivery, Support, and Managed Services.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• GRC Experience: Experience in GRC software, legal/compliance technology, audit/risk software, or board‑management software is an advantage.

Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.

At Diligent, we're building the future with people who think boldly and move fast. Whether you're designing systems that leverage large language models or part of a team reimagining workflows with AI, you'll help us unlock entirely new ways of working and thinking. Curiosity is in our DNA, we look for individuals willing to ask the big questions and experiment fearlessly - those who embrace change not as a challenge, but as an opportunity. The future belongs to those who keep learning, and we are building it together. At Diligent, you’re not just building the future - you’re an agent of positive change, joining a global community on a mission to make an impact.

What Diligent Offers You: Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be different both in our internal processes and to help our clients. We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting-free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few. We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney. Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in‑person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.

We are a drug-free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer-related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

At Diligent, we recognize the value of a diverse global workforce. Visa sponsorship may be available for select positions based on business needs and specific role requirements. Sponsorship decisions are evaluated on a case‑by‑case basis, and eligibility should not be assumed for all opportunities.