24 Oct
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Tipalti
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Canada
As the Manager, Strategic Onboarding, you will lead a team responsible for Tipalti’s most complex and strategically important customer implementations, including both internally delivered and partner-led engagements You will be accountable for the performance, development, and success of your team and the overall health of the delivery portfolio, ensuring projects are appropriately staffed, risks are identified and addressed early, and customers receive a consistently high-quality onboarding experience You will own portfolio-level delivery performance, capacity and resource management, operational cadence, and first-line escalation management for your team You will coach and develop experienced Onboarding Managers, establish repeatable and scalable delivery practices, and partner cross-functionally to remove systemic barriers to successful implementation This is a people and portfolio leadership role, not an individual implementation role. Success is measured by the performance of the team and portfolio—not by personally carrying customer implementations Lead, coach, and develop a team of experienced Onboarding Managers responsible for complex and strategically important customer implementations Establish transparent performance expectations, provide regular coaching and feedback, and create development opportunities that strengthen the team’s delivery and leadership capabilities Build a culture of ownership and accountability in which Onboarding Managers independently lead their portfolios and elevate intentionally rather than relying on management to run projects for them Recruit, hire, onboard, and develop new team members as the organization grows Own performance management, goal setting, and development planning for the team Own the overall health and performance of the Strategic Onboarding portfolio,
including project health, delivery risk, time-to-value, customer experience, capacity, and forecast accuracy Establish and lead a consistent portfolio operating cadence that surfaces risks early, drives clear ownership of actions, and enables proactive intervention before issues become escalations Own staffing and capacity management across the team, balancing customer needs, project complexity, team capabilities, and business priorities Serve as the first level of management escalation for at-risk implementations, providing leadership and executive customer engagement when appropriate while maintaining clear ownership with the assigned Onboarding Manager Provide leadership oversight for Tipalti’s most complex and strategically important implementations, ensuring teams have the resources, cross-functional support, and decision-making required for successful delivery Identify patterns across projects and escalations and translate them into systemic improvements rather than repeatedly solving the same issues customer by customer Maintain accurate portfolio visibility and forecasting, using data to identify emerging risks, capacity constraints, and opportunities to improve delivery performance Provide operational oversight of strategic partner-led implementations within the broader Strategic Onboarding portfolio, ensuring appropriate visibility, governance, escalation management,
and consistent delivery standards across both Tipalti-led and partner-led engagements Identify and implement improvements to delivery processes, tools, and operating practices that increase consistency, scalability, and customer outcomes Use portfolio data and frontline insights to identify systemic delivery issues and drive improvements across the organization Partner with Product, Engineering, Support, Sales, Professional Services, Alliances, and other cross-functional teams to resolve recurring delivery barriers and represent the needs of Strategic Onboarding Ensure lessons learned, delivery patterns, and successful practices are captured and reused across the team rather than remaining with individual team members Share structured product and process feedback with appropriate stakeholders to improve the customer onboarding experience Establish transparent ownership and escalation paths for cross-functional dependencies that impact customer delivery Champion adoption of AI-enabled delivery workflows across Strategic Onboarding, partnering with the AI Strategy function to identify high-value opportunities, drive frontline adoption, and measure operational impact Help evolve team roles and operating practices as AI removes administrative work, enabling Onboarding Managers to spend more time on strategic customer engagement and higher-value delivery activities Provide frontline feedback and operational insights to help ensure AI capabilities address real delivery challenges and create measurable value Reinforce new AI-enabled ways of working through coaching, operating cadence, and performance expectations Benefits
Hybrid work model Equity packages Company events Collaborative work spaces Opportunities for professional growth Inclusive
📌 Manager of Strategic Customer Onboarding (Canada)
🏢 Tipalti
📍 Canada