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Head of Customer ImplementationGearset · Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Head of Customer Implementation

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-08 Cambridge, United Kingdom Fulltime Hybrid Customer Service Call Centre
💰 Salary 125 GBP/mo (1,500 GBP/yr) 📊 Market 6,250 GBP–8,333 GBP/mo

About the Company

Getting implementation right has a lasting impact on our customers. It helps them see value sooner, build confidence with Gearset, and creates stronger foundations for renewal and growth. As our enterprise and mid-market customer base grows, we're investing in implementation as a distinct part of our Customer Growth organisation. We're looking for a Head of Customer Implementation to lead that work, bringing greater structure and consistency to delivery while developing the team responsible for helping customers get started successfully. This is a newly created role within our Customer Growth leadership team, sitting alongside Customer Success and Account Management. You'll lead our Customer Onboarding and DevOps Architecture teams, own implementation performance across enterprise and mid-market customers, and shape how we work with Sales, Solutions Engineering and our delivery partners. There are strong foundations to build from, alongside plenty of opportunity to improve how we work. You'll have the autonomy to evolve our implementation approach, strengthen how teams work together from pre-sales through to Customer Success, and build a function that supports our customers as Gearset continues to grow. WHAT'S THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A HEAD OF CUSTOMER IMPLEMENTATION AT GEARSET - Own implementation performance across our enterprise and mid-market customers, with responsibility for delivery quality, time to value, on-time go-lives and customer satisfaction. - Evolve our i

Requirements

  • ● You have experience leading Implementation, Professional Services or a related customer delivery function, ideally within B2B SaaS, including experience leading and developing managers.
  • ● You've evolved an implementation or delivery methodology across customers with different levels of complexity, and can show the impact your changes had on areas such as time to go-live, customer satisfaction, delivery quality or team efficiency.
  • ● You have experience working with professional services or delivery partners and know how to create the structure, support and oversight needed for consistent, high-quality delivery.
  • ● You're comfortable working alongside Sales in complex pre-sales conversations and building relationships with senior customer stakeholders, including when navigating challenging conversations.
  • ● You understand how implementation influences adoption, retention and growth, and bring that commercial understanding to how you lead the function and make decisions.
  • ● You care about developing people across technical and customer-facing roles, with experience helping managers become stronger coaches and building leadership capability within a team.
  • ● You work collaboratively across teams and can build alignment with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success and other stakeholders, communicating clearly with different audiences.
  • ● NICE TO HAVES
  • ● Familiarity with Salesforce DevOps, release management, or the challenges teams face when managing complex Salesforce environments.

Benefits

  • ● This is a full-time role, working Monday to Friday, with flexible home working. For this role, you'll spend around 4 days a month in the office.
  • ● Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to 1500 per year
  • ● Top end hardware provided
  • ● Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive Plan
  • ● Free lunch in the office
  • ● days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
  • ● Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
  • ● Bupa health care
  • ● Enhanced family leave from day 1, including 26 weeks full maternity/adoption pay, OTE-inclusive
  • ● Bupa Menopause Plan offering specialist consultations and support
  • ● Life Insurance & critical illness cover
  • ● Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits