Implementation Manager

About Birdie

Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its all-in-one solution supports millions of care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most day-to-day operations. Birdie is B-Corp certified and was recently named as a top two Home Health Tech provider globally in the cohort of top 150 Most Innovative Digital Health startups by CB Insight in 2021.

Launched in 2017, Birdie is a team of socially motivated care, health, product and tech entrepreneurs. We were nominated one of the top 10 UK startups to watch, the SME with the best culture in the UK and was in the 2020 Business Cloud Top 50 Start Up's list. In 2021 we were named no.9 in Start Up's top 100 innovative and disruptive businesses as well as being accepted into Tech Nation's 2021 Upscale 7.0 program. As of June 2022 we closed our series B funding with £25m invested by Sofina, Omers & Index ventures.

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  ️ Your mission

The mission of the implementation manager is to help our mid-market and enterprise customers to implement the Birdie software across their care business at scale. You will manage a number of projects in parallel with a focus on onboarding, and be the main point of contact for a number of high-value accounts throughout their implementation. You'll take a consultative role with each customer to ensure that you are able to gather requirements, including technical requirements but also working with non-technical (operational) teams. You’ll liaise across internal and external stakeholders, and execute onboarding strategies to ensure success. You will build strong relationships with our partners and be seen as a trusted advisor to all stakeholders, including C-Suite. You'll listen to our partners' challenges and demonstrate continuous partnership.

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  ️ How you will contribute

You will project manage and oversee the whole implementation process with mid-market and enterprise accounts.

You will navigate large enterprise organisations and internal stakeholders through complex projects.

You will be a Birdie expert and provide one-one, group training, and train-the-trainer, both onsite and remotely.

You will be the voice of the customer to the wider company internally.

You will focus on conversion to live for all customers within the agreed timeframe and mitigate any risks to the implementation.

You will configure the agencies' platform and perform integrations where needed.

You will work as a senior member within the onboarding team and take initiatives on new processes to improve time to value.

Requirements

We’d love to hear from you if

You're a super-motivated individual with outstanding interpersonal skills and stakeholder management.

You’re a boundary pusher - able to push clients out of their comfort zones for common success.

You have experience in onboarding/implementation with large accounts, project management, or enterprise-level customer success management.

You're able to fix next steps and deadlines very clearly thanks to outstanding and clear communication on what's expected from the customer.

You are proactive and always looking to delight customers.

You're highly organised, you are able to structure and prioritise your workload to achieve your targets.

You can make systematic usage of data to guide actions and to proactively understand customers needs, challenges and risks.

You're highly empathetic, you're able to understand the customers day to day work and main challenges.

You have a strong drive for our mission at Birdie and you're able to influence our partners to take actions conducive to both their success and the success of Birdie.

These are our ideal requirements, but we know some people are less likely to apply for the role unless they are 100% qualified. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture at Birdie, so please apply if you meet the majority of these competencies.

The Interview Process

1. Meet Jack and learn more about Birdie

You will first meet Jack over a Google Meet. There is nothing to prepare for this chat, it is a chance to learn more about Birdie and to tell us all about you!

2. The Expertise Interview

Now it's time to meet the hiring manager, our onboarding team lead Simone. Again, nothing to prepare for this one!

Simone is the perfect person to field your role specific questions. It is a chance for us to explore your experiences, how you work and where you may fit in.

3. The Values Interview

Here you will meet a member of the Birdie team from a different chapter. This conversation allows us to explore your motivations, values and how you can be a great add on to Birdie.

4. The Project Session ✏️

Time to meet some of the CS team! Jack or Simone will share a brief with you, this is your opportunity to prepare and then present your work back to us.

5. Meet a Co Founder

The final step in the process gives you the chance to meet one of our amazing cofounders! You will spend 45 minutes with Max, Gwen, Abeed or Raj. A great opportunity to ask any final questions and learn more about how Birdie was born!!

Benefits

What are the benefits?

People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture (employer net promotion score of 67) with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer exceptional benefits and invest massively in our team's happiness, wellbeing and growth:

✨ Compensation

Our salary packages are competitive, the role is £50k. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.

Flexible

We are a fully distributed team with Birdie's working across the globe. We organise quarterly in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers. If you want to come to our London based office, you're most welcome of course!

L&D budget

Growth is key. You'll have a personal development budget to put towards books (e.g., free audible subscription), courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts

Base holiday

33 days base holiday (25 days + 8 bank holidays) + Christmas eve day off

Christmas leave

Birdie closes between Christmas and New Year so you can have some down time with your loved ones. This is in addition to your base holiday!

Birthday leave

You can take your birthday off when it falls on a weekday! (effective from 1st Jan 2023)

• ️ Private health insurance

Private health insurance with Vitality that covers many physical and mental health costs

• ️ Gym and wellbeing memberships

Gym membership and numerous other wellbeing perks and discounts via Vitality

Cycle to work scheme

Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months

Parental Leave

Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.

Pension employer contribution

Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension.

• Frequent company socials, trips and meals

We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual trips (like our epic ski trips)

Exceptional culture

We see ourselves as social entrepreneurs shaping a new kind of organisation: caring, responsible yet fostering excellence. Read The Birdie Way to learn more.

❓Why Birdie?

Join Birdie and seize this unique opportunity to shape the future of a transformative tech startup, to create positive social change, and develop yourself very fast in a flexible, close-knit & transparent organisation.

We have a grand vision to transform how society deals with ageing, starting with radically improving the lives of 1 million older adults in the next 3 years. We dream big and speed is of the essence.

We’re all entrepreneurs at Birdie. We’re a flat organization, with no manager to tell you what to do but a community of peers and coaches to support you.

We’re highly collaborative and iterative. Everything we do is transparent to anyone, be it objectives and key results, compensation packages and equity or strategic conversations.

Growing with trust is key. Everyone sets their own development plan and gets support to learn fast, from training to books or coaches. We live by radical candour: we give honest feedback and care deeply & personally about each other.

Join us now to improve the lives of millions!

• ️ Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and we strive to reduce unconscious bias throughout our hiring process. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

We endeavour to embrace diversity, and promote an inclusive environment for all Birdies, and actively work towards this with our Diversity & Inclusion Committee.

If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don’t hesitate to contact us.