Job description
About Staffbase
We inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication with the first AI-native Employee Experience Platform. Our industry-leading and award-winning agentic AI communications channels - intranet, employee app and email solutions - create engaging experiences that connect and empower employees.
Headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany and New York City, with offices in Berlin, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Prague, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, our diverse team of 750+ employees supports 2,000+ customers—reaching over 16.4 million employees—in transforming their employee experience.
We are proud to be a Unicorn company—privately valued at over $1 billion—demonstrating strong growth, innovation, and lasting impact in our industry. Together, we’re shaping the future of workplace communication.
We are growing our Customer department! We are looking for a Manager, Technical Services in our Minneapolis, NYC, or Toronto office. In this role, you will lead our North American Technical Consulting team.
The team’s primary focus is partnering with customers on technical topics during the onboarding and growth phases, including identity and access management, user provisioning, domain and email setup, and integrations that drive full product adoption.
This is a leadership role, but it requires strong hands on technical depth. You should be able to guide solution design and troubleshoot complex identity, provisioning, email, and API integration issues alongside the team.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead and develop the Technical Consultants in North America, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development
- Own team operating rhythm and capacity planning, including meetings, shifts, responsibilities, and coverage needed to meet SLAs and internal targets
- Partner with cross functional stakeholders to manage complex escalations using structured root cause analysis and prevention, and ensure a clear handoff from the technical onboarding phase into the Customer Success phase
- Own technical delivery quality for NA onboarding and paid technical services
- Serve as the technical escalation point for high complexity issues, guiding structured troubleshooting, clear customer communication, and durable fixes
- Standardize repeatable approaches, playbooks, and templates for common technical workflows, including:
- SSO and access management using SAML 2.0 and OIDC, including certificate management, claims and attribute mapping, and MFA considerations
- User provisioning using SCIM 2.0, including source of truth alignment, group mapping, deprovisioning behaviors, and troubleshooting sync issues
- Email and domain setup, including DNS and authentication fundamentals such as SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and domain verification
- Integrations using REST APIs, including authentication patterns, error handling, and monitoring
- Partner with Implementation Consultants, Sales, and Customer Success to determine feasible technical solutions and reasonable implementation timelines
- Collaborate with Product and Support to identify recurring technical issues and drive improvements in tooling, documentation, and product readiness
- Implement and improve KPIs such as Time to Value, utilization rate, escalation rate, and services margin to grow the technical consulting entity into a revenue generating team
- Build clarity and consistency in how technical services are positioned, delivered, and measured across onboarding and growth engagements
- Contribute to the global consulting framework through close collaboration with teams in EMEA
What you need to be successful
- 5+ years in technical consulting, solutions engineering, implementation engineering, technical onboarding, or a similar customer facing technical role in B2B SaaS, including enterprise customers
- 2+ years leading, managing, or mentoring technical team members in a high accountability environment
- Hands on experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting identity and provisioning solutions, including:
- SAML 2.0 and or OIDC
- At least one major IdP such as Entra ID, Okta, Ping, or ADFS
- SCIM provisioning and directory or group mapping patterns
- Strong fundamentals in email and domain configuration, including SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and DNS
- Experience with integrations using REST APIs and or webhooks, including API authentication patterns such as OAuth2 or token based auth
- Ability to read technical artifacts and guide execution, including logs, API responses, JSON payloads, and basic troubleshooting workflows
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or TypeScript, especially in the context of templates or lightweight front end work
Consulting and leadership skills
- Strong communication, leadership, project management, and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, high growth environment and able to facilitate change
- Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non technical audiences, including customer admins and business stakeholders
- Experienced collaborating cross functionally with Onboarding, Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Support
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace environments as they relate to email authentication and routing concepts
- Experience with middleware and integration tooling such as Workato, Zapier, or Mulesoft
- Experience creating technical playbooks, delivery standards, and repeatable implementation frameworks across a team
What you’ll get
- Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including LTIP (unit-based Long Term Incentive Plan)
- Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of $1608
- Recharge- with 31 vacation days annually (incl. one floating holiday), plus pro rata fully paid Fridays off during August
- Wellbeing - Monthly Wellbeing Allowance $40, from fitness to mental health, hobbies to relaxation
- Support - we’re offering a 401(k) plan with company match and health plans, including dental & vision. Parents can get 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Volunteer Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in Minnesota or New York. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Staffbase’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $110,000 - $130,000 base salary per year. Other rewards may include commissions and program-specific awards. In addition, Staffbase provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, equity, paid parental leave, an employee growth budget, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, wellness days, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
