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Lead a Global Team. Drive Operational Excellence. Power Partner Success.
Ready to make one of the best career decisions of your career?
Actionstep is growing rapidly across North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, helping more than 60,000 legal professionals run smarter, more efficient firms through our market-leading legal practice management platform.
As our partner ecosystem continues to expand globally, we're looking for an experienced operational leader to take ownership of a critical function at the heart of our services organisation.
This is a rare opportunity to lead a global team responsible for enabling, supporting and scaling one of Actionstep's most important growth channels - our Actionstep Certified Partner (ACP) ecosystem.
If you're a people-first leader who thrives on building high-performing teams, improving operational excellence and driving accountability across complex stakeholder environments, we'd love to hear from you.
The Role at a Glance:
Manager, Partner Operations
Remote - United States
$140,000 - $150,000
Plus: Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage, 401(k) with Company Match, Flexible Working, Generous PTO, Birthday Off, Team Events, Training & Development
Reporting to: Senior Services Leadership Team
Company: Global Legal Practice Management SaaS Platform
Pedigree: Fast-Growing Legal Technology Business Serving 60,000 Legal Professionals Globally
Culture: One Team | Customer First | Accountability | Continuous Improvement | Dare to be Different
Your Background / Skills: Partner Operations, Delivery Operations, Professional Services, Team Leadership, Escalation Management, Operational Governance, SaaS, Stakeholder Management
Who We Are:
We think lawyers are awesome.
Lawyers play a critical role in almost every milestone in life and business. We believe they deserve the freedom and technology to do their best work.
That's why Actionstep exists.
As one of the fastest-growing legal technology businesses in the world, we're helping law firms modernise operations, improve efficiency and deliver better client experiences through our cloud-based practice management platform.
With a growing global customer base, a highly engaged partner ecosystem and ambitious growth plans ahead, there's never been a more exciting time to join Actionstep.
Where You Come In:
Our Actionstep Certified Partner network plays a critical role in delivering successful customer implementations and driving long-term growth.
As Manager, Partner Operations, you'll lead the global team responsible for enabling, supporting, reporting on and operationally managing that ecosystem.
You'll oversee the day-to-day execution of Partner Operations, ensuring delivery consistency, operational readiness, partner accountability and effective escalation management across a growing international network.
This is a leadership role that combines people management, operational governance, stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement.
You'll work closely with Partner Success, Services, Product, Sales and Leadership teams to ensure partners have the tools, support and operational frameworks needed to succeed.
What Your Day Might Look Like:
You're a confident operational leader who enjoys helping teams succeed while creating structure, accountability and clarity in fast-moving environments.
You'll likely bring:
5 years' experience within delivery operations, services operations, implementation management, partner operations or similar customer-facing operational leadership roles
If you're excited by the opportunity to lead global teams, improve operational excellence and help shape the future of partner success within a fast-growing SaaS business, we'd love to hear from you.
Your Experience / Background / Previous Roles May Include:
Partner Operations Manager, Services Operations Manager, Implementation Manager, Delivery Manager, Customer Operations Manager, Professional Services Manager, Partner Success Manager, Operational Excellence Manager, Channel Operations Manager, SaaS Operations Manager.
Application notice... We take your privacy seriously. As you might expect you may be contacted by email, text or telephone. Your data is processed by our talent partner RR (Recruitment Revolution) on the basis of their legitimate interests in fulfilling the recruitment process. Please refer to their Data Privacy Policy & Notice on their website for further details.
Ready to make one of the best career decisions of your career?
Actionstep is growing rapidly across North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, helping more than 60,000 legal professionals run smarter, more efficient firms through our market-leading legal practice management platform.
As our partner ecosystem continues to expand globally, we're looking for an experienced operational leader to take ownership of a critical function at the heart of our services organisation.
This is a rare opportunity to lead a global team responsible for enabling, supporting and scaling one of Actionstep's most important growth channels - our Actionstep Certified Partner (ACP) ecosystem.
If you're a people-first leader who thrives on building high-performing teams, improving operational excellence and driving accountability across complex stakeholder environments, we'd love to hear from you.
The Role at a Glance:
Manager, Partner Operations
Remote - United States
$140,000 - $150,000
Plus: Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage, 401(k) with Company Match, Flexible Working, Generous PTO, Birthday Off, Team Events, Training & Development
Reporting to: Senior Services Leadership Team
Company: Global Legal Practice Management SaaS Platform
Pedigree: Fast-Growing Legal Technology Business Serving 60,000 Legal Professionals Globally
Culture: One Team | Customer First | Accountability | Continuous Improvement | Dare to be Different
Your Background / Skills: Partner Operations, Delivery Operations, Professional Services, Team Leadership, Escalation Management, Operational Governance, SaaS, Stakeholder Management
Who We Are:
We think lawyers are awesome.
Lawyers play a critical role in almost every milestone in life and business. We believe they deserve the freedom and technology to do their best work.
That's why Actionstep exists.
As one of the fastest-growing legal technology businesses in the world, we're helping law firms modernise operations, improve efficiency and deliver better client experiences through our cloud-based practice management platform.
With a growing global customer base, a highly engaged partner ecosystem and ambitious growth plans ahead, there's never been a more exciting time to join Actionstep.
Where You Come In:
Our Actionstep Certified Partner network plays a critical role in delivering successful customer implementations and driving long-term growth.
As Manager, Partner Operations, you'll lead the global team responsible for enabling, supporting, reporting on and operationally managing that ecosystem.
You'll oversee the day-to-day execution of Partner Operations, ensuring delivery consistency, operational readiness, partner accountability and effective escalation management across a growing international network.
This is a leadership role that combines people management, operational governance, stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement.
You'll work closely with Partner Success, Services, Product, Sales and Leadership teams to ensure partners have the tools, support and operational frameworks needed to succeed.
What Your Day Might Look Like:
- Leading, coaching and developing a global team of Partner Operations Specialists
- Driving operational consistency, communication standards and execution excellence across the function
- Managing team priorities, workload allocation and resource coordination
- Acting as a senior escalation point for partner, customer and delivery-related challenges
- Supporting partner accountability, delivery risk management and implementation success
- Building strong relationships across partner organisations and internal stakeholder groups
- Maintaining visibility across onboarding activities, active engagements, escalations and operational performance
- Identifying process improvements, operational gaps and scaling opportunities
- Supporting governance activities, operational reviews and reporting across the Services organisation
- Working cross-functionally to improve onboarding effectiveness, partner experience and delivery coordination
- Helping ensure the partner ecosystem scales successfully alongside continued global growth
You're a confident operational leader who enjoys helping teams succeed while creating structure, accountability and clarity in fast-moving environments.
You'll likely bring:
5 years' experience within delivery operations, services operations, implementation management, partner operations or similar customer-facing operational leadership roles
- Proven experience leading and developing operational, customer-facing or partner-facing teams
- Strong experience managing escalations, operational risk and complex stakeholder environments
- Ability to balance relationship management with accountability and execution
- Experience coordinating operational delivery across multiple concurrent projects and stakeholders
- Excellent communication, leadership and organisational skills
- Strong problem-solving capability and operational judgement
- Ability to operate independently while collaborating effectively across global teams
- Experience working within partner-led implementation or channel delivery models
- Experience supporting globally distributed teams
- Familiarity with implementation governance, delivery enablement or operational readiness programmes
- Experience within SaaS, legal technology or professional services environments
- Competitive salary
- Robust medical, dental and vision plans
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible remote-first working
- Generous PTO
- Your birthday off
- Regular team-building events
- Ongoing training and professional development
- Opportunity to work alongside talented colleagues across North America, Europe and APAC
- The chance to play a key role in scaling one of legal tech's most exciting growth stories
If you're excited by the opportunity to lead global teams, improve operational excellence and help shape the future of partner success within a fast-growing SaaS business, we'd love to hear from you.
Your Experience / Background / Previous Roles May Include:
Partner Operations Manager, Services Operations Manager, Implementation Manager, Delivery Manager, Customer Operations Manager, Professional Services Manager, Partner Success Manager, Operational Excellence Manager, Channel Operations Manager, SaaS Operations Manager.
Application notice... We take your privacy seriously. As you might expect you may be contacted by email, text or telephone. Your data is processed by our talent partner RR (Recruitment Revolution) on the basis of their legitimate interests in fulfilling the recruitment process. Please refer to their Data Privacy Policy & Notice on their website for further details.
Salary : $140,000 - $150,000