Director, Implementation

About Upshop

Upshop is the market leader in Total Store Operations solutions for the Grocery and C-Store markets. We offer an AI-powered, SaaS platform connecting Fresh, Center, eCommerce, and DSD department operations to deliver a simplified, smarter, more connected store experience. Customers running Upshop realize significant improvements in sales, shrink, food safety and sustainability across the entire store. 150+ retail chain accounts trust our software in over 30k+ stores, 9 countries, and 3 continents.
Role Overview

Upshop is seeking a Director of Implementation to lead our Implementation organization and drive successful customer deployments across our Total Store Operations platform.

This leader is responsible for developing and mentoring a high-performing team of Implementation Managers and Consultants while ensuring customers achieve successful business outcomes throughout their implementation journey.

The ideal candidate combines enterprise SaaS implementation leadership with a strong understanding of retail operations, preferably within grocery, convenience, or food retail environments. This individual will serve as a trusted advisor to customers, a mentor to implementation leaders, and a key contributor in scaling Upshop 's Professional Services organization.

The Director of Implementation will also lead the evolution of Upshop 's implementation practices, championing automation, AI-enabled delivery capabilities, and operational excellence initiatives that improve efficiency, accelerate customer outcomes, and create a more scalable and consistent delivery model.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Talent Development

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Implementation Managers, Senior Consultants, and Implementation Consultants.

- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, collaboration, and customer obsession.

- Establish clear performance expectations, coaching programs, career development plans, and succession strategies.

- Drive implementation methodology adoption, process consistency, and operational excellence across the team.

- Partner with Professional Services leadership on organizational planning, hiring, onboarding, and workforce development.

- Develop implementation Centers of Excellence and reusable delivery assets that scale knowledge across the organization.

- Lead the ongoing evolution of Upshop 's implementation methodology, delivery frameworks, and best practices.

- Identify opportunities to leverage automation, AI, and digital tooling to improve implementation efficiency, consistency, and customer outcomes.

- Foster a culture of innovation and adoption of emerging technologies that enhance customer delivery.

- Establish measurable delivery standards and KPIs focused on customer adoption, implementation quality, operational efficiency, and team development.

Customer Engagement & Delivery Leadership

- Serve as an executive sponsor and escalation point for strategic customer implementations.

- Build trusted relationships with customer sponsors, operational leaders, IT stakeholders, and executive teams.

- Ensure customer objectives, adoption goals, and success metrics are clearly defined and achieved.

- Guide implementation teams through complex deployments, organizational change initiatives, testing, launch activities, and post-launch adoption.

- Lead risk identification, mitigation planning, and issue resolution efforts across the implementation portfolio.

- Partner closely with Customer Success to ensure smooth transitions from implementation to long-term customer adoption and value realization.

- Collaborate with Sales and Solution Consulting to ensure customer expectations, implementation strategies, and success criteria are aligned from project inception.

Implementation Excellence

- Own implementation delivery standards, methodologies, playbooks, and best practices across the organization.

- Drive consistency across project planning, discov