Description
Sprout Social is looking to hire a Strategic Services Consultant (Implementations) to the Sales & Customer Experience team.
Why join Sprout’s Sales & Customer Experience team?
The Sales and Customer Experience team shapes how Sprout powers the future of customer connection for today’s most innovative brands. We sell and support the leading social media management platform for businesses, helping organizations unlock the full value of social. Through powerful social intelligence and trusted partnership, we enable teams to build authentic relationships and drive meaningful business impact.
You’ll join a high-performing, collaborative team made up of some of the brightest minds in the industry, working with iconic brands like Campbell's, Salesforce, Airbnb, and Equifax. Just as importantly, Sprout is a place where your growth matters. You’ll have the freedom to shape your career, explore new paths, and build toward what’s next, with a team that’s invested in helping you get there.
What you'll do
- Lead customers' tailored and value-driven implementation experience, running software implementation projects across Sprout’s product suite (Core Platform, Employee Advocacy, and Influencer Marketing).
- Guide customers through a structured implementation lifecycle (Design, Setup, Training, and Validation) - leading onboarding, change management, and technical platform configuration to establish project governance, ensure business continuity, and set up long-term success.
- Support technical implementation projects led by Technical Consultants (such as Service Cloud integrations) and partner with Customer Success Managers to ensure a seamless post-implementation handoff.
- Configure platform settings based on customer requirements, including account architecture, user permissions, tagging taxonomies, and automated message routing rules.
- Leverage our Professional Services technology stack (Kantata, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, and approved AI tools) to manage project timelines and execute high-quality customer deliverables.
- Level up the social sophistication of our customers and team by delivering interactive administrator and end-user product trainings that drive adoption.
- Help operationalize implementation services, standardizing templates, workflows, and enablement materials to improve efficiency across the Professional Services team.
- Ensure timely and accurate compliance with service processes, including project management, schedule management, and time tracking.
What you'll bring
Sprout Social is looking for a Strategic Services Consultant who can help our customers recognize the most value from our Sprout Social suite of solutions. The ideal candidate is the blend of product-savvy and customer-focused, brings strong change management and project management expertise, understands social KPIs, and thrives when guiding enterprise customers through software rollouts.
The minimum qualifications for this role include:
- 4+ years in social media strategy, professional services, software implementation, or project management in SaaS.
- Experience in training external audiences and navigating complex software platforms.
- Deep understanding of software implementation processes, change management, and how project execution ties directly to customer value.
Preferred qualifications for this role include:
- Proven ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Understanding of social networks (in particular X, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn) and social media strategy for large organizations.
- Understanding of sophisticated use cases for social media strategy, such as influencer marketing and social customer care.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with demonstrated executive presence to consult with team leads, VPs, and CMOs.
How you’ll grow
Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
- Experiencing Sprout’s in-depth onboarding, covering everything from our company mission and values, hearing directly from executives and founders, to deep training on our products and the value that Sprout delivers to our customers.
- Making a plan with your manager to set initial priorities, aligning on expectations for your role, planting goalposts for your career, and learning about Sprout’s approach to helping customers see social differently.
- Meeting with your Professional Services peer mentor and gathering learnings to implement into your role.
- Fully understanding our Services offerings, from delivery to project management to reporting.
- Shadowing Strategic Services Consultants on calls to learn relevant customer stories and case studies from the field.
Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
- Building connections with members from other teams through active networking and community building.
- Developing a clear understanding of the entire Sprout platform, its features and use cases, and being able to explain them to customers.
- Getting to know and begin to build working relationships with stakeholders throughout our Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Marketing teams.
- Leading services projects independently and clearly communicate results and deliverables to customers.
Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:
- Your first performance conversation with your manager, where you’ll discuss your accomplishments in your role and work together to build goals for your professional growth.
- Becoming a Sprout Social product expert to confidently speak to ever-changing trends, new product features and platform enhancements to help our customers realize their full potential and accomplish their goals.
Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
- Becoming a go-to resource for the Professional Services team and the larger Sales & Customer Success organization. You will deliver at a high level each day and make an impact outside of just customer work.
- Surprising us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change your team in beneficial ways that we haven’t even considered yet.
Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.
Our Benefits Program
We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product, and culture. We invest in our team with a comprehensive, competitive benefits program:
- Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Premium BCBSIL medical, dental (high/low plans), and vision (Eyemed) insurance for you and your eligible dependents.
- Premium Mental Health Support: Full, free access to Modern Health for you and your dependents, including coaching, therapy sessions, and digital wellness resources.
- Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on your first 6% of contributions (a 3% total match).
- Financial Security: 100% employer-paid Life and Disability insurance for your peace of mind.
- Flexible Paid Time Off: A flexible PTO policy, supplemented with additional company-wide Rest & Recharge days throughout the year.
- Paid Parental Leave: Up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents to support you in expanding your family.
- Annual Lifestyle Stipend: A $1,000 USD annual Lifestyle Spending Account to spend on your physical, mental, and financial well-being.
- Work From Home Support: A one-time $550 USD stipend to set up your home office, plus a monthly $50 USD stipend for internet.
- Giving Back: 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually, plus a $100 annual match for your charitable donations.
- Additional Financial Perks: Access to pre-tax commuter benefits, subsidized child/eldercare (Care.com), discounted pet insurance (Figo), and no-cost personalized financial wellness support through Your Money Line.
*This list is for informational purposes only. Benefit offerings are discretionary and subject to change and do not constitute a contract or guarantee of benefits.
Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.
Our salary ranges reflect the expected earning potential for this role. Individual pay is based on geographic zone, relevant experience, and skills.
Our current hiring range for this role: $77,600.00 – $97,000.00 annually. Offers are made within this range, with opportunities to grow within the broader band based on performance and impact.
We share both our current hiring range and our broader geographic salary bands to provide transparency into our compensation philosophy. This ensures you understand not only your starting potential but also the long-term growth potential available as you progress in your role.
We have two geographic pay zones in the United States:
Zone 1 (New York, California, Washington): $85,400.00 – $128,000.00
Zone 2 (All other US states): $77,600.00 – $116,400.00
These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent, and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.
Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. Because Sprout Social is a federal contractor, we affirmatively recruit individuals with a disability and protected veterans. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report.
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