Professional Services Project Manager

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We believe in “walking the walk” of our strong core values, which enable us to advance successfully together. Diversity and inclusion are vital parts of our values and beliefs, and we’re proud to foster an environment where every Extreme employee can thrive.

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Professional Services Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for leading and delivering high-quality professional services projects, ensuring strategic customer engagement and satisfaction. This role focuses on project planning, execution, and completion, driving successful outcomes for both the organization and its clients.

Professional Services Responsibilities

• Project Implementation & Management: Oversee the full lifecycle of professional services projects, from initiation to closure, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to scope, budget, and quality standards.
• Customer Engagement: Serve as the primary point of contact for customers throughout the project, building strong relationships and ensuring their needs are met.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as a liaison between sales, customers, and internal teams to facilitate clear communication and alignment of project goals.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, including plans, schedules, status reports, and post-project reviews.
• Team Leadership: Coach and mentor project team members, fostering collaboration and professional growth.
• Issue Escalation: Proactively identify and escalate project risks or customer issues to management for timely resolution.
• Sales Support: Assist sales teams with project scoping, defining deliverables, and supporting pre-sales activities as needed.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the development and refinement of project management processes and best practices.
  
  

Revenue Generating Service Projects: 15%, (reduced to 5% after 1st year )

• Work closely with the customer to ensure customer satisfaction of all professional services account engagements.
• Support the sales team on pre-sales activities such as customer escalations/troubleshooting, customer demonstrations, lab set-up, training/knowledge transfer, sales calls – travel when essential.
• Proactively engage the sales team to create awareness of new product and solution offerings and first-hand account knowledge of future customer growth requirements.
• Support post sales services engagements such as installations and assessments.
• Develop relationships with customers where new product services can be suggested and accordingly passed along to the sales team for potential new sales opportunities. 
  
  

Knowledge Growth and Transfer: 10%  

• Mentor and coach co-workers and peers. Share valuable knowledge openly.
• Develop and maintain Extreme customer operation procedures documentation.
• Maintains current industry trends, competition, and technical and product knowledge with respect to its value to Extreme customers.
  
  

Sports, Venues and Entertainment Accounts Only

• Coordinate Extreme Validated Configurations (EVC) documentation and present to the customer ensuring their networks are consistently optimized to the environment.
• Coordinate and/or provide product training.
• Provide gameday or event support as needed.
• Provide and interrupt post event analytics if subscribed.
  
  

Other duties as assigned: 5%

Travel And Normal Work Hours Will Be

• Monday through Friday – Typical
• Weekends or overnight hours may occasionally be required for exceptional customer needs or critical support situations
• Candidate must be available for critical customer issues nights and weekends
• Occasional maintenance window support at night or weekend
• May be required to work at customer site full or part time
  
  

Location Required:

• Primarily based in Dubai – UAE
• May be required to support the business in other EMEA locations.
  
  

Requirements

• Fluent in English; additional language skills are an advantage.
• Proven experience in project management (6+ years preferred).
• Strong skills in stakeholder management, communication, and problem resolution.
• Ability to manage complex customer interactions and expectations.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and time management skills.
• Willingness to travel and work flexible hours as needed.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
  
  

Desired Skills / Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Project Management certifications (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) are highly desirable.
• Familiarity with project management software and tools.
• Basic understanding of IT environments is a plus
  
  

Extreme Networks Culture

Teamwork: The strength of a team is more powerful than an individual. We work together to drive improved performance. We pull our weight, give others credit for success, push peers to raise their game and celebrate winning as a team!

Transparency: Each of us has a unique view about what is happening, helping or hurting our performance. We can’t change what we can’t see.We must know what’s really going on, Knowledge is Power. So, we share what we see and what is happening, not assuming others know what we know. We shine a light on it.

Candor: We keep it real and embrace difficult conversations in a constructive way. Being honest in all our communication isn’t easy. No sugarcoating and no elephants in the room, being respectful but telling the truth.

Curiosity: Why do we win? Why do we lose? How can we do better? Where should we invest? Asking questions, committing to learn more, looking for best practices, that’s the Extreme way. Being smarter than the competition. Higher intelligence drives higher performance.

Ownership: It’s our company. We have skin in the game. We invest the time and energy to make the changes that get the best outcomes for our customers, shareholders and ourselves. We are accountable.

Inclusion: By challenging dominant voices to listen and non-dominant voices to speak up, we gain valuable perspective that drives better decision making. By fostering diversity regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or religion, we get that perspective and make more intelligent decisions that drive better business outcomes.

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