Team Lead, Professional Services

Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work. Our vision: A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together. About the Role: We are seeking an experienced and inspiring Team Lead to join our Professional Services team, a critical part of our Customer Success & Innovations (CSI) organization. In this role, you will combine hands-on consulting expertise with leadership responsibilities, guiding a team of Professional Services and Technical Consultants while actively driving customer deployments yourself. You’ll work alongside some of the best consulting minds in the industry, shaping our customers’ initial experience and ensuring their long-term success from day one. Please note that this job role has shift times from 4pm - 2am IST. Your Impact: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Professional Services Consultants and Technical Consultants, providing guidance on deployments, best practices, and professional growth. Drive end-to-end customer engagements, including Discovery, Design, Configuration, Rollout, and Adoption Monitoring—both individually and through your team. Oversee the successful completion of customer engagements while ensuring critical success metrics such as project profitability, solution feasibility, timelines, and customer satisfaction are met. Collaborate with Sales to scope complex engagements and present the value of Wrike’s Professional Services to prospective clients. Advocate for customers by gathering feedback and assisting in the prioritization of product features and identifying short-term solutions to challenges. Ensure smooth handoffs between teams by working closely with Sales, Support, and Product teams. Track and maintain accurate client records and milestones using Wrike, Salesforce, and other systems. Contribute to process improvements, helping scale best practices across the Professional Services team to enhance efficiency and quality. Your Qualifications: Proven Leadership & Hands-on Expertise: A track record of successfully guiding teams (4+ people) in a consulting environment while remaining hands-on in project delivery. Consulting & Project Management Prowess: 8+ years in project management, consulting, or customer-facing roles. Formal certifications (PMP, Agile/Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, etc.) are a plus. Deep Industry Knowledge: Expertise in relevant areas like Professional Services Automation (PSA), Customer Success, or PMO/EPMO. Integration & API Familiarity: Experience working with integrations, APIs, and technical solutioning to help customers leverage Wrike within their broader tech ecosystem. A Coach's Mindset: You enjoy mentoring, nurturing junior team members, and fostering a culture of continuous growth. Exceptional Communication & Influence: The ability to engage executive stakeholders, manage complex client relationships, and present with confidence and credibility. A Problem-Solving & Analytical Approach: You’re curious, data-informed, and driven to find the best solutions for customers. A Customer-Centric & Agile Style: You’re empathetic, adaptable, and thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments. Superb Organizational Skills: The ability to balance multiple priorities for yourself and your team while maintaining a high bar for accountability and success. Standout Qualities: Exceptional Communication & Influence The ability to engage executive stakeholders, manage complex client relationships, and present with confidence and credibility Team Dynamics: Collaboration: You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams and senior leadership. Growth: You’ll refine your leadership skills while staying hands-on with cutting-edge deployments. You’ll shape customer success and team growth, supporting a diverse portfolio of AMS, EMEA, and APAC customers. Our Work Style: Autonomy & Flexibility: You’ll have ownership over your engagements while leading by example and flexible schedule. This role offers a blended working model, allowing you to work from the office 3 days per week and remotely for the rest. To best support both US, EMEA and APAC customers, this role offers flexible working hours designed to create meaningful overlap between consultants supporting various time zones, rather than a fixed late-evening schedule. Why Join Wrike? 18 calendar days of paid vacation (12 days of National & Festival holidays (10 fixed, 2 flexible)) Sick Leave Compensation (5 Paid Uncertified Sick Days) Menstrual Leave: Twelve (12) days per calendar year. Women employees are eligible for up to 1 day of menstrual leave per month. Parental Leave: 26 Weeks Maternity / 4 Week Paternity 2 Volunteer Days Group Medical Insurance (Employees + Dependents) Term Life Insurance (Rs 50,00,000) Personal Accident Insurance (Rs 50,00,000) Monthly Broadband / Internet Reimbursement (INR 1500) Hybrid Working Model + Complimentary Lunch & Snacks What’s Next? Interview with a Recruiter Technical interview Cultural interview Your recruitment buddy will be Tripti Sachan , Senior Recruiter #LI-TS1 Who Is Wrike and Our Culture We’re a team of innovators and creators who solve the complex work problems of today and tomorrow. Hybrid work mode Wrike promotes a hybrid model for team members near our office hubs in San Diego, Prague, Dublin, Nicosia, and Tallinn, with 2–3 in-office days per week to foster collaboration and teamwork. This work mode supports our culture of collaboration and solving problems fast to deliver business outcomes and win together. Our persona 💡 Smart: We love what we do, and we’re great at it because this is our domain. Our combined knowledge in this space is unmatched. 💚 Dedicated: We get up every day focused on helping our customers win. We’re committed to helping our teammates win, too! 🤗 Approachable: We're friendly, easy to get along with, considerate, and helpful. Our culture and Values 🤩 Customer-Focused We care about our customers. We understand the customer journey, experience, and value derived from Wrike. Decision-making and action-taking are done with the customer in mind. 🤝 Collaborative We work as one and win together, each bringing unique strengths that contribute to diversity of thought for better outcomes. Leveraging our own work management platform, we foster an environment of creative collaboration and shared achievement. 🎨 Creative We strive to succeed through continuous innovation. It’s our pursuit of novel concepts that helped us create a market category. We continue to cultivate a workplace that fosters creative thinking as a means of transcending conventional boundaries and empowers us to break new ground to deliver extraordinary work management solutions. 💪 Committed We believe in ownership at all levels of the organization, by owning workflows from start to finish. Each member of our team is an integral part of this commitment, establishing work as a platform for personal growth and transformation, as well as collective success and growth. Check out our LinkedIn Life Page, Company culture page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike.