Delivery Manager - Customer Operations

About this role

By bringing together next-gen technology and the finest live data available, Genius Sports is enabling a new era of sports for fans worldwide, delivering experiences that are more immersive, interactive and personalised than ever before. Learn more at geniussports.com.

THE ROLE:

The Delivery Manager is responsible for the successful planning, execution, deployment, and ongoing operational delivery of Genius Sports products and services for customers. The role owns the customer delivery lifecycle from implementation and go-live through post-launch stabilization, seasonal readiness, and the activation of additional products and services. Working closely with Commercial, Product, Engineering, and cross-functional Operations teams, the Delivery Manager serves as the operational delivery lead for assigned customers, ensuring solutions remain healthy, operationally ready, and aligned with customer requirements throughout the partnership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of customer implementations from project initiation through go-live, stabilization, and transition into ongoing operations.

• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, resource plans, budgets, and delivery milestones.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Commercial, Finance, Product, Engineering, Legal, Operations, Supply Chain, and Support, as well as customer teams and external stakeholders, to ensure successful end-to-end customer delivery.

• Serve as the primary operational delivery lead for assigned customers, building trusted relationships and acting as the main point of coordination for delivery-related activities.

• Monitor the operational health and performance of customer deliverables following launch, ensuring implementation commitments continue to be met.

• Lead the cross-functional resolution of complex, customer-impacting operational issues that occur during live service delivery, coordinating internal teams, managing stakeholder communications, driving decision-making, and ensuring timely resolution while minimizing customer impact.

• Coordinate and drive resolution of delivery-related issues by engaging the appropriate internal teams and managing communication with customer stakeholders.

• Lead seasonal operational readiness activities, including planning, testing, operational reviews, training coordination,…