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First Due

All-in-one public-safety operations platform

Implementation Manager - Core

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in USA$100k

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience managing customer-facing SaaS implementations, or at least 3 years plus a master's degree, including a portfolio of multiple concurrent projects.
  • Strong public safety industry knowledge, including how fire, emergency medical services, or law enforcement agencies operate and make decisions.
  • Demonstrated ownership of project plans, timelines, risk management, escalation recovery, and scope discipline, including change orders, on projects with multiple internal contributors.
  • Proven ability to drive delivery outcomes through matrixed contributors without direct reporting authority.
  • Working data literacy, including reading record counts, spotting bad mappings, and assessing integration and migration risk.
  • Experience with implementation project management tooling.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft 365, including Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and Excel.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, including concise, actionable follow-ups, actionable status reporting for executive stakeholders, and delivering bad news early with a recommended path.
  • Must live in the United States and be authorized to work for any US employer.
  • Must successfully pass a criminal background check.

Responsibilities

  • Own a portfolio of roughly 40 or more concurrent Core implementations from contract signature through go-live and handoff to Customer Success, consistently keeping planned duration below the team goal.
  • Keep Rocketlane, the system of record, current with plans, timelines, milestones, task status, owners, and dates; complete documentation and exit gates on time.
  • Lead customer kickoffs by setting clear expectations, correcting unrealistic assumptions, and closing with agreed actions, owners, and dates; adapt the agenda to each agency's politics and readiness based on Discovery.
  • Run at least bi-weekly progress check-ins on new acquisition projects and monthly check-ins on upsells, using each to identify and remove blockers.
  • Tailor each plan to the agency's operational reality, including shift patterns, governance and approval cycles, budget calendars, and go-live blackout windows.
  • Own multi-module sequencing, phasing, and dependency decisions across the platform.
  • Direct and sequence work across Implementation Consultants, Technical Services, Integrations, Support, and Product, securing commitments on dates without direct authority.
  • Surface product gaps, process gaps, communication silos, and methodology friction to leadership with supporting specifics and a proposed fix, and help own internal improvement efforts.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working to billable utilization targets in a professional services organization.
  • PMP, CAPM, or an equivalent project management credential.
  • Experience with fire, emergency medical services, or law enforcement records management, CAD systems, or emergency services software.
  • Working knowledge of Salesforce.
  • Experience in a high-growth SaaS environment with evolving methodology and tooling.

About the Company

First Due

All-in-one public-safety operations platform

First Due provides a single software platform for public safety agencies that unifies and modernizes operations across Fire, EMS, and Law Enforcement. Its main products include a full suite of tools: pre-incident planning, mobile response, electronic patient care reporting (ePCR), NERIS and NEMSIS-compliant reporting, scheduling, fire prevention and inspections, asset and inventory management, and community engagement. The platform is integrated so agencies can access all these features in one place, reducing the need for multiple separate systems. Compared with competitors, First Due differentiates itself by offering a comprehensive, end-to-end solution designed specifically for public safety across multiple disciplines, with thousands of customers and hundreds of thousands of users across the U.S. and Canada. The company aims to help agencies streamline day-to-day operations, improve efficiency, and deliver better service to the communities they protect.

Company size
Not listed
Company stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding
$355M
Headquarters
Miami, FL
Founded
2016

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