Founding EMEA Implementation Consultant - SaaS Audit in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Founding EMEA Role — High Impact, High Visibility: This is the first Implementation Consultant for Fieldguide's EMEA region. That means you'll directly shape processes, playbooks, and team structure — rare ownership for a consultant-level role. It's a strong accelerator for those aiming toward Senior IC, Implementation Manager, or Director tracks within 2–3 years.
Compensation: No salary is disclosed. For a mid-level Implementation Consultant / Customer Onboarding role at a VC-backed US SaaS startup in the UK, market rates typically range from £55,000–£80,000 depending on experience, with potential equity upside given the early-stage nature (Y Combinator, Goldman Sachs, Bessemer backing signals a credible exit path).
Skills You'll Build:
- Enterprise SaaS onboarding and implementation methodology
- Risk advisory domain knowledge (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST) — highly marketable in cybersecurity and compliance sectors
- Cross-functional stakeholder management at executive level
- Customer success metrics, value realization frameworks, and ROI documentation
Green Flags: Strong investor backing, explicit remote-first culture, emphasis on work-life balance, and a stated commitment to diversity and inclusion. The company's mission (audit automation) is in a growing, defensible niche.
Potential Red Flags: No salary transparency, and as the first EMEA hire, you may face ambiguity around support structures, processes, and tooling. Strong self-starters will thrive; those needing heavy support may find it challenging.
About Us
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We're based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.
We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide's team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.
As an early stage start-up employee, you'll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners' lives easier by bringing together up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.
About the Role
As an Implementation Consultant at Fieldguide, you will be an integral member of our go-to-market team, working directly with our Customer Success and greater Go-To-Market teams to make significant impacts on our customers' adoption of our platform.
Reporting into our Director of Implementation, you will provide new Fieldguide customers with seamless onboarding experiences built to maximize our customers' return on investment quickly. Our unique onboarding program, Fieldguide Accelerator, is designed to be best-in-class and prioritize quick time to value. You will be responsible for delivering this program to new Fieldguide customers.
This is the founding Implementation Consultant role for Fieldguide's EMEA region — you will play a foundational part in building out our onboarding function internationally.
What You'll Do
Build trust with customers. Maintain regular engagement cadences with customers through all phases of their implementation, from sales handoff to value realization.
Guide growth. Create a plan that outlines the customer's goals with implementing Fieldguide and activities needed to meet those goals. Maintain regular reviews during their onboarding process to track progress and adapt plans where necessary.
Build champions. Cultivate customer champions and grow their Fieldguide knowledge.
Advocate for the customer. Be the link between the customer and Fieldguide's Engineering, Product, Design; Customer Enablement; Sales; and other cross-functional teams. Communicate customer needs internally to help shape the product roadmap, internal processes, and future onboarding iterations.
Mitigate risks. Be proactive in identifying success risks and develop decisive action plans to mitigate them.
Measure and document progress. Document the value Fieldguide provides to our customers by detailing customer case studies, new use cases and success metrics. Track customer progress against their adoption map, and plot customer value realization over time.
About You
At least 2+ years of experience delivering risk advisory or technology risk engagements, including SOC 1/2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA, or NIST assessments
AND/OR 3+ years in technology consulting, customer onboarding, implementation, or similar, at a top management consulting firm (preferred) or high-growth startup. Strong consulting skills helping complex organizations succeed, with proven results driving business value for customers as their trusted advisor.
You are a team player, and you are mission-first. You're joining a hard-working team that trusts each other deeply.
Project management proficiency with proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple customers, projects and requests with little direct oversight. You are able to professionally problem-solve while juggling several customers.
Executive presence and ability to influence change. Demonstrated history of communicating effectively with customers and across internal teams.
Bias towards action. You take ownership of projects end-to-end and see them through to completion, with minimal direction or oversight.
More about Fieldguide
Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:
Fearless — Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.
Fast — Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection.
Lovable — Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences.
Owners — Execute & run the business with ownership.
Win-win — Create mutual value & earn trust for life.
Inclusive — Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.
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