--- title: 'Implementation Specialist - Karbon Expert (Contract) at Karbon' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/implementation-specialist-karbon-expert-contract-karbon-sydney-eckdj3er0tm7' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Implementation Specialist - Karbon Expert (Contract) at Karbon - **Company:** Karbon - **Location:** Sydney, Australia - **Posted:** 2026-08-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karbon/jobs/6161012004 ## Job description ## About Karbon Karbon is the global leader in AI-powered practice management software for accounting firms. We provide an award-winning cloud platform that helps tens of thousands of accounting professionals work more efficiently and collaboratively every day. With customers in 40 countries, we have grown into a globally distributed team across the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines. We are well-funded, ranked #1 on G2, growing rapidly, and have a people-first culture that is recognized with Great Place To Work® certification and on Fortune magazine's Best Small Workplaces™ List. ## About the Role Karbon Experts are practitioners turned advisors. Professionals who have lived the day-to-day operations of an accounting firm and now help other firms operationalize those workflows inside Karbon. As a Karbon Expert, you will partner with accounting firms to design, implement, and optimize the workflows that power their day-to-day operations in Karbon. This role combines workflow consulting, implementation leadership, and customer enablement. You will leverage your firsthand experience working within accounting firms and your deep knowledge of Karbon to help customers translate their operational processes into scalable systems within the platform. Karbon Experts play a key role in helping firms successfully adopt Karbon. While the role includes workflow consulting and template design, it also frequently involves leading or supporting end-to-end implementations, guiding customers through onboarding, configuration, training, and adoption to ensure they achieve rapid time-to-value and long-term success. As a Karbon Expert, You Will Be Involved With Workflow Consulting - Consult on firm workflows: Partner with firm leaders and administrators to understand how their firm operates and translate those processes into structured, scalable workflows within Karbon. - Design work templates: Lead customers through the design and optimization of Karbon work templates to ensure processes are efficient, repeatable, and aligned with accounting firm best practices. - Apply practical industry expertise: Leverage your firsthand experience working within accounting firms to provide real-world guidance on how firms operationalize their services, deadlines, and client work inside Karbon. - Guide best practices: Advise customers on how to structure work, manage capacity, track deadlines, and collaborate across teams using Karbon’s platform capabilities. Implementation Delivery - Lead or support implementations: Guide customers through onboarding, configuration, and implementation of Karbon, ensuring a structured and successful transition to the platform. - Manage implementation milestones: Help define project milestones, track progress, and guide customers through key stages of implementation to maintain momentum and accountability. - Facilitate onboarding activities: Lead kickoff sessions, discovery discussions, workflow configuration workshops, and implementation working sessions with firm stakeholders. - Ensure configuration accuracy: Support customers in setting up contacts, work templates, and operational workflows to ensure their Karbon environment reflects their firm's processes. - Drive implementation outcomes: Help customers achieve early wins during implementation by prioritizing key workflows and operational processes that demonstrate immediate value. Training & Adoption - Deliver training sessions: Facilitate training sessions that help firm teams understand, adopt, and confidently use Karbon workflows, templates, and collaboration features. - Support user enablement: Provide practical guidance that helps teams incorporate Karbon into their daily operations and establish consistent working habits. - Drive adoption across the firm: Work with firm leaders and administrators to reinforce adoption and ensure teams are consistently using Karbon to manage their work. Change Management - Guide operational change: Help stakeholders navigate the transition to new workflows and processes enabled by Karbon. - Address adoption challenges: Identify areas where teams may struggle with change and provide practical strategies to support adoption. - Reinforce best practices: Ensure firms adopt scalable processes and working habits that support long-term operational efficiency. Cross-Functional Collaboration - Collaborate internally: Partner with Sales, Implementation, Customer Success, Product, and Support teams to ensure smooth customer handoffs and share insights that improve customer outcomes. - Contribute to continuous improvement: Provide feedback on customer needs, workflow patterns, and implementation challenges to help improve Karbon’s product and services delivery. - Leverage AI to enhance delivery: Use AI tools, including ChatGPT and AI-enabled workflow automation, to support template design, documentation, and workflow optimization. ## About You - You have experience working within an accounting firm and understand how firms manage client work, deadlines, and team collaboration. - You have deep hands-on experience using Karbon in real-world firm environments. - You are comfortable consulting with firm leaders, administrators, and operations teams to design and improve workflows. - You enjoy translating operational processes into structured systems and workflows. - You have experience guiding teams through operational or technology change. - You are confident facilitating meetings, workshops, and training sessions with customer stakeholders. - You are organized and comfortable managing multiple customer engagements or implementation projects simultaneously. - You have strong communication skills and can translate complex ideas into clear, practical guidance. - You are adaptable and thrive in environments where solutions must be tailored to each firm's unique processes. - You are comfortable working remotely and managing your time independently. Bonus points if you have - Experience designing or managing workflow processes inside an accounting firm - Experience leading or supporting software implementations - Background in firm operations, practice management, or workflow optimization - Experience facilitating workflow discovery sessions or process design workshops - Experience delivering software training or onboarding sessions - Experience working in startup or high-growth SaaS environments Why Work at Karbon? - Gain global experience across USA, New Zealand, UK, and Canada - 4 weeks annual leave plus 5 extra "Karbon Days" off a year - Flexible working environment - Work with (and learn from) an experienced, high-performing team - Be part of a fast-growing company that firmly believes in promoting high performers from within - A collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity, invests in development, and provides consistent feedback - Generous parental leave Please be aware that Karbon will only contact you via email from our domain, karbonhq.com. If you receive an email from any other domain, please do not click any of those links. Karbon embraces diversity and inclusion, aligning with our values as a business. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single criteria. If you've made it this far in the job description but your past experience doesn't perfectly align, we do encourage you to still apply. You could still be the right person for the role! We recruit and reward people based on capability and performance. We don’t discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion, physical or cognitive ability, and other diversity dimensions that may hinder inclusion in the organization. Generally, if you are a good person, we want to talk to you. 😛 If there are any adjustments or accommodations that we can make to assist you during the recruitment process, and your journey at Karbon, contact us at people.support@karbonhq.com for a confidential discussion. At this time, we request that agency referrals are not submitted for this position. We appreciate your understanding and encourage direct applications from interested candidates. Thank you! ## About Karbon ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Karbon provides a cloud-based practice management platform that enables accounting firms to streamline work, communication, and collaboration. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, $102.3M total funding across 9 rounds) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided sources ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Accounting and professional services practice management; software development for the accounting ecosystem. - **Target customers**: B2B – primarily accounting firms (from small to mid-sized and enterprise), as well as bookkeeping and tax professionals. - **Mission statement**: "To be the vital operating system for accounting firms worldwide" – providing innovative tools, sharing knowledge, and facilitating connectivity so firms can experience practice excellence. ## Products & Services - **Karbon Practice Management Platform**: A cloud-based, collaborative work and communication platform designed to centralize client work, tasks, emails, and projects. Features include workflow automation, billing and payments, client communication, and reporting. Ranked #1 on G2 for Accounting Practice Management for 18 consecutive quarters. - **Kai (AI Coworker)**: An AI-powered assistant that knows each firm’s clients, work, and team. Can handle tasks, answer questions using real firm data, and automate low-value administrative work. - **Automation & Efficiency Tools**: Includes templated workflows, automated data collection, standardized processes, and integrations with popular accounting ecosystem apps (APIs, ecosystem partnerships). - **Billing & Payments Module**: Integrated billing and payment capabilities to streamline revenue collection within the platform. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric** (Private): $102.3 million in total funding. Annual revenue not publicly disclosed; third-party estimate (LinkedIn) places it at $9.2M (treat as approximate). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not specified in provided sources; known to be backed by venture capital (multiple rounds). - **Growth Signals**: - 288 employees (+36.8% year-over-year, +112 people). - Customers in 34 countries; 33,000 accounting professionals use Karbon daily; 5.5 million jobs completed by customers in 2024. - Average savings of 18.5 hours per employee per week (self-reported in firm usage survey). - Ranked #1 on G2 for 18 consecutive quarters. - Expanding globally with team members in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, and Philippines. ## Competitive Advantages - **Category Leadership**: Consistently the #1 rated practice management software on G2 for over four years – a strong trust signal for buyers. - **Productivity Impact**: Proven, quantified time savings (18.5 hours/week/employee) that directly translate into firm profitability. - **Collaboration-First Design**: Built from the ground up for distributed and hybrid accounting teams, with integrated email, tasks, and client communication in one pane of glass. - **AI Moat**: Development of “Kai” – a firm-specific AI trained on real client data – creates a deepening data network effect and switching cost for users. - **Ecosystem Connectivity**: Strong API and integrations with other accounting tools (e.g., QuickBooks, Xero) and expanding partnerships further embed Karbon into firms’ daily workflows. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-Driven Automation**: Deep investment in AI (Kai) to automate routine admin tasks and provide intelligent insights, making the platform an indispensable “operating system” for firms. - **Global Scale**: Continued expansion into more countries and languages, targeting the large underserved market of accounting firms worldwide. - **Community & Thought Leadership**: Building a community of practice excellence through webinars, best-practice content, and user groups to drive adoption and loyalty. - **Platform Ecosystem**: Expanding API, marketplace, and integrations so Karbon becomes the central hub for firm technology stacks. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: Certified Great Place to Work™; emphasis on inclusive environment, open communication, consistent feedback, and professional development. - **Work Flexibility**: Genuine flexible work – remote, office, or hybrid; trust and autonomy are core, with no monitoring of hours/location. Distributed team across US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, and Philippines. - **Growth Opportunities**: Rapidly growing company (36% headcount increase YoY) with internal mobility paths, mentoring programs, and an Emerging Leaders Program. - **Perks & Benefits** (varies by region): - Paid flexible time off (plus 5 additional “Karbon days”) - Up to 10 wellness days; generous parental leave - Medical, dental, vision coverage (US: includes 401k matching; Australia: 6% KiwiSaver) - Home office equipment budget and internet assistance - Learning and development opportunities - Global Employee Assistance Program - Social club, cultural events, and offsite gatherings. ## Sources 1. [karbonhq.com/about](https://karbonhq.com/about) 2. [karbonhq.com/careers](https://karbonhq.com/careers) 3. [karbonhq.com](https://karbonhq.com/) 4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/karbon](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/karbon) 5. 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