Diagnosing and resolving stability and performance-related issues
Advising on design and architecture including global distribution and replication of data to support high availability, low latency, and meeting data sovereignty requirements
Advising on upcoming roadmap features and advocating for the customer in articulating business cases to drive issue resolution
Globally collaborating with peer teams to provide seamless and efficient regional handovers of follow-the-sun issues
Continuously learning and growing skills via participation in training, maintaining industry awareness and development of training to share subject matter expertise more broadly across the team
Increasing case-deflection numbers by contributing to knowledge-base, distributing knowledge to peers and the general MongoDB community
Working on named accounts to build rapport and an in-depth understanding of customer architecture and environment(s) while encouraging expansion of use
Responsibilities
The Technical Services Manager, APAC will have the responsibility to manage and expand a highly skilled Technical Services team. You will work closely with the rest of our Technical Services Management team including equivalent roles in North America and EMEA
You will run local team meetings, and provide regular mentoring and guidance to your team, interface with the field, sales, product engineering and directly with the customer base on critical escalations and issue resolution
Provide technical and management leadership, and work with other local leaders on behalf of the Technical Services organisation
Coordinate with other support centers and leaders around the world ("follow the sun") to ensure quality is maintained and processes are consistent globally
Diagnose and triage problems at various levels of complexity and communicate solutions
Communicate, coordinate and manage escalation of urgent and complex problems with the product engineering teams. As part of the global management team: design, develop, and implement processes, systems, and technology to support and enhance the Technical Services function, including workflow and incident management
Develop and implement practices that measure and improve the effectiveness and performance of the Technical Services function
Contribute to internal technical projects, which can include software development, benchmarking, building documentation and training guides, and providing oversight on other engineers" project work
Lead and/or being involved in Global Strategic Initiatives and attend quarterly summits to coordinate and manage the global goals and initiatives for the organisation
Optional, but encouraged: interact with the community at meet ups and conferences
Qualifications/Requirements
A minimum of five (3-5)years practical experience running a technical support team or organization, including experience coordinating high profile customer escalations, collaborating with other internal engineering departments, and working closely with sales teams
Strong people management skills with a track record of building and managing individuals with a strong focus on customer experience and technical excellence
Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and solve problems in real-time
Ability to lead-by-example with strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
Ability to understand customer business drivers and use cases
A customer advocate who can mitigate and drive issues as appropriate
Is comfortable engaging in hiring decisions, performance management, translating company and the organization’s goals down to team and individual levels
Ability to articulate and calibrate communication style based on audience, from highly technical to ‘executive'
Desirable
Prior work at a database company, specifically in the NoSQL space, or a similar highly concurrent distributed system used in production architectures
Born-in-the-cloud SaaS experience. IaaS or PaaS are highly desirable
Experience developing KPI’s viewable in management dashboards and scorecards using analytical tools like Tableau
Within 30 days
Complete MongoDB’s new hire technical training program; be able to speak confidently about our total portfolio of products
Be able to navigate and articulate our core products at a beginner level
Build initial rapport with the team and gain their trust
Within 60 days
Understand our global follow-the-sun processes and escalation processes
Have formed relationships with escalation managers, CSMs, sales, field, and engineering stakeholders
Have begun conducting regular 1 on1’s with staff as well as other managers within Technical Services
Within 90 days
Take assignments and drive five (5) cases to closure to help learn our internal processes
Provide a roadmap for personal growth in the role and justify the order and prioritization
Have identified areas of efficiency for the team to scale
Can assist with regional escalations and RCA’s when needed
Keep leadership apprised of potentially hot issues and heads-up information related to the team
At 120 days and onward
Produce a roadmap and review with your manager detailing how you will scale your technical knowledge in the product commensurate with role needs
Have an approved plan to globally drive improvement in an area of process or tooling efficiency
Produce growth plans for the team
Demonstrate an understanding of the short and long-term goals of the Technical Services team and how your team is working toward those objectives