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MongoDB Manager Technical Services 
India, Haryana, Gurugram 
26923052

24.06.2024
Typical responsibilities of the team include
  • 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