Managing critical, “seconds matter” production down incidents to rapid closure
Overseeing post-incident root cause analyses, including ongoing continuous improvement in broader Technical Services organization to prevent future recurrence
Collaborating with sales, customer success and other field teams on addressing issues which may be impeding expansion of use within an account
Partnering with managers and engineers within the organization to proactively prevent escalations by aligning the right resource to the right activity at the right time
Collaborating with the product management and engineering teams to address issues which necessitate attention from those teams (including advocating for feature requests, where appropriate)
Required
8+ years experience in a highly technical, post-sale role at a software company in either a Customer Support or Professional Services role
Ability to support on-site visits with customers, and competently manage a presentation to a group of up to 30 people
Prior people management experience
Experience managing escalations at scale (multiple escalations per week spanning global resources), as well as managing cross-functional response (sales, support, professional services, engineering)
Desirable
Prior experience as a software engineer is desirable, as MongoDB is a highly technical product and successful candidates typically are comfortable programming, writing queries, and operating in a command shell
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 highly desirable
Experience producing management dashboards and scorecards using tools like Tableau
Success Measures:
Within 30 days
Complete our new hire technical training program; be able to speak confidently about our total portfolio of products
Be able to navigate our core products at a beginner level
Within 60 days
Understands our global follow-the-sun processes and escalation processes
Is able to handle a minor process escalation independently
Begin conducting regular 1on1s with staff of escalation managers as well as other managers within Technical Services
Conducts listening sessions amongst global leaders about areas for improvement in the escalation management program
Within 90 days
Demonstrates ability to handle more complex escalations and emergency situations
Implements effective bi-directional communication between the escalation management team and the Americas management team
At 120 days and onward:
Has a roadmap to continue scaling technical knowledge in the product commensurate with role needs
Conducts an on-site with a marquee customer
Produces growth plans for the team of escalation managers
Begins production of a strategic roadmap for escalation management as an overall program; inventories tools and assets and begins planning requests-for-investment to scale capabilities