Manager, Technical Services Engineering (Support)

Required

• A minimum of five(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 rapidly adopt new technologies and to deploy them in a team environment
• 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 highly desirable
• Experience developing KPI’s viewable in management dashboards and scorecards using analytical tools like Tableau
• Experience applying AI in technical support and/or engineering environments, with the ability to lead adoption of AI-native ways of working across the team

Success Measures

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 assignment of 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
• Conduct three (3) face-to-face interactions with marquee customers, either in-person or virtually
• Produce growth plans for the team
• Demonstrate the understanding of the short and long term goals of the Technical Services team and how your team is working toward those objectives