Technical Support Manager
Snowflake Support is committed to providing high-quality resolutions to help deliver data-driven business insights and results. We are a team of subject matter experts collectively working toward our customers' success. We form partnerships with customers by listening, learning, and building connections.
Snowflake's Support team is expanding! We are looking for a Technical Support Manager to join our team.
About The Role
As a Technical Support Manager, you will manage a team within our growing Global Technical Support organization. This includes providing leadership to the team's technical staff, interfacing with Engineering on customer-impacting fixes and enhancements, recruiting and developing support staff, and guiding and exceeding team metrics. The successful candidate will also have the responsibility to participate in efforts to develop and implement world-class technical support services, knowledge base content, best practices, and methodologies to deliver unsurpassed service and support.
You possess a positive attitude and outlook and enjoy working with a high-performing, fast-paced team. You are results-oriented, leveraging data, metrics, and open feedback to make operational, tactical, and strategic decisions. You directly interact with customers to address service gaps and are highly focused on ensuring customers have a positive experience.
Your Responsibilities Include :
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead and develop a globally distributed technical support team in a 24 / 7 / 365 SaaS environment
- Perform regular case quality reviews, monitoring for faster situation appraisal, meaningful responses, consistent case progression, empathetic and high-quality communication, and effective solutioning that drives customer confidence and loyalty
- Actively coach employees on in-flight cases and backlog health, providing timely feedback and maintaining a consistent coaching rhythm to improve service quality and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement
- Participate in regular KPI reviews to calibrate team performance and productivity; take action on recurring trends or quality gaps
- Oversee recruitment, training, and professional development of staff across multiple locations
- Ensure employees have clear career pathways and opportunities for advancement
Operational Excellence
Maintain end-to-end ownership of customer incidents, working across Support, Engineering, and Operations teams and engaging customers, as neededDirectly interact with customers to act on feedback and address service gaps for the long term.Model high-quality case handling by leading from the front during critical case escalationsAble to provide operational coverage outside of regular business hours based on business needsImplement data-driven strategies to optimize operational efficiencyExecute organizational objectives and departmental initiativesCross-functional Collaboration
Build partnerships with Product, Engineering, Sales, Solution Engineering, and Professional Services teamsCollaborate with escalation management to ensure the successful resolution of customer issuesFacilitate knowledge sharing and new feature readiness across teamsTransform customer feedback into actionable service improvementsChange Management & Innovation
Identify operational gaps and partner with enablement teams to continuously improve case handling frameworks, tooling, and training resourcesChampion organizational change and new business process implementationFoster a collaborative culture focused on excellence and teamworkParticipate in process improvements and technological advancement initiativesOur Ideal Technical Support Manager Will Have :
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline6+ years of technical support and service management experience; 2+ years in a supervisory role is requiredExperience managing Enterprise support in a large and complex environment in a web-based service and technologyProven capability of delivering on departmental goals and key metricsCustomer-first mindset and a "Get it done" attitudeDemonstrated ability to provide exceptional internal and external customer careAbility to champion change through commitment and support for initiativesAbility to appropriately prioritize and escalate customer issuesAbility to present problem resolution, RCA, and corrective actions to customer-facing teams and customers when warrantedA reputation for trustworthiness, fairness, dependability, and adherence to high ethical standardsStrong analytical and problem-solving skillsStrong technical aptitude and excellent communication and negotiation skills, both oral and writtenExtensive experience in one or more ticketing systems; Salesforce Service Cloud preferredNice To Have :
Industry expertise within data warehousing, data engineering, data science, BI, Data Analytics, and / or Cloud ComputingExperience facilitating solution-building across cross-functional teams and driving projects to achieve a shared goalSnowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
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