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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 values are key to our approach and success in delivering world-class Support. Putting customers first, acting with integrity, owning initiative and accountability, and getting it done are Snowflake core values and are reflected in everything we do.
Snowflake’s Support team is expanding! We are looking for a < to join our team.
As a Senior 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 development of support staff, and guiding and exceeding team metrics. The successful candidate will also have responsibility for leading efforts in developing and implementing world-class technical support services, knowledge base content, best practices, and methodologies to deliver unsurpassed service and support.
Ability to manage a support organization working across 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shifts
Be a point of escalation for all shifts
Have team responsibility for delivering excellent technical support in a 24x7x365 SaaS environment
Be responsible for hiring, development, training, and skills management of staff that includes both individual contributors and managers, located across multiple office locations
Have end-to-end ownership of customer incidents working across Support, Development, and Operations teams
Navigate and steer difficult situations towards positive outcomes
Make data-driven decisions to improve operational quality and efficiency
Manage the team toward key customer success metrics - SLA, CSAT, Time to Resolution (TTR), Knowledge Contribution, etc.
Perform case quality reviews and coach team members toward driving improved customer experience
Foster and grow relationships across product and engineering functions for knowledge building, incident engagement, new feature readiness, and product feedback
Establish good working relationships with customer-facing teams (sales, professional services, etc)
Turn customer feedback into actionable steps to improve support service delivery
Partner with the escalation management team to drive satisfactory resolution of customer escalations
Assess and evaluate processes, technology, and team skill sets to identify gaps and partner with enablement teams on opportunities for advancement
Be the agent of change for new business processes, technology, transformation
Lead by example to cultivate and maintain a culture built on teamwork and collaboration
Able to provide operational coverage outside of regular business hours at short notice when needed
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent discipline
10+ years of technical support and service management experience; 6+ years in a supervisory role is required
Experience managing Enterprise support in a large and complex environment in a web-based service and technology
A customer-first mindset and demonstrated ability to provide exceptional internal and external customer care
Proven capability of delivering on departmental goals and key metrics
Ability to present problem resolution, root cause analysis, and corrective actions to customer facing teams and customers when warranted
A reputation for trustworthiness, fairness, dependability, and adherence to high ethical standards
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong technical aptitude and excellent communication and negotiation skills, both oral and written
Extensive experience in one or more ticketing systems; Salesforce Service Cloud preferred
Experience supporting a database, data warehouse, or data platform technology in a SaaS environment
Experience facilitating solution-building across cross-functional teams and driving complex projects to achieve a shared goal.
Please do not include any sensitive personal information about yourself or others in your application or application materials (e.g., resume, cover letter), including but not limited to, health information, credit information, references to parentage and ethnic or tribal origin, and genetic information.
Snowflake 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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