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Escalation Manager - Night Shift (Thu to Mon from 10 pm to 7 am IST)
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Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
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 an Escalation and Incident Manager to join our team and help our customers achieve their business goals by providing outstanding service and support to our most critical customers in their most important time of need.
As an Escalation Manager, you enjoy working with a high-performing and fast-paced team with a high degree of tact, patience, and skill under pressure. You are results-oriented, leveraging data, metrics and open feedback to make operational, tactical decisions toward resolving escalations and incidents. You possess a positive attitude and outlook and work with a high degree of integrity, accountability, attention to detail, planning expertise, and execution. This is a Hybrid role i.e. 3 days working in Office.
YOU WILL:
- Coordinate efforts to resolve critical customer issues, major interruptions, and client-impacting events
- Collaborate with Snowflake on-call engineers, monitor online activity data for multiple Snowflake Services to identify Service disruptions
- Coordinate and engage with other teams such as Sales, Professional Services, Support, and Engineering to effectively resolve escalated situations
- Develop strong partnerships internally with Sales, Services, Support, and Engineering
- Work with a global mindset as part of a team of Escalation Managers
- Work with Engineering and Product Management on the resolution of specific issues that may arise as blockers to customer progress
- Demonstrate strong judgment regarding escalation management and problem mitigation, as well as the ability to make timely decisions from both business and technical perspectives
- Effectively advocate for required solutions to provide the best customer experience
- Understand both proactive and reactive escalation management practices and how to analyze and apply data to a decision making process
- Understand proactive and reactive data points to develop a plan of action for our customers
- Work with a team to maintain and update the cloud services page for customers
- Manage customer-facing communications for Escalations as well as the development and execution of a “Get Well Plan”, understanding all aspects of the situation and develop a clear scope and get well plan
- Maintain disciplined and regular communications within accounts while building credibility through timely action and responsiveness during the account escalation
- Effectively communicate critical issue status (both verbally and written) to executive staff, sales teams, and other involved parties
- Utilize your contextual interpretation and writing skills to effectively summarize pages of information into concise and readable paragraphs
- Understand and translate technical information and issues into business cases, impacts, and risks that can easily be interpreted by the customer
- Have excellent abilities in office applications (Gsuite preferred) for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations
- Meet deliverable timelines based on pre-scheduled activities and events, such as customer, team, and executive updates
- Utilize business and technical skills to effectively manage customer escalations, coordinate meetings, calls, and deliverables, and interpret trend/regression patterns
- Participate in weekend on-call rotation
- Review & analyze Customer health trends to pro-actively identify and resolve issues before the customer escalates
- Co-ordination with all internal subject matter experts and stakeholders, acting as the primary decision point for all active customer activities pertaining to the account escalation
- Customer champion, a resource specifically focused on returning the customer environment to a stable state and the customer to a state of satisfaction with Snowflake, resulting in the continued growth of the account
OUR IDEAL ESCALATION MANAGER WILL HAVE:
- B.S. or M.S degree in CS, MIS or equivalent discipline
- Technical competency in cloud environments, data warehouse architectures and software development methods
- 3+ years of working as an Escalation Manager in a Support environment with related experience with a proven track record of delivering business value and improvement
- 2+ years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or a private cloud environment.
- 2+ years of experience managing enterprise customer relationships in Technical Support, Technical Support or Business Operations, or other Support Delivery based organizations
- Expertise in business productivity applications (Microsoft Office, GSuite) as well as CRM applications (Salesforce preferred)
- Excellent verbal, written, communication, and active & receptive listening skills
- Incredibly high levels of emotional intelligence (EQ), empathy, proactivity, and the ability to advocate for both clients and internal teams alike, continuously striving for mutually-beneficial solutions.
- Successful experience working, collaborating, and establishing relationships with leadership, colleagues, and customers
- The ability to adapt, take initiative, be flexible, and learn quickly in a dynamic environment
- Excellent teaming skills, able to work with virtual and global cross-functional teams
- ITIL certification v3/v4 or an indepth understanding of the ITIL framework is a must
- Technical competence in Service/Platform/Infrastructure(SaaS/PaaS/IaaS) architectures, application, use and management
- Excellent verbal, written, communication and receptive listening skills
- High levels of emotional intelligence (EQ), empathy, proactivity, and the ability to advocate for both clients and internal teams alike, continuously striving for mutually-beneficial solutions
- Successful experience working, collaborating, and establishing relationships with leadership, colleagues, and clients
- Ability to adapt, to be flexible, and to learn quickly in a dynamic environment
- Strong teaming skills, and able to work with virtual and global cross-functional teams
- Excellent judgment regarding escalation management and problem mitigation, as well as the ability to make timely decisions from both business and technical perspectives.
- An understanding of both proactive and reactive escalation management practices and how to analyze and apply data to a decision making process.
- Excellent verbal, written, communication, and active & receptive listening skills
- Incredibly high levels of emotional intelligence (EQ), empathy, proactivity, and the ability to advocate for both clients and internal teams alike, continuously striving for mutually-beneficial solutions.
- Successful experience working, collaborating, and establishing relationships with leadership, colleagues, and customers
- The ability to adapt, take initiative, be flexible, and learn quickly in a dynamic environment
- Excellent teaming skills, able to work with virtual and global cross-functional teams
- ITIL certification v3/v4 or an indepth understanding of the ITIL framework is a must