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Director, Technical Support
Salesforce
Hillsboro, OR, United States
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We are seeking a proven, tactical and strategic Director of Technical Support to lead a team of Support Managers and agents who are tasked with supporting our customers and partners. This individual will lead a highly visible and motivated team and will interact extensively with Support leaders across the rest of the world. The ideal candidates should possess extensive Technical Support leadership experience, preferably supporting global clients in a cloud or software environment, and the selected candidate will be reporting to a Senior Director.
• Work with Sales to understand customer issues and partner with the sales team to improve overall Support processes
• Drive a close engagement with T&P to address customer concerns around escalation processes, response times/problem resolution, establishing SLAs and Top Product Enhancements
• Oversee strategic projects to improve customer self service
• Understand technical training needs and help drive priorities with our internal training strategy
• Resource, organize, and facilitate a team of Support agents at both in-house and outsourced locations in providing high quality, accurate and timely customer support.
• Actively participate in setting team/department objectives & ensure they are met.
• Work with Sales, Technology and CSG organization to continue to improve the overall support experience.
• Manage key metrics which will measure the effectiveness of the team in meeting key goals such as Customer satisfaction, Customer Loyalty and productivity. Continuously seek to improve processes and working practices to ensure that these goals are achieved, and that Salesforce remains at the forefront of the industry in the provision of customer service.
• Act as an escalation point for high severity customer issues that arise from within the team; directly from customers; or from other Salesforce functions.
• Work pro-actively with Peer Managers to schedule staff, plan training activities, and other non-customer facing activities to meet Regions Capacity requirements.
• Analyze Customer trends and adopt Knowledge Centric Support practices to ensure Knowledge base articles are promptly written resulting in increased First Contact Closure and Customer
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
• BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years experience in a technical support environment, handling highly complex issues.
• 5+ years at the Management level, managing managers in addition to individual contributors, providing partner support to large enterprise customers.
• Previous experience directing and maximizing the benefits of collaborating global teams.
• Practical experience managing multiple support teams, including outsourcers, with a strong knowledge of all technical support functions and related engineering responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of operational infrastructure, metrics, processes, systems and tools for running a Worldwide Support organization focused on working via Outsourced partner
• Must be capable of dealing confidently and professionally at executive level internally and at customers.
• Proven ability to manage complex processes and drive continuous process improvement.
• Excellent project management skills, including demonstrated ability to manage projects across teams where influencing skills are required.
• Ability to respond to high-profile, high-impact customer/product escalations in a way that drives customer loyalty.
LEADERSHIP QUALITIES:
• PASSION: Passionate about Customer Success
• BEGINNERS MIND: Always learning, approaches each interaction with open mind, great listener and hands-on
• URGENCY: Ability to move fast and drive business value and results
• OHANA: Embodies Aloha culture: A team player that everyone enjoys working with and has a generous heart
• TRUST: Trust the company's core values
• ADAPTABLE: Excels in high levels of uncertainty and change
ABOUT SALESFORCE:
Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes's "World's Most Innovative Company" five years in a row and one of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" eight years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for "family") made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.
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