Managing team members - helping Support Engineers achieve their best; developing their technical and soft skills; enabling their growth by supporting them with training/development plans; maintaining team welfare, motivation and minimizing attrition
Assisting with hiring of Support Engineers/Customer Centric Engineers
Accountability for the quality and continuity of services delivered by the team to Ping Identity customers; meeting SLAs, high customer satisfaction and other support targets
Actively participating in escalation management, creation of resolution action plans and briefing of customer and internal Ping Identity stakeholders; good listening and questioning techniques to be able to identify key customer information
Fostering an efficient and collaborative environment across the team and with other parts of the business; demonstrating excellent cross-collaboration with Engineering, Product Management, SREs, Customer Success, Enterprise Security and Sales
Reviewing processes and working practices, providing feedback on their effectiveness to senior leadership and improving them where appropriate
Communicating and prioritizing with the Engineering teams, when required, to facilitate fast resolutions for customer issues
Participating in the weekday, weekend and public holiday on-call Duty Manager rotation as and when required
Monitoring and validating the team's incoming support tickets, ensuring timely updates on progress, status, escalation, and assisting the team where required; maintaining excellent levels of written and verbal communications
Actively manage and balance personal and team workload, and by delegating appropriately to ensure focus is applied to appropriate areas
Ensuring operational/security process and best practices are followed and processes are adhered to, especially with regard to ISO27001/9001 compliance, security incidents and data breaches, providing feedback on their effectiveness and improving them where appropriate
Adopting an 'always-learning' mentality, with a humble attitude about knowledge limitations, and the ability to learn from experience and informal/formal instruction
Reporting on team quality, workload, and performance
Organizing shift rotations and absences, ensuring continual availability of a technically capable Support team
Requirements
Experience in team leadership, supporting and motivating colleagues with their work.
Background in project management, service delivery, or similar relevant areas.
Excellent communication - both verbal and written - support is conducted via email, phone, and video; instant messaging is also regularly used internally.
Detail-oriented, with the ability to calmly manage multiple priorities and tasks simultaneously.
Ability to manage a high-performing team in a high-pressure environment.
Motivated, with a passion for the success of their work and colleagues.
Works well in a team, collaborating and innovating to achieve business goals.
Broad understanding of business models and functions within an organization – ability to connect process flows, looking for gaps and opportunities.
Benefits
Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule
Parental Leave
Progressive Healthcare Options
Retirement Programs
Opportunity for Education Reimbursement
Commuter Offset (Specific locations)
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