Manager, Technical Support Engineering

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Bangalore, India, India

Salesforce is seeking a Manager, Technical Support Engineering to lead a global, customer-focused team supporting their AI CRM platform. The role involves managing engineers, driving strategic alignment, empowering employee success, cultivating talent, championing the customer, ensuring operational excellence, collaborating cross-functionally, and delivering business intelligence reports. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience, including 2+ years in management, and solid functional knowledge of the Salesforce application.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead High-Performance Teams: Manage a support team to achieve business objectives including the attainment of targets for customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, service levels, resolution time, and project deadlines.
  2. Drive Strategic Alignment: Set team goals in alignment with Global Support objectives. Assist direct reports in the definition and attainment of individual goals.
  3. Empower Employee Success: Ensure that direct reports have the resources, information, and processes necessary to deliver effective technical solutions to our customers. Ensure the delivery of high-quality technical and soft-skills training for direct reports.
  4. Cultivate Talent: Deliver performance reviews for all direct reports and provide regular feedback on performance in terms of agreed-upon performance and employee development goals. Serve as a manager, mentor, and escalation point for Support employees; Build credibility and trust within the support group.
  5. Champion the Customer: Communicate effectively to customers when representing Global Support in meetings with customers. Advocate for customers and define ways to continually add value to the customer experience.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of overall professional experience
  • at least 5 years in a technical support role
  • 2+ years managing technical support professionals
  • Solid, functional salesforce.com application knowledge
  • Experience with support tools and phone systems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to successfully communicate and coordinate with departments across the organization
  • Ability to understand and escalate issues efficiently and appropriately
  • Demonstrated strong work ethic and advanced organizational skills
  • Ability to develop and deliver creative business solutions for complex problems
  • Ability to effectively work with tight schedules and a fast-paced environment
  • Degree or equivalent experience required

Nice to have

  • Ability to attract, hire and retain high-performing support professionals
  • Functional or technical salesforce.com knowledge