Technical Escalation Manager

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Tokyo, Japan · Support

Databricks is seeking a Technical Escalation Manager in Tokyo, Japan, to coordinate the resolution of critical customer issues and major incidents. This role involves working with internal engineering, product management, and customer success teams, as well as external partners, to ensure timely and effective resolution. The manager will create data-driven recovery plans, analyze trends, and utilize business and technical skills to manage escalations and improve incident management processes. A minimum of 8 years of experience in customer support, escalation, SRE, or incident management is required, along with strong communication skills, cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP), and proficiency in both Japanese and English.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage support escalation in partnership with engineering, product management, Customer Success Engineering, Support, Customers, and Partners until resolution.
  2. Achieve customer satisfaction by ensuring incidents or escalations (and related cases) are well and fully documented with the timely execution of action items.
  3. Create and execute a data-driven customer recovery plan for every escalation and incident that is addressed.
  4. Utilize business and technical skills to manage customer escalations, coordinate meetings and deliverables, and analyze trends and patterns for reporting purposes.
  5. Use data, metrics, and feedback to inform operational and tactical decisions that improve incident and escalation management.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in customer support, escalation, SRE, or incident management
  • Excellent contextual interpretation and writing skills
  • Ability to effectively summarize and communicate to both technical and business audiences
  • Experience with a "Distributed big data Computing" environment
  • SQL-based databases
  • Data warehousing and ETL technologies
  • Linux/Unix administration skills
  • Networking
  • Hands-on Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience working cross-functionally with support, engineering, product management, and directly with customers
  • Ability to deeply understand product and customer personas
  • BS or Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or related Engineering field
  • Written and spoken proficiency in both Japanese and English

What the JD emphasized

  • critical customer issues
  • customer-impacting situations
  • major incidents
  • customer recovery plan
  • escalation and incident