MongoDB

Manager, Technical Services

MongoDB$133K — $261K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in a technical support leadership role.
  • Proven people management skills with a focus on customer experience.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to perform under pressure.
  • Experience in coordinating customer escalations and cross-department collaborations.
  • Understanding of customer business drivers and technical use cases.
  • Experience with hiring, performance management, and team goal alignment.
  • Proficient in adjusting communication styles to suit technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose and resolve performance-related issues in MongoDB environments.
  • Advise on design and architecture for global data distribution and replication.
  • Collaborate globally on seamless issue handovers using a follow-the-sun model.
  • Contribute to knowledge base and develop training for team broadening expertise.
  • Build rapport with named accounts for deeper understanding of customer architecture.
  • Mitigate issues and advocate for customers while driving resolutions.
  • Continuously enhance skills and industry awareness through training and collaboration.

Benefits

  • Equity and participation in employee stock purchase program.
  • Flexible paid time off and 20 weeks fully-paid parental leave.
  • Fertility and adoption assistance support.
  • 401(k) plan with company contributions.
  • Mental health counseling services available.
  • Transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage.
Full Job Description
Technical Services has nearly 200 global team members in offices spanning the entire globe. The team has offices in New York City, Toronto, Austin, Palo Alto, Vancouver, Sydney, Gurgaon (India), Tel Aviv, Dublin, and Buenos Aires. Outstanding customer satisfaction is achieved utilizing a 24x7x365 'follow-the-sun' support model with regional teams covering the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions.

We have an incredible opportunity for a transformational individual to join the MongoDB Technical Services team, leading a regional team of MongoDB 'Fedramp' Support Engineers. Individuals in this team are experts in addressing issues related to MongoDB's database functions to enable successful Fedramp customer implementations.

Click here to learn more about our Technical Services team.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Austin, TX for our hybrid working model.
Typical responsibilities of the team include:
  • Diagnosing and resolving performance related issues
  • Advising on design and architecture including global distribution and replication of data to support high availability, low latency and meeting data sovereignty requirements
  • Advising on upcoming roadmap features and advocating for the customer in articulating business cases to drive issue resolution
  • Globally collaborating with peer teams to provide seamless and efficient regional handovers of follow-the-sun issues
  • Continuously learning and growing skills via participation in training, maintaining industry awareness and development of training to share subject matter expertise more broadly across the team
  • Increasing case-deflection numbers by contributing to knowledge-base, distributing knowledge to peers and the general MongoDB community
  • Working on named accounts to build rapport and an in-depth understanding of customer architecture and environment(s) while encouraging expansion of use

Our customers are the best and brightest in the business and they have great expectations of our products and our company. If you are the type of person who enjoys helping customers, managing complex, fast-moving situations and leading/managing a talented group of individuals who continuously delight our customers, then this role is for you!
Candidate Profile

Required
  • A minimum of five (5)years practical experience running a technical support team or organization, including experience coordinating high profile customer escalations, collaborating with other internal engineering departments, and working closely with sales teams
  • Strong people management skills with a track record of building and managing individuals with a strong focus on customer experience and technical excellence
  • Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and solve problems in real-time
  • Ability to lead-by-example with strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
  • Ability to understand customer business drivers and use cases
  • A customer advocate who can mitigate and drive issues as appropriate
  • Is comfortable engaging in hiring decisions, performance management, translating company and the organization's goals down to team and individual levels
  • Ability to articulate and calibrate communication style based on audience, from highly technical to 'executive'
Special requirements
  • Be a US Person on US soil (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee living and working in the United States)
  • Willingness and ability to participate in pager duty rotations during nights, weekends and holidays (approximately one out of every six weeks), at least during an initial ramping period (and potentially permanently)
Desirable
  • Prior work at a database company, specifically in the NoSQL space, or a similar highly concurrent distributed system used in production architectures
  • Born-in-the-cloud SaaS experience. IaaS or PaaS highly desirable
  • Experience developing KPI's viewable in management dashboards and scorecards using analytical tools like Tableau
Success Measures

Within 30 days
  • Complete MongoDB's new hire technical training program; be able to speak confidently about our total portfolio of products
  • Be able to navigate and articulate our core products at a beginner level
  • Build initial rapport with the team and gain their trust

Within 60 days
  • Understand our global follow-the-sun processes and escalation processes
  • Have formed relationships with escalation managers, CSMs, sales, field and engineering stakeholders
  • Have begun conducting regular 1 on1's with staff as well as other managers within Technical Services

Within 90 days
  • Take assignment of and drive five (5) cases to closure to help learn our internal processes
  • Provide a roadmap for personal growth in the role and justify the order and prioritization
  • Have identified areas of efficiency for the team to scale
  • Can assist with regional escalations and RCA's when needed
  • Keep leadership apprised of potentially hot issues and heads-up information related to the team

At 120 days and onward
  • Produce a roadmap and review with your manager detailing how you will scale your technical knowledge in the product commensurate with role needs
  • Have an approved plan to globally drive improvement in an area of process or tooling efficiency
  • Conduct three (3) face-to-face interactions with marquee customers, either in-person or virtually
  • Produce growth plans for the team
  • Demonstrate the understanding of the short and long term goals of the Technical Services team and how your team is working toward those objectives

MongoDB's base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB's total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

$133,000-$261,000 USD

About MongoDB

MongoDB is a general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. MongoDB is a leading NoSQL database that allows developers to build applications with ease and flexibility. MongoDB is used by many of the world's largest organizations to power their most critical applications. MongoDB is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the globe.
Learn more about MongoDB
Size
3,544 employees
Market Cap
$12.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$266.9 million
Founded
2007
5 Year Trend
+50.1%
Revenue
$590.3 million
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