Team Leader - IT Service Desk

Description & Requirements

The Role

We're looking for a New York based Team Leader to lead our AMER Service Desk, within Employee Technology Support. You will own team performance, development, service delivery and escalations while ensuring a consistent, high-quality employee experience.

You will combine strong people leadership with technical and operational expertise , demonstrating end-to-end ownership, acting early on risk and using data, learning and roo t cause analysis to prevent repeat issues. You will work as part of one ETS team, partnering across Support, Engineering, Infrastructure and Product to improve tools, processes and service outcomes.

We'll Trust You To

• - Lead, coach and develop a high performing Service Desk team, creating shared accountability and continuous learning

• - Manage workload, escalations and service performance, with the employee experience at the center of decision making

• - Act as an escalation point for complex technical and operational issues, ensuring issues are fully diagnosed and followed through to resolution

• - Identify recurring issues, knowledge gaps, reuse learning and drive root cause fixes that reduce repeat demand

• - Act early on operational risks and communicate clearly with employees, stakeholders and partner teams

• - Drive knowledge, self-service, automation and process standardisation to improve service quality and efficiency

• - Partner effectively across ETS, Engineering, Infrastructure and Product, sharing context and ownership

• - Use service data to identify improvement opportunities and influence changes to tools, processes and policy

• - Maintain strong governance across tickets, documentation, procedures and service management practices

• - Support recruitment, resource planning and an inclusive, accountable team culture

You'll Need To Have

• - 5+ years' experience in IT support or service delivery, including 1 + year in a leadership role

• - Proven experience coaching, developing and performance managing technical support teams

• - Strong understanding of incident, request, problem, change and knowledge management practices

• - Strong enterprise technology knowledge across desktop, mobile, software, networking, VPN, peripherals and endpoint security

• - Strong judgement, problem solving, communication and stakeholder management skills

• - A track record of operating independently, taking end-to-end ownership and influencing improvements beyond your immediate team

• - Experience managing SLAs, KPIs, escalations and operational performance

• - Experience working successfully in a global, cross-functional support environment

We'd Love To See

• - ITIL v4 Foundation certification

• - Experience delivering automation, self-service or workflow improvements

• - Experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams

• - Experience supporting a global 24/7 service model

Salary Range = 115,000 - 140,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.