Manager, Escalation Management

Snowflake•Remote, AZ

1d•$112,000 - $147,000

About The Position

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake Support is committed to providing high-quality resolutions to help deliver data-driven business insights and results. We are a team of subject matter experts collectively working toward our customers’ success. We form partnerships with customers by listening, learning and building connections. Snowflake’s values are key to our approach and success in delivering world-class Support. Putting customers first, acting with integrity, owning initiative and accountability and getting it done are Snowflake core values and are reflected in everything we do. Snowflake’s Support team is expanding! We are looking for a Manager to lead our Escalation Management Team. As a Manager of Escalation Management, you will help our customers achieve their business goals by providing outstanding service and support to our most critical customers in their most important time of need. You possess an excellent track record of leading high-performance teams in multiple aspects, extensive experience in the areas of Technical Support and Support Escalations, and the proper skills to create operational, tactical and strategic goals for the Escalations organization. You have broad experience creating detailed proactive and reactive business models, analyses and processes all of which have fueled your past success. A thorough understanding of the processes that drive consistent Escalation Management results and the business impacts related to technical issues is a must.

Requirements

B.S. or M.S degree in CS, MIS or equivalent discipline
6+ years of technical support and service management experience; 2+ years in a supervisory role is required
3+ years of experience in a customer-facing role managing either escalations or incidents.
Experience managing Enterprise support in a large and complex environment in a web-based service and technology
A customer-first mindset and demonstrated ability to provide exceptional internal and external customer care
Proven capability of delivering on departmental goals and key metrics
Experience facilitating solution-building across cross-functional teams and driving projects to achieve a shared goal
Ability to present problem resolution, root cause analysis, and corrective actions to customer-facing teams and customers when warranted
A reputation for trustworthiness, fairness, dependability, and adherence to high ethical standards
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong technical aptitude and excellent communication and negotiation skills, both oral and written
Ability to adapt, to be flexible, and to learn quickly in a dynamic environment
Excellent teaming skills and the ability to work with virtual and global cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

Have global team responsibility to deliver excellent customer care and support in a 24x7x365 SaaS environment
This includes hiring, development, training, and skills management for a team of Escalation Managers
Possess a positive attitude and outlook and take a diplomatic approach to all situations.
Navigate and steer difficult situations toward positive outcomes
Make data-driven decisions to improve operational quality and efficiency.
Perform case quality reviews and coach team members toward driving improved customer experience
Foster and grow relationships across product and engineering functions for knowledge building, escalation engagement, new feature readiness, and product feedback
Establish good working relationships with customer-facing teams (sales, support account management, professional services, etc)
Assess and evaluate processes, technology, and team skill sets to identify gaps and identify areas to improve and opportunities for advancement.
Be the agent of change for new business processes, technology, and transformation
Lead by example to cultivate and maintain a culture built on teamwork and collaboration
Manage to the organizational and departmental objectives
Establish and implement relevant metrics and measures for success
Build future-proof processes and automation to enable scale across teams and products
Ensure quality work in all aspects of Escalation Management in support tickets, customer-facing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documents, senior executive readouts as applicable, etc.
Lead and grow a diverse team responsible for responding to, investigating, managing, and resolving high-impact escalations 24x7x365.
Responsible for engaging and managing escalations to a minimum of 30% of their time.
Promote continuous improvement based on data-driven conversations
Leverage metrics to make strategic decisions, concentrating on results
Deliver scheduled updates to internal and external stakeholders, including C-level individuals