Support Manager

As the Technical Support Engineering Leader, you will utilize your passion for helping others to ensure that our Developers and Enterprises are successful in their use of DataStax products and solutions. This is a continuous learning and teaching role where you will develop and share your knowledge of troubleshooting, configuration, and exciting new technologies inclusive of and complementary to Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise.What you will do:Delivery of superior-level service to end-user customers, and functioning as point-of-contact for escalated issues to ensure appropriate response and focus of support teamsManage the hiring, development, and retention of technical support engineers and enhance their technical, communication, and business skills to deliver quality service to partners and customers. Ensure adherence to response-time and response-quality SLAs, that workload is balanced across engineers, and that the team delivers on their commitment to customer success.Implement, maintain, and enhance escalation processes and procedures and the on-call schedule and systems to ensure that service and customer satisfaction goals are consistently exceeded.Compile, analyze, and report on support metrics and work with product and engineering teams to communicate hot issues, customer/partner needs, priorities, and to drive product improvement.Develop and execute strategic and operating plans, working hand in hand with other support leaders. Contribute to the direction of support infrastructure, processes, and systems to increase the quality and efficiency of support.Tracking, monitoring and reporting on department operations, and closely manage critical customer accounts to develop path to issue resolution Required education Bachelor's Degree Preferred education Master's Degree Required technical and professional expertise 10-15 years of relevant experienceDemonstrated experience supporting enterprise level, mission-critical applicationsMature and seasoned senior manager excelling in customer communication, problem-solving, and comfortable presenting to executives as well as front-line staffPrevious account management or account executive skills desired, with ability to organize and track multiple projectsEffective leadership experience required, with goal setting and action plans for career development on a team and individual basis.Must exhibit an effective customer service attitude and be able to lead a team in resolving difficult customer situations.Technically sound, able to lead and participate in technical discussions and work on basic technical cases when requiredSupporting Apache Cassandra environments or other relational and/or alternative database technologiesExperience supporting various types of DBaaS and associated cloud environments.Strong understanding of Generative AI concepts and emerging trends in AI research.Strong understanding of Java, Python, and/or another programming languageStrong Linux and Networking skills navigation and toolsExperience managing technical support operations in a distributed environmentFamiliarity with open source software a plusSkilled in leading and motivating talented support engineers.Knowledge and proficiency in staff scheduling, workload analysis, performance management, and interviewing skills.Ability and comfort in dealing with difficult employee or customer issues, and in ensuring positive interactions even when message content is difficult or critical.Must be motivated by challenges and be able to offer multiple solutions for a problem.Proven track record of identifying and developing innovative enhancements to Support process and methodology.Able to develop individual and team objectives to contribute positively to organizational goals and direction