To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

A Technical Support Manager is responsible for ensuring the success of our customers by effectively managing a team of Technical Support Engineers (Salesforce Product Suite Technical Experts) along with associated support projects and processes.

This role involves handling critical customer escalations, career development of individuals, and project management processes. Apart from day-to-day activities, the candidate is expected to be involved in strategic planning to grow the team, run projects of organizational importance, guide / mentor next cadre of leadership as per Salesforce values, while being a face of organization to the wider world The candidate is expected to be independent, self-motivated, proactive, results-oriented and able define and provide a high level of customer satisfaction through the delivery of world-class support services.

Location: Hyderabad/Bangalore

Work Hours:

We operate 24x7 which can involve working during one of the below shifts determined as per business need and also have a non-standard work week(Ex: Tue - Sat, Wed - Sun).

While we have 5 days a week, it is not necessary that the weekend is Saturday and Sunday. You may get your weekly off on any day of the week (Mon/Tue, Thu/Fri)AMER hours (Eastern Standard Time - 5.30 PM/6.30 PM IST or Pacific Standard Time – 8:30 PM/9:30 PM IST onwards depending on Daylight Savings Time)

EMEA hours – 12:00 PM/1 PM/2PM IST onwards depending on Daylight Savings Time

APAC hours – 5.30 AM IST onwardsWork hours are subject to change depending on Business needs.

Experience/Skills Required:

Overall work-experience of 11+ years, Strong people management expertise of at least 6 years in technical support management roles.

Strong Experience in managing technical support professionals.

Experience with support tools and phone systems.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Strong team player with a service-oriented attitude and a keen focus on enhancing customer experience.

Continuously raises the bar on what defines customer service delivery.

Excellent situational awareness in handling objections in dynamic customer environments.

Leading cross-functional collaboration across global teams

Self-motivated, takes initiative, assumes ownership and runs programs with minimal supervision

Drive stakeholder engagement across peers and senior management

Ability to address and effectively engage large audiences and hold their interest

Strong Executive presence and excellent convincing skills; ability to hold own point of view in tough conversations

Provide guidance, mentoring, training and delegate responsibilities to managers enabling their professional growth and development

Ability to successfully communicate and coordinate with departments across the organization including Sales, Consulting, CSM, QA, Program Management, and Product Management

Strong Escalation management experience with multiple stakeholders including customers and product teams

Demonstrate strong work ethic and advanced organizational skills

Ability to develop and deliver creative business solutions for complex problems

Ability to attract, hire and retain high-performing support professionals

Ability to work on competing priorities under tight timelines and delivery pressures. Analytical bent of mind to understand data and derive actionable insights

Detailed Role & Responsibilities:

We are a 24 hrs 7 days a week 365 days center and hence would need candidates who are open to work any shift based on business requirements including Saturday and/or Sunday.

Manage a support team to achieve business objectives including the attainment of targets for customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, service levels, resolution time, and project deadlines. · Set team goals in alignment with Global Support objectives. Assist direct reports in the definition and attainment of individual goals

Ensure that direct reports have the resources, information, and processes necessary to deliver effective technical solutions to our customers

Ensure the delivery of high-quality technical and soft-skills training for direct reports

Deliver performance reviews for all direct reports and provide regular feedback on performance in terms of agreed upon performance and employee development goals

Effectively represent the Support department on cross-organizational teams to deliver on organizational objectives.

Manage workflows and schedules for direct reports and ensure adequate workload coverage

Deliver regular reports that provide qualitative and quantitative descriptions of business performance

Manage key processes including FAQ analysis, case reviews, and customer feedback analysis

Develop and maintain Support procedures and policies

Advocate for customers and define ways to continually add value to the customer experience

Serve as a manager, mentor, knowledge resource, and escalation point for support agents; Build credibility and trust within the support group

Foster and facilitate the professional growth and development of team members

Empower and install confidence in team members to enable them grow

Flexibility to work in staggered shifts, where weekly-offs are not Saturday and Sunday but two consecutive days from the other five weekdays

Work as Duty Manager on rotation or as per business needs handling customer escalations and priority issues

Take up and deliver on any other responsibilities as assigned from time to time by reporting manager/support management

Accommodations

If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form.

Posting Statement

At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com.

Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce.

Salesforce welcomes all.