Manager, Technical Customer Support, Focused Services

16 Minutes ago • 8 Years + • $137,400 PA - $222,200 PA
Customer Service

Job Description

This role involves leading a technical support team to identify and resolve complex issues for established clients, ensuring their secure environment and repeat business. You will guide daily team activities, mentor engineers, conduct performance reviews, and provide technical oversight. Responsibilities include engaging in QBRs, leading PIRs, collaborating with stakeholders, overseeing trend analysis, and managing escalations, while being accountable for customer success.
Must Have:
  • Guide daily activities of a team of Designated Support Engineers.
  • Mentor and guide engineers to enhance technical expertise and soft skills.
  • Conduct annual performance reviews, providing actionable feedback and mentorship.
  • Support engineers in solving complex customer issues, prioritizing, and setting clear expectations.
  • Proactively engage in Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with customers.
  • Lead Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) to identify root causes and drive process improvements.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across Sales, Engineering, Product, and leadership teams.
  • Oversee trend analysis on support cases, identifying recurring issues and collaborating on solutions.
  • Be 100% accountable for the customers managed within the team.
  • Spearhead change initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and high performance.
  • Anticipate and proactively manage escalations at the case and account levels using AI-driven insights.
  • Provide weekend and holiday on-call support on an as-needed basis.
  • 8+ years in technical support, with at least 3 years experience in a management OR lead role.
  • Strong mentorship skills demonstrated through coaching engineers and driving performance improvements.
  • Exceptional problem-solving and crisis management skills, focusing on customer advocacy.
  • Expertise in handling incidents and troubleshooting in network security, cloud security, or enterprise IT environments.
  • Experience in Network and Cloud Security industries, with familiarity in network infrastructure components.
  • Experienced in working with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to refine support strategies.
  • Excellent communication skills with strong executive presence, adept at managing stakeholder relationships.
  • Skilled in AI-driven analytics, ITIL frameworks, and using case management systems (e.g., Salesforce, ServiceNow, JIRA).

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Your Career

It’s not about making a sale. It’s about providing the most secure environment for our customers’ digital transactions. In this role, you’ll continue building on our mission by helping secure our clients’ environment and ensure their repeat business and future endorsement. You will be in charge of leading a technical support team that will help identify and fix complex issues in our established clients’ networks, while handling critical issues through your team’s support. You’ll be responsible for the daily operations of your team to ensure they achieve their goals while meeting the needs of the customers.

Your Impact:

Operational Leadership and Team Management:

  • Guide the daily activities of a team of Designated Support Engineers, ensuring alignment with company goals and objectives. Provide the team with the necessary resources, tools, and streamlined processes for sustained performance and efficiency
  • Mentor and guide engineers to enhance both technical expertise and soft skills. Facilitate regular training opportunities tailored to both technical and professional growth, setting clear team goals that align with broader organizational objectives
  • Conduct annual performance reviews, providing actionable feedback and mentorship to help team members exceed expectations

Technical Oversight and Customer Engagement:

  • Support engineers in solving complex customer issues, effectively prioritizing, negotiating customer priorities, and setting clear expectations for outcomes
  • Proactively engage in Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with customers, providing insights on support best practices and participating in business development discussions to underline the value of services offered
  • Lead Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs) to identify root causes, document lessons learned, and drive process improvements

Strategic Collaboration and Accountability:

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across Sales, Engineering, Product, and leadership teams. Work closely with the Business Operations Manager to ensure seamless service kick-offs
  • Oversee trend analysis on support cases, identifying recurring issues and collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement long-term solutions
  • Be 100% accountable for the customers managed within the team, taking ownership of all pre-sales and post-sales decisions

Change and Crisis Management:

  • Spearhead change initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and high performance through effective communication and support
  • Anticipate and proactively manage escalations at the case and account levels using AI-driven insights and prediction models
  • Provide weekend and holiday on-call support on an as-needed basis

Your Experience

Leadership and Management:

  • 8+ years in technical support, with at least 3 years experience in a management OR lead role in a high-touch or white-glove support environment
  • Strong mentorship skills demonstrated through coaching engineers, setting ambitious goals, and driving performance improvements
  • Exceptional problem-solving and crisis management skills, focusing on customer advocacy and improving service response and resolution timelines

Technical Expertise and Problem Solving:

  • Expertise in handling incidents and troubleshooting in network security, cloud security, or enterprise IT environments
  • Experience in Network and Cloud Security industries, with familiarity in network infrastructure components such as routers, switches, firewalls, and VPN solutions (Checkpoint, Juniper (Netscreen), Fortinet, Cisco)

Collaboration and Communication:

  • Experienced in working with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to refine support strategies and improve product supportability
  • Excellent communication skills with strong executive presence, adept at managing stakeholder relationships, leading high-level customer engagements, Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs), and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)
  • Skilled in AI-driven analytics, ITIL frameworks, and using case management systems (e.g., Salesforce, ServiceNow, JIRA). Proficient in conducting trend analysis for proactive support

The Team

Our technical support team is critical to our success and mission. As part of this team, you enable customer success by providing support to clients after they have purchased our products. Our dedication to our customers doesn't stop once they sign - it evolves. As threats and technology change, we stay in step to accomplish our mission.

You'll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised - in fact, you'll seek them out to ensure our clients are safely supported. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

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