This role involves managing support teams that provide technical assistance for Canonical's open source products, ensuring customer satisfaction, technical excellence, and continuous process improvement in a fast-paced, remote work environment.
Key Responsibilities
Manage and develop a professional support team, including skills development and performance management
Ensure timely and professional response to customer cases within SLA
Act as the escalation point for customer issues and address escalations appropriately
Maintain accountability for customer satisfaction
Contribute to the support knowledge base and improve team processes
Hire, train, and develop support team members to meet business needs
Collaborate with leadership to drive growth and transformation initiatives
Requirements
Extensive CLI experience with Linux at a technical level
Support, Development, Implementation Leadership experience, and preferably team management experience
Confidence under pressure, with proven track record of high customer focus
Support or knowledge of Linux Desktop, OpenStack, Public Cloud, or Virtualization technologies
Proven track record of contributing to Open Source projects
Software development experience
Experience in working in support organizations
Hands-on experience with Canonical’s products
Ability to respond to all customer cases within the SLA and in a professional manner
Ability to act as the customer escalation contact and ensure escalations are addressed appropriately
Accountability for customer satisfaction
Ability to contribute to the support knowledge base
Ability to continuously improve team processes and support service delivery
Ability to hire, develop, and train support team to match business requirements
Ability to work with the leadership team to drive growth and transformation initiatives
Benefits & Perks
Compensation is based on geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with the opportunity for in-person team sprints twice a year
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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