Director, Escalation Management

United States Digital Space LLC; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The company is seeking a seasoned senior leader to head EMEA Incident & Escalation Management, guiding 500+ professionals across global regions. This hybrid Dublin/Cork role demands ownership of high-profile escalations, process refinement, and strategic initiatives to improve support for customers at scale.

With a hands-on approach and a track record of building and mentoring high-performing teams, you will drive cross-functional incident resolution and proactive problem management across

Qualifications

• Ten years in a highly technical post-sale leadership role within software.
• Four or more years leading Incident Response or Escalation Management, globally.
• Experience creating company-wide de-escalation frameworks for client experience.
• Proven ability to recruit, hire and mentor regional and global teams.
• Ability to manage deeply technical engineers across cloud and on-premise products.
• Proven experience delivering executive-level presentations to large groups.
• Strong people management with focus on career development.
• Experience handling large-scale cross-functional escalations.
• Desirable background as software/systems engineer or DevOps.
• Experience with NoSQL/distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect and execute strategic plans for critical situations management.
• Direct high-severity production incidents to swift resolution.
• Lead post-incident root cause analyses and improvements.
• Partner with sales, professional services, customer success to address adoption barriers.
• Coordinate with product and engineering to address core issues and fixes.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration to present a unified company view during crises.

Skills

Technical leadership

Incident response

Escalation management

Global teams

Cloud architectures

Tools

ITIL

Incident Command

Job description

At the company, we are disrupting industries and equipping developers with the tools to create extraordinary applications that impact daily lives. As the leading developer data platform and the pioneering database vendor to execute an IPO in over two decades, we offer an environment at the cutting edge of creativity and innovation.

The international data management software landscape is vast and expanding swiftly. Data from IDC indicates the global database management systems (DBMS) software market was valued at roughly $82 billion in 2023 and is projected to scale to approximately $200 billion by 2030, demonstrating an exceptional compound annual growth rate.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin or Cork for our hybrid working model.

The Role & Team Overview

We are seeking an accomplished technical leader to join our Technical Services organization as the head of the EMEA Incident & Escalation Management teams. In this critical capacity, you will guide the teams responsible for ensuring our clients can smoothly operate the company at scale and seamlessly navigate any technical hurdles.

This position demands a leader who can maintain a hands-on approach—taking direct ownership of high-profile escalations that require coordinated corporate responses—while concurrently expanding the team, refining processes, and advancing strategic objectives within a global critical situations management framework.

Team Overview: As an integral component of the Customer Organization, Technical Services boasts more than 500 global members across worldwide offices. We maintain industry-leading customer satisfaction metrics through a 24x7x365 'follow-the-sun' support framework, with specialized regional teams across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. The EMEA team operates out of hubs including Dublin, Milan, Barcelona, and Tel Aviv.

Core Responsibilities

• Collaborating with global leadership to architect and execute strategic plans for critical situations management, driving continuous refinement and evolution

• Directing time-sensitive, high-severity production incidents to swift resolution, reinforcing customer trust through exceptional service delivery

• Leading post-incident root cause analyses and fostering ongoing improvements across the broader Technical Services unit to prevent recurrence

• Partnering closely with sales, professional services, customer success, and other field organizations to address barriers to product adoption and expansion

• Engaging with managers and engineering personnel to proactively avert escalations by efficiently aligning resources to critical activities

• Coordinating with product management and core engineering divisions to address deep-seated product issues, advocating for essential feature enhancements and expedited bug fixes

• Working cross-functionally to champion continuous enhancement, ensuring customers experience the company as a unified, seamless collective during critical situations

Candidate Profile

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a highly technical, post-sale leadership role (such as Technical Services, Engineering, or DevOps) within a software company, demonstrating profound technical depth

• At least 4 years leading Incident Response or Escalation Management functions, preferably with a global footprint

• Proven experience establishing company-wide frameworks for de-escalating high-severity issues to optimize both client experience and internal efficiency

• Demonstrated success in recruiting, hiring, and mentoring high-performing regional and global teams

• Capability to manage deeply technical engineers and master intricate concepts related to the company's cloud-based and on-premise product suites

• Proficiency in leading virtual and in-person customer sessions, including delivering executive presentations to groups of up to 30 stakeholders ranging from engineers to C-suite executives

• Strong people management background (overseeing both managers and individual contributors) with a focus on career advancement within fast-paced, high-growth settings

• Extensive background managing escalations at substantial scale (multiple cross-functional, globally-resourced incidents per week across sales, customer success, engineering, and product teams)

Desirable Attributes

• Prior background as a software/systems engineer or DevOps professional; candidates should feel comfortable with command-line operations, query writing, and light programming given the highly technical nature of the platform

• Experience working within database companies, particularly in the NoSQL sector or with highly concurrent distributed systems in production environments

• Background implementing structured frameworks such as ITIL, Incident Command, and formal knowledge management systems

• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (XaaS), with IaaS or PaaS experience highly valued

• Experience designing and monitoring operational dashboards and scorecards utilizing analytics tools like Tableau

Success Measures

First 30 Days

• Complete our technical onboarding program and build the capacity to articulate the value of our entire product portfolio confidently

• Navigate the company's core technologies at a foundational level

• Establish a comprehensive grasp of the architectural details underpinning our cloud platform services

• Connect with cross-functional counterparts across Technical Services, Customer Success, Engineering, and Product Management

• Convene discovery sessions with regional and global stakeholders to pinpoint optimization opportunities for the incident and escalation program

• Forge solid relationships with APAC and AMER peers, embedding yourself as an active contributor within the global leadership team

First 60 Days

• Master our global follow-the-sun support methodologies and escalation workflows

• Initiate structured 1-on-1 cadences with key cross-functional partners in field and product divisions to ensure clear alignment regarding ongoing and historical escalations

• Attain the autonomy to handle process-driven escalations independently

• Begin running routine 1-on-1 alignment sessions with your team of escalation managers and adjacent Technical Services leaders

First 90 Days

• Demonstrate full capability in steering highly complex escalations and urgent critical events

• Assume direct ownership over strategic initiatives designed to mature and expand the critical situation management function

• Establish robust, bi-directional communication channels linking the escalation management team with the broader global leadership organization

• Drive tactical, continuous improvement efforts across the critical situations management domain

About the company

the company is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. the company’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, the company Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on the company for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

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