Senior Manager Customer Support

Rubrik; Cork; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Rubrik is seeking a Senior Manager, Customer Support EMEA in Cork, Ireland to lead a global post-sales support team. You will drive service delivery, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction across the EMEA region, with collaboration across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, QA and IT.

The role requires strategic leadership and strong people management. You will mentor and develop staff, monitor KPIs, and oversee escalations while aligning with Rubrik’s mission to secure and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.
• 7+ years in technical customer support, with 3+ years managing a support or technical team.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Planning, decision making, staffing and process improvement.
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork abilities.
• Self-driven, proactive, hardworking and team-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Implement the service delivery strategy defined by the organisation.
• Manage the business and operational excellence of the customer support organisation.
• Ensure quality and service delivery standards are met and exceeded.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, QA, and IT to improve customer satisfaction.
• Lead the support operations and performance activities, including escalations and KPI reviews.
• Drive process improvements and leverage automation/AI tooling to raise productivity.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Teamwork

Proactive

Shift flexibility

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Senior Manager Customer Support EMEA

Location: Cork, Ireland (office-based).

The Senior Manager, Customer Support role is responsible for all aspects of customer post-sales support to our customers and partners. The support team is responsible for handling support requests using the follow-the-sun model in the EMEA region and provide support for other geographies such as APAC and Americas requesting assistance. As a Support Manager, your passion for exceeding customer expectations will flourish as you lead a team of high caliber Support Engineers in delivering exceptional customer experience to our global customer base. You will be responsible for the management, professional growth and development of the team. As a key member of the leadership team you are also responsible for delighting our customers, developing excellent staff and achieving both tactical and strategic business development objectives. This role requires a high level of professional communication to all stakeholders.

The Senior Manager of Customer Support is also responsible for short and long-term performance management of his/her direct reports, including managing individual operational indicators, written performance reviews, and career planning.

Responsibilities include:

• Implement the service delivery strategy defined by the organisation.

• Manage the business and operational excellence of our customer support organisation

• Ensure that quality and service delivery standards are met and exceeded

• Collaborate with other organisation such as Sales, Marketing, Operations, Engineering, QA, and IT to improve overall customer satisfaction objectives

• Manage the support operations and performance activities, customer satisfaction

• Drive operational improvements as it relates to customer satisfaction

• Represent the Services functions as necessary on product teams and in various other Rubrik decision-making forums

• Evaluate and develop staff

• Manages the activities of a group/department of technical support engineers and leads

• Closely monitoring top support issues after product launch, identifying gaps across all Support tiers worldwide in support tools / resources needed to better support new features.

• Improve processes and use automation and AI tooling to raise team productivity and customer experience.

• Collect and analyse support centre metrics to guide decisions about product and support quality

• Handle escalations, initiate conference calls, drive escalations to positive closure by providing timely status update all the stake holders

• Set Goals (KPI) and Review team performance daily, weekly, quarterly and half yearly

• Experience with phone home and proactive support best practices

Education & Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in any discipline

• 7+ years in technical customer support, with 3+ years managing a support or technical team.

General Skills

• Excellent written & verbal communication skills

• Planning, Decision Making, Staffing, Process Improvement

• Excellent inter-personal and teamwork skills

• Should ensure high level of quality in process deliverables

• Self-driven, proactive, hardworking, team-player with a good sense of humour

• Should be open to work in any shift timing

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Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.

Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:

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