Manager, Technical Services

MongoDB; Austin (CO); On-site; USD 133,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Fertility and adoption assistance

Mental health counseling

Health benefits

Job summary

MongoDB is seeking a transformational leader to head a regional FedRAMP Support Engineers team within Technical Services. This role focuses on resolving complex performance issues, advising on architecture for global distribution, and advocating for customers in roadmap discussions.

The candidate will work EST 1st shift, coordinating follow-the-sun handovers and building strong customer partnerships. Ideal candidates have 5+ years managing technical support teams, strong people leadership, and

Qualifications

• Five plus years of practical experience leading a technical support team or organization, including coordinating high-profile escalations and collaborating with internal engineering and sales teams.
• Strong people management skills with a track record of building teams focused on customer experience and technical excellence.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure, think on your feet and solve problems in real time.
• Lead-by-example with diagnostic and troubleshooting skills across complex environments.
• Ability to understand customer business drivers and advocate effectively for them.
• Comfortable making hiring decisions and translating goals to team and individuals.
• Ability to tailor communication style from technical to executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve performance-related issues for MongoDB platforms.
• Advise on design and architecture to support high availability, global distribution, and data sovereignty requirements.
• Communicate upcoming roadmap features and articulate business cases to drive issue resolution.
• Collaborate with global peers to ensure seamless follow-the-sun handovers and escalation management.
• Contribute to knowledge bases and share expertise across the MongoDB community.
• Build rapport with named accounts to deepen understanding of customer architecture and expand usage.

Skills

People management

Customer focus

Executive communication

Problem solving

Hiring decisions

Job description

Technical Services has nearly 200 global team members in offices spanning the entire globe. The team has offices in New York City, Toronto, Austin, Palo Alto, Vancouver, Sydney, Gurgaon (India), Tel Aviv, Dublin, and Buenos Aires. Outstanding customer satisfaction is achieved utilizing a 24x7x365 ‘follow-the-sun’ support model with regional teams covering the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions.

We have an incredible opportunity for a transformational individual to join the MongoDB Technical Services team, leading a regional team of MongoDB ‘Fedramp’ Support Engineers. Individuals in this team are experts in addressing issues related to MongoDB’s database functions to enable successful Fedramp customer implementations.

We are looking for candidates who are comfortable working a Wednesday - Sunday or Saturday - Wednesday schedule.

We're looking to speak with candidates based on the east coast and able to work EST 1st shift hours.

Typical responsibilities of the team include:

• Diagnosing and resolving performance related issues
• Advising on design and architecture including global distribution and replication of data to support high availability, low latency and meeting data sovereignty requirements
• Advising on upcoming roadmap features and advocating for the customer in articulating business cases to drive issue resolution
• Globally collaborating with peer teams to provide seamless and efficient regional handovers of follow-the-sun issues
• Continuously learning and growing skills via participation in training, maintaining industry awareness and development of training to share subject matter expertise more broadly across the team
• Increasing case-deflection numbers by contributing to knowledge-base, distributing knowledge to peers and the general MongoDB community
• Working on named accounts to build rapport and an in-depth understanding of customer architecture and environment(s) while encouraging expansion of use

Our customers are the best and brightest in the business and they have great expectations of our products and our company. If you are the type of person who enjoys helping customers, managing complex, fast-moving situations and leading/managing a talented group of individuals who continuously delight our customers, then this role is for you!

Candidate Profile

Required

• A minimum of five (5)years practical experience running a technical support team or organization, including experience coordinating high profile customer escalations, collaborating with other internal engineering departments, and working closely with sales teams
• Strong people management skills with a track record of building and managing individuals with a strong focus on customer experience and technical excellence
• Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and solve problems in real-time
• Ability to lead-by-example with strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to understand customer business drivers and use cases
• A customer advocate who can mitigate and drive issues as appropriate
• Is comfortable engaging in hiring decisions, performance management, translating company and the organization’s goals down to team and individual levels
• Ability to articulate and calibrate communication style based on audience, from highly technical to ‘executive'

Special requirements

• Be a US Person on US soil (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee living and working in the United States)
• Willingness and ability to participate in pager duty rotations during nights, weekends and holidays (approximately one out of every six weeks), at least during an initial ramping period (and potentially permanently)

Desirable

• Prior work at a database company, specifically in the NoSQL space, or a similar highly concurrent distributed system used in production architectures
• Born-in-the-cloud SaaS experience. IaaS or PaaS highly desirable
• Experience developing KPI’s viewable in management dashboards and scorecards using analytical tools like Tableau

Success Measures

Within 30 days

• Complete MongoDB’s new hire technical training program; be able to speak confidently about our total portfolio of products
• Be able to navigate and articulate our core products at a beginner level
• Build initial rapport with the team and gain their trust

Within 60 days

• Understand our global follow-the-sun processes and escalation processes
• Have formed relationships with escalation managers, CSMs, sales, field and engineering stakeholders
• Have begun conducting regular 1 on1’s with staff as well as other managers within Technical Services

Within 90 days

• Take assignment of and drive five (5) cases to closure to help learn our internal processes
• Provide a roadmap for personal growth in the role and justify the order and prioritization
• Have identified areas of efficiency for the team to scale
• Can assist with regional escalations and RCA’s when needed
• Keep leadership apprised of potentially hot issues and heads-up information related to the team

At 120 days and onward

• Produce a roadmap and review with your manager detailing how you will scale your technical knowledge in the product commensurate with role needs
• Have an approved plan to globally drive improvement in an area of process or tooling efficiency
• Conduct three (3) face-to-face interactions with marquee customers, either in-person or virtually
• Produce growth plans for the team
• Demonstrate the understanding of the short and long term goals of the Technical Services team and how your team is working toward those objectives

About MongoDB

MongoDB 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. MongoDB’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, MongoDB 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 MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

$133,000—$261,000 USD

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.