Manager, Technical Support Engineering - Agentforce / Data360

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About the Role

We are looking for an ambitious leader to guide our cutting-edge support team! As we pioneer the Agentic Era of CRM, we need a highly motivated manager to lead a team of engineers supporting the #1 cloud-based platform. This role offers the opportunity to lead a global, customer-focused team in a fast-paced environment, ensuring our customers achieve success with our AI and Data360 solutions. You must possess excellent communication skills and the passion to deliver outstanding support while mentoring a team to master the Salesforce Platform.

A Technical Support Manager is responsible for ensuring the success of our customers by effectively managing a team of Technical Support Engineers (Salesforce Product Suite Technical Experts) along with associated support projects and processes.

Your Impact:

• Lead High-Performance Teams: Manage a support team to achieve business objectives including the attainment of targets for customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, service levels, resolution time, and project deadlines.
• Drive Strategic Alignment: Set team goals in alignment with Global Support objectives. Assist direct reports in the definition and attainment of individual goals.
• Empower Employee Success: Ensure that direct reports have the resources, information, and processes necessary to deliver effective technical solutions to our customers. Ensure the delivery of high-quality technical and soft-skills training for direct reports.
• Cultivate Talent: Deliver performance reviews for all direct reports and provide regular feedback on performance in terms of agreed-upon performance and employee development goals. Serve as a manager, mentor, and escalation point for Support employees; Build credibility and trust within the support group.
• Champion the Customer: Communicate effectively to customers when representing Global Support in meetings with customers. Advocate for customers and define ways to continually add value to the customer experience.
• Operational Excellence: Manage workflows and schedules for direct reports and ensure adequate workload coverage. Manage key processes including FAQ analysis, case reviews, and customer feedback analysis. Develop and maintain Support procedures and policies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Effectively represent the Support department on cross-organizational teams to deliver on organizational objectives and coordinate with departments across the organization including Sales, Consulting, CSM, QA, Program Management, and Product Management.
• Business Intelligence: Deliver regular reports that provide qualitative and quantitative descriptions of business performance.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years managing technical support professionals. Minimum 5 years experience in a technical support role.
• Solid, functional salesforce.com application knowledge.
• Experience with support tools and phone systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to successfully communicate and coordinate with departments across the organization.
• Ability to understand and escalate issues efficiently and appropriately.
• Demonstrated strong work ethic and advanced organizational skills.
• Ability to develop and deliver creative business solutions for complex problems.
• Ability to effectively work with tight schedules and a fast-paced environment.
• Degree or equivalent experience required. Experience evaluated based on the strengths you'll need for the role (e.g. proven behaviors in previous jobs such as extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.).

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to attract, hire and retain high-performing support professionals.
• Functional or technical salesforce.com knowledge.

Note: This role is office-flexible, and the expectation is to work from the Seattle or Bellevue office three days per week.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what's possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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