The Escalation Coordinator at Carbon Black is a pivotal function to our Customer's Success. In this role you will manage both internal and Customer initiated escalations from beginning to resolution, ensuring both new and renewal business is successful.

Reporting to the Escalation Manager, the Escalation Coordinator will assess the customer's problematic situation, define success criteria, and then communicate your plan to a customer and relevant stakeholders. You thrive on taking preventative measures to prevent heated escalations, proactive steps during an active escalation, maintain consistent and predictable communication, and follow up to ensure success criteria is met post-escalation.

This role requires excellent relationship development skills, ability to deliver presentations and a personality that thrives in a fast paced environment. You will work both cross-functionally within Carbon Black departments and within a Customer's Organization. 

This is a great opportunity for someone interested in ensuring a customer's business objectives are met, with an end goal of protecting their endpoints with Carbon Black software.

This position is available to all U.S. locations. 

Escalation Coordinator Job Duties:

• Central Technical Support point of contact for customer escalations covering both US and International regions 

• Lead escalation management activities, such as checkpoint calls for customer issues and reporting

• Centralized control of customer situation across multi-departments

• Proactively monitor high priority support cases and provide assistance to prevent escalations

• Own and drive Action Plan for and escalation success criteria

• Communicate customer priorities to Engineering, Professional Services, and other departments

• Facilitate customer interaction with Engineering via Technical Support

• Facilitate and guarantee cross products resource engagement 

• Create Exec communication of action and customer situations

• Ensure resource prioritization and resolution of customer escalated issues 

• Communicate cross functionally with Sustaining Engineering, Development, Product Management, Customer Success Team, and other teams

• Work with Support Operations to enhance the support tools (Salesforce, etc.) for better monitoring, tracking and reporting of escalations

• Suggest improvements in Technical Support processes to enhance the customer experience  

• Drive improvements in Carbon Black products by tracking trends in customer cases
   

Qualifications & requirements:

• 5+ years of Technical Support or escalation handling experience

• Excellent organizational and project management skills 

• Ability to exercise effective judgment, sensitivity, and creativity to changing situations

• Adaptable, professional, courteous, motivated and work well on their own or as a member of a team

• Proven leaderships skills

• Demonstrated problem solving skills

• Strong communication (verbal and written) and customer handling skills

• Perform well under pressure and deadline driven 

• Experience in the enterprise security space

• Familiarity with software distribution, patch management, and anti-viral technologies

• Programming experience a plus

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Category : Client Support
Subcategory: Technical Support
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Work From Home: Yes
Posted Date: 2020-03-24

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