Sev1 Escalation Manager Senior Analyst

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The Escalation Manager role acts as the incident commander to manage critical customer issues by engaging the required resources in a timely manner. The manager handles the issues in a hands-on capacity by balancing authoritative and collaborative operational modes based on the situation.

The Manager will build strong relationships with customers, Support teams across all cloud products, Engineering teams (Site Reliability, Customer-Centric Engineering, Technology Communications, and Readiness), CSIRT, Sales, Consulting, QA, Program Management, and Product Management.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of interacting with customers, working with executives, responding to issues and incidents, working hands-on with the team, and handling stress and ambiguity. This role brings an operational focus on prevention, including learning from cases and incidents, and partnering with other teams on initiatives that will reduce or eliminate impact to our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the resolution and ownership of all critical customer issues.

• Act as the hands-on critical issue manager for all clouds and Sev1 cases, ensuring appropriate team engagement and providing direct assistance.

• Represent Salesforce on customer bridge calls.

• Manage incidents to achieve key business targets (CSAT, ESAT, SLAs, resolution time, and project deadlines).

• Partner with customers to drive operational excellence.

• Collaborate with GEO and weekend escalation managers for seamless warm handoffs.

• Consistently drive high internal and external customer satisfaction.

• Serve as a trusted cross-functional partner (e.g., Infrastructure, Technical Support, Cloud Success, Sales Leadership) to ensure company-wide alignment.

• Continuously drive excellence in customer service delivery.

• Lead retrospective meetings to identify and action process improvement opportunities.

Experience / Skills Required

• A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant experience is required. Experience will be evaluated based on the role's Values and Behaviors (e.g., extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.).

• 5+ years of proven experience in a technical support environment, handling highly complex issues.

• Experience in Critical Issue Management and Incident Response in a high-growth software or hardware technology organization is preferred.

• Highly collaborative and respectful; curious, patient, and able to develop strong working relationships across matrixed teams.

• Exceptional C-level written and verbal communication skills.

• Deep expertise in leading complex critical incidents and customer escalation management.

• Strong team player with a customer-centric demeanor, focused on enhancing the customer and partner experience.

• Focused on quality of service and process development wi