This position reports to Manager, Major Incident Management
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“This position requires passing a ServiceNow background screening, USFedPASS (US Federal Personnel Authorization Screening Standards). This includes a credit check, criminal/misdemeanor check, and taking a drug test. Any employment is contingent upon passing the screening. Due to Federal requirements, only US citizens, US naturalized citizens or US Permanent Residents, holding a green card, will be considered.”
The Major Incident Manager is a key driver for managing the resolution of technical problems with severe consequences to ServiceNow or our customers. This responsibility includes collaborating and partnering with the entire organization to drive action and foster growth. As a member of the Global Technical Support team, the Major Incident Manager should be both technically competent and business-oriented. A Major Incident Manager must be able to work outside of regular business hours (weekend shifts, holidays, & evenings) as needed. At all times, the Major Incident Manager will ensure:
· Drive incidents to resolution and ensure accurate and timely customer and executive communications.
· Ensure the correct resources are working on the resolution of major incidents appropriate to the severity and identify when escalation is required and trigger such escalation accordingly.
· Ensure that incident management processes are followed and that incident post-mortems are completed to capture process deviations and areas for improvements.
· Deliver consistent communication to Management and customers.
· Own the customer situation as a single point of contact for the customer escalation team.
What you get to do in this role:
· Drive the ServiceNow Major Incident Management Process for critical customer situations.
· Coordinate with peer managers worldwide on resources, issues, and schedules
· Assemble, work with, and manage cross-organizational teams.
· Support accurate and consistent maintenance of technical and management escalation processes.
· Primary lead for Customer Support during customer outages
· Ownership and execution of the active critical incident management process, including:
· Facilitate the resolution effort and determine when it is necessary to engage additional resources if the resolution effort is stalled during the call with stakeholders.
· Engagement of escalation management resources
· Manage customer and internal communications at an executive level.
· Timeline documentation and review
· Manage event communications.
· Establish and manage bridge calls with engineers and customers on single-customer outages.
· Attend and drive multi-customer outage bridges.
· Crafts business-appropriate communications for the affected operating groups and manages communication on a critical incident conference call
· Incident Resolution handoffs along with detailed notes and a summary of the business impact and duration to the Problem Management team
· Perform other duties and projects as assigned.
Qualifications and technical skills that will lead to your success:
- Minimum of 4+ years’ experience in critical/crisis management for technical customer escalations
- Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
- Extensive experience supporting and managing technical environments; demonstrated leadership skills in fast-paced, highly dynamic situations.
- Must be technically literate and be able to articulate technical issues in a meaningful way to both engineers and executive-level management.
- The ability to communicate confidently and clearly on conference calls, in meetings, and via email at all levels of the organization is essential.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Customer focus and ownership, use of own initiative, and a proactive approach to work
- Crisis management skills: ability to set priorities, pursue multiple threads simultaneously, accurately reflect the current state, and drive towards the desired state.
- Ability to maintain calm during stressful situations.
- A team player who is influential and builds good working relationships across all functions.
- Excellent project management skills, including demonstrated ability to manage projects across teams where influencing skills are required.
- Experience or knowledge working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Oracle)
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