Associate Technical Services Manager

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

This role will be based in Bangalore.

As an Associate Technical Services Manager, you will monitor product health and quality based on data gathered from multiple sources (including real-time product monitoring, member escalations, social media, and help center discussions), prioritize issues, and work directly with Engineering and Product Management to implement changes to deliver the best member & customer experience possible.

Your team is the last stop before engineering, so the most complex issues not resolved through other support channels are escalated to you to investigate, triage, and resolve. Associate Technical Services Managers aggregate and analyze member bugs/issues using internal tools, path analysis reports, available data, and then work with their Product & Engineering stakeholders to drive fixes for key product issues, prioritized based upon issue volume, members impacted, revenue impact, and other relevant factors.

In addition to providing operational support for member escalations and product bugs, Associate Technical Services Managers are also expected to drive strategic initiatives to improve product quality. Associate Technical Services Managers also play an essential role in product launches and sunsets, ensuring readiness from a product quality perspective and providing supporting technical services.

Responsibilities:

• Owns a product or major product features; influencing business decisions with limited manager oversight
• Monitor key metrics related to product quality and drive initiatives to achieve related goals and improve product quality
• Review, investigate, and resolve complex technical member cases within the target SLAs
• Monitor and analyze reporting and dashboards to quickly identify issues and take corrective action when needed
• Report on escalation trends, top issues, and improvement opportunities
• Organize and/or participate in team discussions, inviting diverse ideas and engaging in healthy conflict when needed
• Work independently to find facts and effectively communicate ideas that enhances products/services
• Partner with Product & Engineering stakeholders to drive quality improvement initiatives and deliver the best member experience possible
• Attend key stakeholder meetings to continually provide awareness of new and ongoing issues as well as quality improvement initiatives
• Drive post mortems to identify process gaps and take corrective actions to prevent recurrences of similar issues
• Drive overall support readiness for new products and features
  
  
  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in Technical Support, Quality Assurance, Product Operations, Product Management or a related field
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with HTML, JavaScript, SQL, AJAX, APIs, and other web development technologies
• Familiarity with Unix and cURL
• Ability to interact with diverse groups of technical and non-technical people
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and be able to effectively communicate complex subjects to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels
• Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to pull data directly, analyze large data sets, and identify business insights from data
• Strong results-orientation and direct experience in utilizing data to identify critical trends
• Knowledge of Hive and Pig
• Working knowledge of other business analytics tools (e.g., Tableau and Business Objects) a plus
• Familiarity with issue management systems such as JIRA and Bugzilla
• Familiarity with CRM systems such as Salesforce and Zendesk
  
  
  

Suggested skills:

• SQL
• HTML
• JavaScript
• Unix
  
  
  

Additional Information

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