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MongoDB
Manager, Premium Support Services
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What they do
A Server Administrator oversees computer networks, ensures their efficiency by maintaining software updates, designing and implementing new system structures and monitoring server activity. Documents technical requirements, creates and implements a timetable for network maintenance, ensures security firewalls are updated regularly and remain fully functional.
$110,708 / year median in California
-6% projected decline
Job Description
Technical Services operates with a global footprint, maintaining a presence in key cities such as New York City, Toronto, Austin, Palo Alto, Vancouver, Sydney, Gurgaon (India), Tel Aviv, Dublin, and Buenos Aires. Our commitment to exceptional customer satisfaction is underpinned by a 24x7x365 'follow-the-sun' support strategy, executed by dedicated regional teams across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. We are seeking a visionary leader to join the MongoDB Technical Services organization to oversee regional teams of MongoDB Premium Services Support Engineers. These specialists possess deep expertise in resolving challenges related to core database functionality and troubleshooting complex cloud environments to facilitate high-scale customer success. For this hybrid role, we are specifically interested in meeting candidates located in Palo Alto, CA or San Francisco, CA.
- Core Responsibilities of the Team
- + Diagnosing and resolving performance issues: Identifying, troubleshooting, and fixing performance-related bottlenecks + Advising on design and architecture: Providing technical guidance on architectural design, including replication and global data distribution, to ensure low latency, high availability, and compliance with data sovereignty requirements + Serving as a customer advocate: Advising on upcoming roadmap features and articulating strong business cases to drive the swift resolution of critical issues + Engaging in global collaboration: Partnering with regional peer teams and sharing account context to anticipate client needs before an event, ensuring a seamless and elevated level of global service + Fostering a culture of continuous learning: Growing technical skills through training participation, maintaining industry awareness, and developing specialized internal training to share subject matter expertise more broadly across the team + Enhancing case-deflection strategies: Increasing case-deflection numbers by regularly contributing to the knowledge base, distributing technical insights to peers, and sharing knowledge with the broader MongoDB community + Building strong account relationships: Working with specific key accounts to build rapport, establish deep partnerships, and gain an in-depth understanding of unique customer architectures and environments while actively encouraging the expansion of MongoDB usage Our customers are the best and brightest in the business and they have great expectations of our products and our company.
- Candidate Profile
- Required Experience + 8+ years managing technical support or customer-facing engineering teams, with demonstrated success scaling operations, implementing process improvements, and elevating team performance + Proven track record in operational excellence: implementing metrics-driven improvements, designing scalable workflows, and optimizing resource allocation across distributed teams + Strong people development philosophy: history of coaching technical talent from individual contributors to senior engineers, with concrete examples of career progression under your leadership + Deep technical foundation across multiple database technologies (relational, NoSQL, distributed systems) with hands-on experience diagnosing complex production issues + Project leadership experience: successfully led cross-functional technical initiatives requiring coordination across engineering, product, and support organizations + Exposure to AI/ML technologies: understanding of how modern AI systems interact with data platforms, vector databases, or experience supporting AI-driven applications + Ability to balance technical depth with strategic thinking—equally comfortable reviewing query execution plans and presenting operational roadmaps to executives + Experience building and refining KPIs, implementing tooling improvements, and using data to drive team decisions + Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills with ability to lead-by-example during critical escalations + Comfort with the full people management lifecycle: hiring, performance management, succession planning, and translating organizational strategy to individual development plans + Ability to calibrate communication for diverse audiences—from kernel debugging sessions to executive business reviews •Desired Experience•+ Prior work at a database company, specifically in the NoSQL space, or managing support for highly concurrent distributed systems in production.
- Success Measures
- + Within 30 days + Complete MongoDB's new hire technical training program; be able to speak confidently about our total portfolio of products + Build initial rapport with the team and gain their trust + Within 60 days + Understand our global follow-the-sun processes and escalation processes + Have formed relationships with escalation managers, CSMs, sales, field and engineering stakeholders + Have begun conducting regular 1 on1's with your teams as well as other managers within Technical Services and across the business + Within 90 days + Take assignment of and drive five (5) cases to closure to learn our internal processes + Have identified areas of efficiency for the team to scale + Effectively lead regional escalations and RCA's when needed + At 120 days and onward + Present a comprehensive operational improvement plan addressing at least two areas: process efficiency, tooling gaps, knowledge management, or team development frameworks + Conduct three (3) face-to-face interactions with marquee customers, either in-person or virtually + Demonstrate the understanding of the short and long term goals of the Technical Services team and how your team is working toward those objectives •About MongoDB•MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.
REQ ID:
2273464421 MongoDB's base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB's total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates. MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S.is:
$140,000—$275,000 USDBenefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plans
- Employee Stock Options (ESOs)
- Health Insurance