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Head of Escalation Management, Enterprise Cloud

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Atlassian can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity, assuming candidates have eligible working rights and a sufficient timezone overlap with their team. As our offices re-open, Atlassians can choose to work remotely or return to an office, unless it's necessary for the role to be performed in the office. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.
We're looking for an experienced Group Manager to lead a growing team charged with managing the Support engagement of our key strategic customers, assessing crucial customer themes, educating and influencing internal and external teams, and leading critical customer challenges towards resolution. If you love leading and scaling teams, and helping strategic customers navigate through short and long-term challenges and opportunities, then this is the role for you!
You'll lead the Escalation Management and Support Account Management functions within the Customer Support Services (CSS) team, defining clear strategies, ensuring the delivery of key outcomes and focus on continuous improvement.
The Escalation Manager is a critical customer champion that will work with our Support Leadership, Product Management, and Development teams to ensure that our customer's voice is heard. Externally, this role will work with key strategic customers and partner experts, to coordinate and drive the resolution of critical issues.
The Support Account Manager will be responsible for the overall customer support health of assigned customers. They will meet with customers on a regular basis to review the progress on ongoing Support issues, clarify priorities and next steps and ensure the delivery of legendary support, building a strong relationship with key customer contacts and with our internal teams to remove roadblocks and facilitate communication, collaboration and prioritization.
More about You

  • You are an experienced leader who deeply understands the technical Support area, especially managing large Enterprise customers.
  • You have experience working directly with large Enterprise customers, engaging with them in critical escalations, managing internal and external expectations through clear and proactive communication at the Executive level, and leading towards resolution.
  • You have experience with assessing trends and overall customer themes, identifying critical priorities and ensuring your team is actively delivering on them, and influencing external teams to focus on the most impactful areas.


Some major areas of accountability

  • Drive critical customer escalations towards resolution. Lead communication efforts on high-impact customer issues, directly engaging with customers or through your team. Prioritize, coordinate and spark follow-up actions within the Atlassian team. Demonstrate ownership through regular meeting cadence & communications with internal and customer contacts, managing customer expectations on status and timelines.
  • Ensure legendary support delivery to key strategic customers. Scale the Support Account Management function by defining internal processes, cross-departmental workflows, and customer engagement models to ensure high-quality service delivery.
  • Educate the organization by sharing customer feedback and trends. Promote collaboration across our Support, Technical Account Management, Product, and Engineering teams to achieve real outcomes!
  • Emphasize the priority and urgency of issues into the product teams for key fixes. Promote the right outcome through resolving our customer's critical situations via effective partnership.
  • Continuously improve processes and frameworks for Support Account Management and Escalation Management.
  • Educate and promote standard methodologies for demonstrating Enterprise Support with customers and Partners. Help shape and improve our support services and product capabilities.


On the first day, we'll expect you to have

  • 8+ years of experience leading forward-facing support or technical account management teams where customer effort and satisfaction are a priority.
  • 10+ years managing Enterprise-level escalations.
  • Strong negotiation and objection handling skills.
  • Strong communication skills at multiple organizational levels, including C-level.
  • Experience leading a distributed team.
  • Demonstrable ability to drive a cross-functional team to execute against a strategy you devised.
  • Exceptional behavioral assessment capability.
  • Strong learning orientation.
  • Deep curiosity and commitment to seek out and resolve problems, share root cause analysis to our customers and Atlassians and strategize on preventing similar problems in the future.


It's excellent but not required, if you have

  • Experience working with Atlassian products such as Jira and Confluence.
  • Deep familiarity with various technologies such as Microservices, Databases, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3), and the ability to work with observability data inside platforms such as Splunk & SignalFx.


More about our benefits
Whether you work in an office or a distributed team, Atlassian is highly collaborative and yes, fun! To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: ample time off to relax and recharge, flexible working options, five paid volunteer days a year for your favourite cause, an annual allowance to support your learning & growth, unique ShipIt days, a company paid trip after five years and lots more.
More about Atlassian
Creating software that empowers everyone from small startups to the who's who of tech is why we're here. We build tools like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Trello to help teams across the world become more nimble, creative, and aligned-collaboration is the heart of every product we dream of at Atlassian. From Amsterdam and Austin, to Sydney and San Francisco, we're looking for people who want to write the future and who believe that we can accomplish so much more together than apart. At Atlassian, we're committed to an environment where everyone has the autonomy and freedom to thrive, as well as the support of like-minded colleagues who are motivated by a common goal to: Unleash the potential of every team .
Additional Information
We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians is the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can rock the role, we'd love to learn more about you.
Learn more about Atlassian's culture, interviewing flow, and hiring process by checking out our Candidate Resource Hub .

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What are Atlassian Perks + Benefits

Atlassian Benefits Overview

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings range from health coverage to paid volunteer days to fitness classes.

No matter where you're working from, we want to ensure you're set up for success. To support, we provide tools and generous financial support to complete an ideal workspace that suits your needs.

We're a global company and some of our benefits vary slightly by location.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Abortion travel benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Pay transparency
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Company sponsored family events
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Pet friendly
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Meditation space
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

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