Job Description
- Lead, mentor, and support a global helpdesk team, setting clear expectations and providing ongoing feedback.
- Serve as a player/coach, directly handling tickets, escalations, and onsite support while coaching others to increase performance and effectiveness.
- Conduct regular check-ins, performance evaluations, and career development planning for helpdesk staff.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and customer service excellence.
- Effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
End User Support & Service Desk Operations
- Provide hands-on support for users at the Austin headquarters several days per week, ensuring high-touch service and quick resolution of onsite issues.
- Oversee end-user support services across multiple geographies, ensuring timely ticket resolution and high customer satisfaction.
- Monitor helpdesk KPIs (first response time, resolution time, customer satisfaction, etc.) and implement improvements.
- Track and analyze trends in support requests, escalate recurring issues, and recommend long-term fixes.
- Ensure accurate documentation of incidents, resolutions, and FAQs to build knowledge resources.
- Manage onboarding support for new hires—ensuring equipment, credentials, and accounts are ready for a smooth Day 1 experience.
- Manage and support video collaboration tools, conference room technologies, and productivity software (e.g., Microsoft 365, Teams, etc.).
Asset & Inventory Management
- Ensure effective inventory management of equipment across four geographies, including budgeting for expected growth and device refresh cycles.
- Oversee procurement, deployment, and recovery of laptops, desktops, peripherals, and mobile devices.
- Partner with Finance to forecast refresh and growth costs in alignment with company policy.
- Manage logistics to ensure equipment is delivered quickly to new hires and replacements are issued promptly when needed.
Incident & Problem Management
- Serve as escalation point for critical incidents, coordinating resolution and communication.
- Conduct root cause analysis of recurring issues and partner with other IT teams to prevent recurrence.
- Ensure timely communication of outages or service interruptions to affected users.
- Implement and manage mobile device management (MDM) to streamline provisioning, enforce security policies, and improve visibility of assets.
- Maintain endpoint compliance and security standards using Intune and endpoint protection tools.
- Promote IT service management best practices (incident, problem, and service request fulfillment) aligned with ITIL.
- Ensure helpdesk processes, policies, and procedures are well-documented, updated, and consistently followed.
Vendor & Stakeholder Management
- Manage relationships with third-party support vendors, ensuring SLAs are met.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand evolving end-user needs and adjust support accordingly.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of experience in IT helpdesk or end-user support, with at least 2 years in a supervisory/management role.
- Proven experience acting as a hands-on leader (“player/coach”) within a service-oriented IT environment.
- Strong technical expertise in Microsoft technologies (Microsoft 365, Intune, Teams, SharePoint, Active Directory/Azure AD).
- Experience with helpdesk ticketing systems and ITSM tools (e.g., ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk).
- Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
- Customer-service oriented with a proven ability to build rapport and trust with end users.
- Familiarity with ITIL frameworks and service delivery best practices (ITIL certification preferred).
- Ability to prioritize, multitask, and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
- Competitive salary and annual bonus
- Flexible time off and company recognized holidays
- 401k pension plan with company match contributions
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Life insurance- Basic, voluntary, and AD&D
- Healthcare- Medical, dental, vision, and MDLive
- Flexible spending & Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
