Manager, Technical Services
Hybrid (Gurugram)Full-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Manager, Technical Services to lead and grow a team in Gurugram, overseeing engineers supporting MongoDB’s database, cloud, and emerging application-platform capabilities. Hybrid work model based in Gurugram.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Technical Services Engineers, including regular 1:1s, clear goals, performance feedback, career development, and succession planning
- Build an inclusive, accountable, and customer-focused team culture where engineers can do their best work
- Own regional service delivery for your team, balancing customer experience, case health, quality, operational discipline, and team sustainability
- Lead and coordinate high-impact customer escalations, ensuring timely communication, sound technical judgment, clear ownership, and effective follow-through
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Customer Success, Sales, and other Technical Services teams to resolve complex issues and bring customer feedback into product and process improvements
- Work with global peers to maintain consistent follow-the-sun processes, effective handoffs, and high-quality support across regions
- Help scale support for modern application workloads involving APIs, cloud services, distributed systems, containers, observability, data services, and AI-enabled application workflows, including agent orchestration, model and tool integrations, MCP, retrieval, memory, and production reliability considerations
- Establish and improve team operating mechanisms, including incident management, case reviews, root-cause analysis, knowledge management, quality practices, and capacity planning
- Identify recurring customer issues and drive improvements to self-service content, diagnostic tooling, runbooks, and support processes
- Participate in hiring and onboarding, and build a strong local talent pipeline
- Use operational metrics and customer feedback to identify trends, communicate performance, and prioritize improvements
- Contribute to regional and global Technical Services initiatives that improve the customer experience, operational efficiency, and technical capability of the organization
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience leading a technical support, customer engineering, site reliability, operations, or similar customer-facing technical team
- Demonstrated success developing people, managing performance, hiring strong talent, and building inclusive, high-performing teams
- Experience coordinating complex or high-severity customer escalations and working effectively with Engineering and Product organizations
- Strong technical foundation in troubleshooting production systems, with the ability to guide structured investigations across application, infrastructure, network, identity, and data layers
- Experience with one or more of cloud platforms, distributed systems, databases, containerized workloads, APIs, observability, or enterprise software
- Foundational knowledge of AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows, with the ability to assess technical judgment in areas such as agents, model-provider integrations, tool calling, Model Context Protocol (MCP), retrieval and memory, orchestration, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows
- Strong customer advocacy and sound judgment under pressure, with the ability to set expectations and drive issues to resolution
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication for technical, business, and executive audiences
- Experience translating organizational objectives into clear team priorities, measurable outcomes, and individual goals
- A collaborative, pragmatic leadership style and the ability to operate effectively across global, cross-functional teams
Skills
Required:People leadership and coachingEscalation managementTechnical troubleshootingCloud/distributed systemsAI-enabled applications knowledge
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