The Escalation Manager ensures outstanding customer service by managing technical escalations, facilitating communication, and driving process improvements.
About Us:
Thrive delivers upon the promise of technology by enabling our clients’ digital transformation journeys with best practices on an AI, cybersecurity and cloud focused NextGen managed services platform.
Thrive’s culture is powered by diverse talent, big ideas, and a customer-first mindset—and it’s what truly sets us apart. Thrive is built for people who want more than a weekday routine. If you’re hungry to grow, eager to tackle new challenges and ready to drive real impact in a rapidly expanding environment, then welcome to THRIVE!
Position Overview:
This position offers you the opportunity to join our rapidly growing organization. We're looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As an Escalation Manager, you will flex your leadership, practice self-autonomy and show initiative to optimize both process and delivery around our Managed Service offerings.
In this position, the preferred applicant will act as the principal point of contact, managing client concerns and working closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure outstanding customer service. As an Escalation Manager in the Operations organization, you should have a baseline technical background combined with excellent customer service expertise. A problem-solving attitude with an ability to motivate your team to achieve specific goals are essential skills to perform well in this position. Ultimately, you should be able to ensure high-quality support, increase client satisfaction, improve relationships and foster positive cultural and behavioral change.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws.
Thrive is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation practices for all employees and strive to provide competitive salaries that reflect the value and skills each team member brings to our organization. Salaries are determined according to the job's scope, market data, location, and the candidate’s qualifications, including experience and relevant education.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected status.
Thrive delivers upon the promise of technology by enabling our clients’ digital transformation journeys with best practices on an AI, cybersecurity and cloud focused NextGen managed services platform.
Thrive’s culture is powered by diverse talent, big ideas, and a customer-first mindset—and it’s what truly sets us apart. Thrive is built for people who want more than a weekday routine. If you’re hungry to grow, eager to tackle new challenges and ready to drive real impact in a rapidly expanding environment, then welcome to THRIVE!
Position Overview:
This position offers you the opportunity to join our rapidly growing organization. We're looking for people with a passion for delivering customer success. As an Escalation Manager, you will flex your leadership, practice self-autonomy and show initiative to optimize both process and delivery around our Managed Service offerings.
In this position, the preferred applicant will act as the principal point of contact, managing client concerns and working closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure outstanding customer service. As an Escalation Manager in the Operations organization, you should have a baseline technical background combined with excellent customer service expertise. A problem-solving attitude with an ability to motivate your team to achieve specific goals are essential skills to perform well in this position. Ultimately, you should be able to ensure high-quality support, increase client satisfaction, improve relationships and foster positive cultural and behavioral change.
Responsibilities:
- Own client technical escalations and coordinate resolution efforts with primary internal and external stakeholders by working cross-functionally to ensure incident ownership, action items and communications are fulfilled
- Organize and facilitate calls between multiple parties, managing an active incident bridge and ensuring consistent communication through resolution of ongoing incidents
- Ensure process change ideas are implemented and action items are driven toward effective change
- Assist with development and management of clear and standard processes, which allow for both efficient and effective process adherence while managing escalations
- Identify systemic and pervasive issues related to products and/or processes and drive actions to prevent future problems
- Provide robust post-escalation reporting to ensure there is appropriate visibility into key client issues including escalation statistics, trending analysis, incident status activities and engaged resources
- Ability to translate technical information and articulate findings and next steps clearly to all stakeholders
- Set proper expectations for all stakeholders on expected outcomes, timelines and communication cadences.
- Is willing to work outside regular business hours as required to meet escalation needs
- Participate in the team’s weekend and holiday on-call rotation.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in technology, business, communications, or related field plus 3+ years of experience in technology or customer service.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, challenging environment with a diverse, global client base
- Strong analytical and end-to-end problem identification, management and resolution skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; including the ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences and explain impact in business terms
- Skilled at managing relationships with C-level stakeholders
- Available to work outside regular hours, including weekends and holidays, to handle escalations and join the on-call rotation
- Ability to download and use critical business applications on your mobile phone (Microsoft Teams, Outlook, etc.)
Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws.
Thrive is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation practices for all employees and strive to provide competitive salaries that reflect the value and skills each team member brings to our organization. Salaries are determined according to the job's scope, market data, location, and the candidate’s qualifications, including experience and relevant education.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected status.
Top Skills
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Cloud
Cybersecurity
Microsoft Teams
Outlook
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