Associate Manager, VR Technical Support

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Associate Manager, VR Technical Support

Introduction to the team

Expedia Product & Technology builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction. 
 

The Associate Manager, VR Technical Support is responsible for leading and developing a Technical Support team for API troubleshooting of Vacation Rental accounts. The Associate Manager is tasked with balancing the requirements of effective supervision of a high volume, action packed technical support team, with providing leadership and training for the team in a fast-changing environment.

You are passionate about Travel technology and application support. You have implemented innovative ideas and built workflows to ensure customers consistently have a delightful experience each & every time they interact with your team. You have a strategic mindset but can roll up your sleeves to tactically execute. You possess a genuine desire to build career paths for your team, share your knowledge and industry best practices, and create an environment where people are energized, motivated, & want to grow their careers. 

In this role, you will:

• Build and maintain an effective local Technical Support team that is part of a global, collaborative team imbued with a culture of empowerment and resolution

• Develop relationships with multiple internal teams to identify skills and develop knowledge needed to build a highly effective Technical Support team, adding value to our customers, product teams, and development organizations

• Contribute to the overall success of the global team by providing feedback, sharing information, and collaborating on best practices

• Inspire and gain commitment from others towards the vision, mission, values, and organizational goals

• Ensure team members meet performance and effectiveness expectations by setting clear expectations for operational performance, conducting one-on-one meetings, preparing weekly team meetings, reviewing individual and team goals, and providing construction coaching and feedback

• Identify and resolve issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet team goals

• Exercise critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and use sound judgement to address urgent issues efficiently and effectively

• Analyze and leverage data to identify problem areas, make business decisions, and improve team processes

• Identify opportunities for process improvement, engage with appropriate teams to create and deliver solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency impacting the Technical Support team

• Develop a strong partnership with frontline teams through regular meetings, knowledge sharing, and addressing frontline concerns in a timely manner

• Lead day-to-day processes and other duties as assigned

• Drive complex issues escalated from customers all over the world to resolution

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in computer science or computer engineering or in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience

• Minimum 3+ years leadership experience leading 2nd level technical support in a tiered support structure

• Technically savvy and efficient in troubleshooting end-to-end troubleshooting complex environments across multiple internal teams

• Experience supporting the Incident Management Process 

• A strong team player able to work well with differing personalities

• Strong leadership skills including with effective performance management and coaching/feedback techniques

• Have strong organization and analytical skills, with attention to detail and accuracy

• Experience with data logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Kibana, New Relic, DataDog 

• Experience with Business Intelligence tools and data analysis such as SQL, Querybook, Tableau, etc. 

• Demonstrate a data-led approach, combining data, context, research, and expertise to make business decisions 

• Solid written, oral skills with ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical clients

• Excellent problem-solving skills, including issue tracking, triaging and crisis management

• Knowledge of Lodging distribution, aka OTAs 

• Experience reviewing, creating, and modeling technical specifications

• ITIL, Agile, or SDLC experience, including Kanban boards and roadmaps

• Software QA experience

• Knowledge of GraphQL APIs or XML is a plus.

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