Escalation Manager - EST hours

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is a globally distributed, multi-cloud database available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

The Escalation Manager is a critical role within Technical Services. As a member of the global Incident and Escalation Management team, this person works internally with Engineering, Services, Sales, and Product Management, and externally with customers and partners, to coordinate and drive resolution of critical technical issues and incidents.

In addition to managing active escalations, this role helps lead cross-functional improvement work that strengthens response to complex customer situations, improves operational excellence, and helps prevent repeat issues. The ideal candidate can operate with urgency while also stepping back to identify themes, drive projects, and influence better outcomes across teams.

Individuals in this role are highly organized, proactive, and professional. They excel in fast-paced environments, assess business impact, mobilize cross-functional teams, drive technical escalations with urgency and ownership, and create alignment in ambiguous, high-pressure situations. They bring a customer-focused mindset, strong communication and expectation-setting ability, and a technical background in Support, Services, DevOps, Systems Engineering, or database-related environments, along with incident response or crisis management experience. They also bring strong negotiation and objection-handling skills and can deliver concise, actionable reporting for escalations and post-mortem reviews.

We’re looking to speak with candidates on the east coast, either local to one of our offices or remote.

Position Expectations

• Escalation Ownership: Manage a portfolio of high-impact, long-running escalations and drive them to resolution
• Stakeholder Management: Map customer stakeholders, set and reset expectations, and maintain clear, consistent communication
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with Engineering and Field leadership to secure resources and drive issue resolution
• Call Leadership: Organize and lead internal and customer calls, ensuring alignment and progress across teams
• Executive Communication: Maintain a regular communication cadence, including executive summaries for internal stakeholders
• Risk Management: Ensure timely delivery of commitments by proactively communicating risks or changes
• Resolution Quality: Deliver high-quality incident resolution focused on root cause analysis, prevention, and knowledge transfer
• Trend Analysis: Track and analyze escalation trends to contribute to continuous process improvement
• Improvement Leadership: Lead cross-functional initiatives and small to medium projects that improve escalation management, incident handling, stakeholder communication, and customer outcomes
• Programmatic Change: Identify recurring operational gaps and drive improvements from problem statement through rollout and results tracking
• Leadership Without Authority: Provide leadership in complex or ambiguous situations by creating alignment and driving progress without direct authority

What You’ll Need

• Escalation Experience: 3+ years managing highly technical customer escalations in the software industry
• Customer Engagement: Experience managing customer engagement throughout the lifecycle of a case
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Skill in conducting customer-facing and internal technical root cause analysis
• Incident Tooling: Experience using PagerDuty and managing incidents
• Technical Depth: Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, including experience with distributed systems and advanced computing concepts
• Technical Environment: Familiarity with Linux, cloud platforms, and database technologies
• Business Environment: Experience working with customers, stakeholders, and vendors in corporate or vendor environments
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ): High emotional intelligence, a customer-focused mindset, and a strong desire to help others
• Adaptability: Ability to learn new technologies quickly and think clearly in complex situations
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication, including experience engaging executives and translating technical issues for diverse audiences
• Improvement Leadership: Experience leading cross-functional projects or operational improvement initiatives in a technical or customer-facing environment
• Influence: Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, create alignment, and drive execution without direct managerial authority

Desired Skills & Experience

• Engineering Fluency: Experience in software engineering, including comfort with programming, queries, and command-line operations
• Customer-Facing Technical Work: Background in technical support, customer success, or account management at a database or distributed systems company; NoSQL experience preferred
• Infrastructure Administration: Hands-on experience as a database, network, or storage administrator
• Cloud Depth: Cloud expertise across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including familiarity with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments
• Data-Driven Improvement: Experience using data, recurring themes, and post-incident learnings to drive process improvement or programmatic change
• Leadership Presence: Strong leadership presence with the ability to bring structure to ambiguity and help teams navigate high-pressure situations
• Regulated Environments: Experience managing escalations for security-sensitive or regulated customer environments

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.