AppD SaaS Support Engineering - EMEA Regional Manager.

About the Role As the Regional Manager EMEA Support, you will work in tandem with your EMEA counterparts as well as with key members of the broader AppDynamics Customer Experience (CX) organization to ensure our customers receive best in class support. You will exemplify these traits ●Trust -We are one team, we trust and help each other and we celebrate our successes ●Empathy -We connect to customers, colleagues and partners at the human level and strive to understand their perspective. We excel at communicating with them. ●Technologists -We love technology and learn continuously. ●Problem solvers -We listen to our customers with curiosity and understand their business problem. We systematically and relentlessly pursue the true root cause of each issue and provide sustainable solutions. Key responsibilities (What Do You Do? ) 1.Manage a rapidly growing team of Support Engineers and technical leads, which provides best-in class multi-channel technical support to our enterprise customers. 2.Hire, develop, and retain the best talent in the industry. Be deeply vested in the success of every member of the Support organization, providing opportunities for development while ensuring accountability to each other as well as to our customers. 3.Synergize with peer Support Engineering Managers in EMEA other Geo locations to deliver a seamless world class experience to our customers. 4.Build positive, strong working relationships with Sales by articulating the value of AppDynamics Customer Experience and Support in particular and being a champion for the organization. 5.Maintain relationships with Customer Success, Professional Services and other key stakeholders within AppDynamics. 6.Act as an escalation point for support issues within EMEA and - as needed - manage the relationship with escalated accounts. 7.Lead, supervise, and oversee internal projects for support team to improve, grow, and optimize the support organization, including continuous improvement and a lessons learned processes 8.Define vision, set and communicate team goals, strategy, tactics and behaviours required to achieve those goals and operational KPIs. Foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement in the teams. Critical Experiences (What experiences do you need? ) ●Degree in Computer Science or similar technical field or in business disciplines ●10+ years of technical support management experience in an enterprise software company (of which 5+ for a SaaS vendor) with demonstrated expertise in customer facing roles. ●5+ years of people management experience leading engineers and/or technical/engineering support staff, including managing highly distributed teams. ●Excellent customer interaction and presentation skills (ability to present to different audiences, bring the message across in a concise, professional manner and instil confidence) ●Innate ability to methodically get to the root of problems and data-driven decision making. ●Knowledge of development methodologies and familiarity in at least one of the following domains and not limited to oJava o.NET oNodeJS oJavaScript ●Distributed Architecture and Cloud-based applications ●Experience and familiarity with AppDynamics or other APM tools is a plus ●Strong command of the English language (written and spoken) with each additional language a plus ●Willingness to work outside standard business hours when situations arise and able to travel to other locations and customer sites on occasion.