Fonetic is a company in full growth within the Financial
Market, developing a custom platform for Financial Market Compliance and
Surveillance, that helps banking institutions and government regulators
prevent and uncover fraud.
We’ve made terrific progress but
there is still an incredible number of new features waiting to be done.
We’ve only just scratched the surface on how we can apply our vision and
technology to this problem.
We pride ourselves in doing modern
software development with modern tools and processes and on continuously
improving in all areas.
We look for people with broad interests,
a focus on solving problems and who understand that languages or
technologies can be interchanged in most situations and are not really
the goal, but the means.
We work with Agile methodologies, we
use Kanban, but we adapt our processes to the product and team needs. We
will use the methodology that best fits to our needs at every moment,
we work on continuous improvement model.
If this sounds interesting, please keep on reading.
Position summary
The Head of Support at Fonetic is responsible
for global support delivery in the trading area including all aspects of
customer issues, strategic planning and execution, that insures that
the global support team is performing at the highest levels of
efficiency.
The focus is to drive the business
forward to create stronger relationships, convert more prospects into
customers, increase sales, create operational efficiency, and lastly
create a fun and motivational environment that attracts the best of the
best.
This is a very hands-on leadership
position. We are interested in candidates that lead by actions and
examples, not by pure delegation. Given the size and deeply technical
nature of the organization, a proven history of technical depth of
understanding and hands on experience with Cloud deployments (AWS
primarily, but not only), Unix and Windows systems administration,
complex distributed system troubleshooting and relational and
non-relation database technologies is a definite plus.
Job responsibilities
- Reporting to Delivery Director, the Head
of Support will lead the department which provides technical support to
the Fonetic Trade Comms Suite customers:
- Develop and achieve support objectives and goals aligned with the organizational vision.
- Lead high performing teams of Support Service Specialists and Support Engineers.
- Evaluate, implement and manage Technical Support systems (i.e. Zendesk) to provide organizational efficiency.
- Monitor
and participate in outbound, cross functional and senior staff level
communications to insure the right messaging is managed at the
appropriate level for all significant and critical issues. Exceptional
communications skills, written and oral in both, English and Spanish are
essential.
- Manage key performance metrics to ensure best in class technical support delivery.
- Build
and maintain the long-term vision and plan for growth of the technical
support organization, which includes analyzing cost structure, capacity
usage, service consistency and process optimization to ensure service
quality.
- Manage customer relationship models. Work with customers on support issues, individual support plans and requests.
- Ensure customer satisfaction reflects the highest quality of support delivery.
- Follow up with customers on survey feedback regularly.
- Engage with the Sales Account Team and the Project Teams on pro-active strategies for key accounts.
- Foster
a culture of engagement and excitement. Build meaningful people
relations to foster a results-driven environment where employees feel
empowered
Position requirements
- Experience working with a very technical
support team focusing on efficient troubleshooting on complicated
distributed systems deployed in various customer environments.
- Proven track record of implementing process improvements resulting in increased customer satisfaction
- Proven
ability to work in an environment with limited processes and customer
focus and create a best in class customer experience.
- Experience building and executing strategic growth plans for a customer service organization
- Experience in leading a global technical support team.
- Advanced English is a must.
- Experience in managing system cloud deployments.
Nice to Have
- 10+ years of leading a global technical support team
- Zendesk knowledge.
- Strong
background in ITIL process oriented framework and Service Management
best practices. including ITIL certification (Foundation, Service
Operation, Service Transition).
Technical background
- Familiar to and having hands on experience on the following technologies/systems (in order of relevance):
- AWS.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012 R2/2016.
- Unix-based operating systems
- IIS Sites/Applications/Services.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2012 R2/2016.
- SQL.
- Elastic Search.
- Cassandra (or any other non-relational database).
- Batch scheduling systems (Control-M).
- Demonstrated experience with IT Service Management tools (Remedy, JIRA, Zendesk, HP Service Manager…).
What do we offer?
- Get into the world of unstructured data processing and learn about how big enterprises work.
- Get integrated in a multidisciplinary environment with
(developers, computational linguists, AI specialists, data scientists,
QA engineers and speech scientists)
- International environment: more than 11 nationalities
- Get into the world of unstructured data processing and learn about how big enterprises work
- Full-time job, permanent contract
- Flexible schedule and teleworking
- A competitive salary
- Flexible remuneration
- Employee Referral Program
- Training
- A great environment to grow while having fun
And… because not everything is to work, we also offer you
- 23 annual leave days, and all Fridays and July and August intensive working days
- Fonetic takes care of your health, so:
Free coffee, tea and milk
Free fruit on Monday
Discount on the gym
Sport activities: running, paddle tennis and Football Team
It's a great opportunity to work in a fun and dynamic
environment, full of creativity, applying edge technology to financial
markets, lowering the overall entities risk with regulators and making
compliance easier to work with.
If you are interested, please apply and we'll contact you and schedule an interview.
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