Manager, IT Service Desk

Dotdash Meredith
Los Angeles 1041 N. Formosa Ave, California
$90K-$110K a year
Full-time

Job Description

I. Job Summary

Reporting to the Senior Director, IT, manage a team of IT Service Desk technicians located in various offices throughout the country and Provide in-person support for our LA office.

The role supports our internal customers with desktop support issues primarily on-site, and remotely as needed. Support may take place in person, via phone, or Zoom.

The role is responsible for ensuring proper in-office staffing levels. This is an on-site role.

II. Essential Job Functions

Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results

Manage a team of 6 IT Service Desk technicians located in offices throughout the US.

Provide in-person tech support for the LA office.

Oversee management of the IT offices, workspaces, and storage facilities that fall under this role’s domain.

Work closely with the IT Service Desk team to ensure proper ticket ingestion and ticket flow throughout different IT groups.

Manage ticketing systems and queues for each location to coordinate workload for all technicians while providing exceptional resolution times.

Ensure enforcement of team SLAs.

Focus on automation and efficiency of existing and new processes and workflows. Oversee the implementation of enhancements.

Provide a point of escalation for desktop issues, including after-hour and weekend support for business-critical functions.

Monitor and track incident trends for each location to ensure proper escalation and responsiveness.

Provide backup support for conference room and Zoom support.

Participate in On-Duty rotation to manage our various On-Duty teams covering Walkup support, Slack, and ticket management.

In conjunction with IT management and peers, create and maintain team documentation and playbooks.

Work with and assist other IT Service Desk teams with end-user support as needed.

Manage hardware repairs with vendors.

Assist with asset management. Oversee management and auditing of hardware inventory.

Provide printer support.

Specifically assigned responsibilities beyond end-user support

Assist with ad-hoc and team projects as needed.

III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements

Education Bachelor’s degree preferred

Experience : Minimum of 7 years of experience in a technical support role, 3 years people management.

Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

Outstanding customer service powers

macOS and Windows 10 / 11 proficiency

Mac and PC hardware troubleshooting

Knowledge of Google Workspace and Office 365

Basic networking skills

Basic user administration skills (Via Okta or Active Directory)

Exceptional troubleshooting skills

Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment

Strong desire to learn new technologies and systems

Zoom and Zoom room support experience

Comfortable working with ticketing systems such as Jira Service Management

Ability to work occasionally after hours and on weekends for maintenance and as part of our on-call rotation.

Industry certifications are a plus

Travel Required : 10-15%

Pay Range

Salary : California : $90,000.00 - $110,000.00

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future.

Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance.

The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Meredith’s total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives.

In addition, Dotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location.

We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.

30+ days ago
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