Squad Manager
Company Description
Dynatrace provides software intelligence to simplify cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation. With automatic and intelligent observability at scale, our all-in-one platform delivers precise answers about the performance and security of applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the experience of all users to enable organizations to innovate faster, collaborate more efficiently, and deliver more value with dramatically less effort. That’s why many of the world’s largest organizations trust Dynatrace®️ to modernize and automate cloud operations, release better software faster, and deliver unrivalled digital experiences.
Job Description
As a squad manager, your core responsibilities include a deep level understanding of personnel (across multiple roles and varying levels of skills) and the management of the members of your team. You will also have direct ownership of the accounts under your team, specifically around growth and value provided to the client. Each squad will consist of 8-10 direct reports, managing 20-30 accounts for an annual revenue of 8-10 million USD. Responsibilities include:
Acting as a mentor and growing the more junior members on your squad
Conducting 1:1 meetings each month for all members of your team
Maintaining a comprehensive understanding of your squad members skills so you can effectively assign appropriate projects and accounts
Conducting reviews of all squad members 1-2 times per year
Understanding the status and health of accounts on your team, with a focus on the top 15 (largest ACV) and those that renew within the fiscal year
Holding weekly account reviews for your team pairs and providing updates and escalations of account issues
Attending meetings with internal teams to track and drive client maturity and strengthen relationships
Assisting in onboarding new hires to your team and with the shadowing program
Supporting new hire “Analyst” training, mock deliverables and customer facing deliverables (~6 hours per month)
Attending and providing direction on initial customer calls to help with difficult questions and engagement focus to ensure a good start
In partnership with your manager, helping with capacity planning for your squad
Working collaboratively with internal teams to communicate potential improvement to internal tooling, processes, and training
Assigning the appropriate resources on your team to assist with POC’s
Reporting on key metrics including value, growth/consumption, customer maturity, etc.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, statistics, mathematics, economics or other quantitative disciplines is required.
Minimum of 2 years of direct experience leading teams and driving cross functional collaboration
Preferred Requirements:
Must possess excellent organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills with a keen attention to detail
Has strong conceptualization and communication skills. Demonstrated ability to bring business and technical people together around clear product concepts, and to motivate them to deliver whole, working solutions
Proven ability to work under pressure; ability to handle multiple conflicting priorities
Recognizes and understands both personal and team dynamics and relationships, is empathetic to stakeholder concerns, is invested in the success of the team and effectively influences and persuades
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Expectation: all Insights team members are expected to travel at least 1/2 time per year for annual team meetings.
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Squad Manager
Company Description
Dynatrace provides software intelligence to simplify cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation. With automatic and intelligent observability at scale, our all-in-one platform delivers precise answers about the performance and security of applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the experience of all users to enable organizations to innovate faster, collaborate more efficiently, and deliver more value with dramatically less effort. That’s why many of the world’s largest organizations trust Dynatrace®️ to modernize and automate cloud operations, release better software faster, and deliver unrivalled digital experiences.
Job Description
As a squad manager, your core responsibilities include a deep level understanding of personnel (across multiple roles and varying levels of skills) and the management of the members of your team. You will also have direct ownership of the accounts under your team, specifically around growth and value provided to the client. Each squad will consist of 8-10 direct reports, managing 20-30 accounts for an annual revenue of 8-10 million USD. Responsibilities include:
Acting as a mentor and growing the more junior members on your squad
Conducting 1:1 meetings each month for all members of your team
Maintaining a comprehensive understanding of your squad members skills so you can effectively assign appropriate projects and accounts
Conducting reviews of all squad members 1-2 times per year
Understanding the status and health of accounts on your team, with a focus on the top 15 (largest ACV) and those that renew within the fiscal year
Holding weekly account reviews for your team pairs and providing updates and escalations of account issues
Attending meetings with internal teams to track and drive client maturity and strengthen relationships
Assisting in onboarding new hires to your team and with the shadowing program
Supporting new hire “Analyst” training, mock deliverables and customer facing deliverables (~6 hours per month)
Attending and providing direction on initial customer calls to help with difficult questions and engagement focus to ensure a good start
In partnership with your manager, helping with capacity planning for your squad
Working collaboratively with internal teams to communicate potential improvement to internal tooling, processes, and training
Assigning the appropriate resources on your team to assist with POC’s
Reporting on key metrics including value, growth/consumption, customer maturity, etc.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, statistics, mathematics, economics or other quantitative disciplines is required.
Minimum of 2 years of direct experience leading teams and driving cross functional collaboration
Preferred Requirements:
Must possess excellent organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills with a keen attention to detail
Has strong conceptualization and communication skills. Demonstrated ability to bring business and technical people together around clear product concepts, and to motivate them to deliver whole, working solutions
Proven ability to work under pressure; ability to handle multiple conflicting priorities
Recognizes and understands both personal and team dynamics and relationships, is empathetic to stakeholder concerns, is invested in the success of the team and effectively influences and persuades
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Expectation: all Insights team members are expected to travel at least 1/2 time per year for annual team meetings.