Team Leader – IT Service Desk

The Role

We’re looking for a New York based Team Leader to lead our AMER Service Desk, within Employee Technology Support. You will own team performance, development, service deliveryand escalations while ensuring a consistent, high-quality employee experience.

You will combine strong people leadership with technical and operational expertise, demonstrating end-to-end ownership, acting early on risk and using data, learning and root cause analysis to prevent repeat issues. You will work as part of one ETS team, partnering across Support, Engineering, Infrastructure and Product to improve tools, processes and service outcomes.

We’ll Trust You To

• - Lead, coach and develop a highperforming Service Desk team, creating shared accountability and continuous learning

• - Manage workload, escalations and service performance, with the employee experience at the center of decisionmaking

• - Act as an escalation point for complex technical and operational issues, ensuring issues are fully diagnosed and followed through to resolution

• - Identify recurring issues, knowledge gaps, reuse learning and drive rootcause fixes that reduce repeat demand

• - Act early on operational risks and communicate clearly with employees, stakeholders and partner teams

• - Drive knowledge, self-service, automationand process standardisation to improve service quality and efficiency

• - Partner effectively across ETS, Engineering, Infrastructure and Product, sharing context and ownership

• - Use service data to identify improvement opportunities and influence changes to tools, processesand policy

• - Maintain strong governance across tickets, documentation, procedures and service management practices

• - Support recruitment, resource planningand an inclusive, accountable team culture

You’ll Need To Have

• - 5+ years’ experience in IT support or service delivery, including 1+ year in a leadership role

• - Proven experience coaching, developing and performancemanaging technical support teams

• - Strong understanding of incident, request, problem, change and knowledge management practices

• - Strong enterprise technology knowledge across desktop, mobile, software, networking, VPN, peripherals and endpoint security

• - Strong judgement, problemsolving, communicationand stakeholder management skills

• - A track record of operating independently, taking end-to-end ownership and influencing improvements beyond your immediate team

• - Experience managing SLAs, KPIs, escalations and operational performance

• - Experience working successfully in a global, cross-functional support environment 

We’d Love To See

• - ITIL v4 Foundation certification

• - Experience delivering automation, self-serviceor workflow improvements

• - Experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams

• - Experience supporting a global 24/7 service model