Incident and Escalation Manager, EMEA

The Escalation Manager is a critical role within Technical Services. As a member of our global Incident and Escalation Management team, they work internally with our Engineering, Services, Sales and Product Management teams, as well as externally with customers and partners, to coordinate and drive the resolution of critical technical issues and incidents. Transparency is key and is achieved by providing timely and accurate updates to senior management regarding active escalations, as well as important detail on the status of the customer account. Individuals in this role are highly organized, proactive and professional. You are one who excels in fast-paced environments and can assess business impact, mobilize cross-functional teams, and drive technical escalations with urgency and ownership. We are looking for someone who has a customer-focused mindset with excellent communication and expectation-setting abilities. You have a technical background in Support, Services, DevOps, Systems Engineering, or Database environments, and are experienced in incident response or crisis management. You will have strong negotiation and objection-handling skills, along with the ability to deliver concise, actionable reporting for escalations and post-mortem reviews. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. Role summary Critical Situation Management is the defining capability of this Escalation Manager role. You will lead MongoDB’s most complex and consequential customer situations, bringing calm, disciplined Incident Command to high-pressure events where technical ambiguity, business risk, and executive scrutiny converge. You will establish command and control, mobilize the right cross-functional responders, and maintain a clear operating rhythm from situation declaration through mitigation, recovery, closure, and follow-through. At the same time, you will directly manage customer confidence and executive expectations, translating

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications. The Escalation Manager is a critical role within Technical Services. As a member of our global Incident and Escalation Management team, they work internally with our Engineering, Services, Sales and Product Management teams, as well as externally with customers and partners, to coordinate and drive the resolution of critical technical issues and incidents. Transparency is key and is achieved by providing timely and accurate updates to senior management regarding active escalations, as well as important detail on the status of the customer account. Individuals in this role are highly organized, proactive and professional. You are one who excels in fast-paced environments and can assess business impact, mobilize cross-functional teams, and drive technical escalations with urgency and ownership. We are looking for someone who has a customer-focused mindset with excellent communication and expectation-setting abilities. You have a technical background in Support, Services, DevOps, Systems Engineering, or Database environments, and are experienced in incident response or crisis management. You will have strong negotiation and objection-handling skill

About the Team The Senior Support Engineering team is responsible for ensuring that developers and enterprises can reliably build mission critical solutions using OpenAI models. We provide technical guidance, resolve complex issues and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our highly-capable models. We work closely with Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. We think from an automation-first mindset and leverage the latest in AI to scale our support operations. Join the Senior Support Engineering (SSE) team at OpenAI and help shape the future of Technical Support in the age of AI. About the Role We’re looking for a Support Engineering Manager to build and guide a high-performing team of experienced Senior Support Engineers with backgrounds in software engineering, site reliability engineering, and systems architecture. These engineers are trusted to operate with autonomy, tackle deeply technical challenges, and serve as the final escalation point before Engineering. In this role, you'll lead a team focused on deep problem-solving, proactive reliability work, and customer-specific troubleshooting. You’ll drive the design and operations of OpenAI’s incident management processes, including tooling, automations, and training, and ensure they are scalable and resilient. You’ll also oversee strategic customer workload monitoring, alerting, and a 24x7 rotation to ensure high-priority issues are caught early and handled with urgency. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Technical Success, and field teams to improve the supportability of our products, reduce operational burden, and shape the future of AI-driven technical support. Your team will own incident response playbooks, build internal automations, and serve as technical stewards for our most strategic accounts. This is an opportunity to define what world-class technical support looks like in the

About the Team The Solutions Engineering team consists of trusted technical advisors who help organizations adopt OpenAI’s technology safely, effectively, and responsibly. We partner closely with customers, Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and Security to translate frontier AI capabilities into practical workflows that create measurable impact. Cybersecurity is one of the most important areas where AI can help. As frontier models become increasingly capable of reasoning across code, logs, infrastructure, vulnerabilities, and security evidence, customers need expert guidance to evaluate and deploy these systems safely. Our Field Security Specialists help security leaders and practitioners apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, agentic workflows, and emerging cyber capabilities to real defensive challenges. About the Role We are looking for a Manager of Field Security Specialists to build and lead our customer-facing cyber solutions engineering function. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can develop an exceptional team while remaining close to the technology and our customers. You will establish the operating model for the function, raise the quality of specialist engagements, and personally support our most strategic and technically complex customer opportunities. You will work across CISO-level strategy, practitioner-level cybersecurity challenges, and hands-on solution design. Your team will help customers explore workflows including application security, secure software development, vulnerability management, threat modeling, cloud and identity security, SOC operations, detection engineering, incident response, and security validation. This is not an internal CISO or corporate incident-response role. It is a customer-facing leadership opportunity focused on helping defenders achieve safe, measurable outcomes with frontier AI. In this role, you will: Hire, coach, develop, and lead a high-performing team of Field Security Specialists. Establish the

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Security Incident Response team is responsible for triaging and assessing the severity of incoming security alerts, responding with initial containment measures and escalating as needed to incident responders for further investigation and resolution. They analyze a variety of data sources to identify potential threats, collect requirements for operational enhancements to detection and response systems, and generally scale security processes. From external attacks to insider threats, our goal is to respond with speed and precision, remediate, and support the incident postmortem process. The team is distributed globally and regularly coordinates with stakeholders in North America, Europe, and Asia. What you’ll do You will leverage your security incident response experience to improve capabilities at Stripe. You will manage and coordinate the entire incident response process, developing and implementing incident response plans, conducting risk assessments, establishing procedures, leading workstreams, and ensuring timely and effective resolution. You will also act as incident commander, collaborating with various internal stakeholders, performing post-incident analysis and reporting, and making continuous improvements to Stripe’s security engineering and incident response function. Responsibilities Lead and coordinate security incident response activities and workstreams as the incident response manager (IRM) Analyze and inv

At MongoDB, we are disrupting industries and equipping developers with the tools to create extraordinary applications that impact daily lives. As the leading developer data platform and the pioneering database vendor to execute an IPO in over two decades, we offer an environment at the cutting edge of creativity and innovation. The international data management software landscape is vast and expanding swiftly. Data from IDC indicates the global database management systems (DBMS) software market was valued at roughly $82 billion in 2023 and is projected to scale to approximately $200 billion by 2030, demonstrating an exceptional compound annual growth rate. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin or Cork for our hybrid working model. The Role & Team Overview We are seeking an accomplished technical leader to join our Technical Services organization as the head of the EMEA Incident & Escalation Management teams. In this critical capacity, you will guide the teams responsible for ensuring our clients can smoothly operate MongoDB at scale and seamlessly navigate any technical hurdles. This position demands a leader who can maintain a hands-on approach—taking direct ownership of high-profile escalations that require coordinated corporate responses—while concurrently expanding the team, refining processes, and advancing strategic objectives within a global critical situations management framework. Team Overview: As an integral component of the Customer Organization, Technical Services boasts more than 500 global members across worldwide offices. We maintain industry-leading customer satisfaction metrics through a 24x7x365 'follow-the-sun' support framework, with specialized regional teams across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. The EMEA team operates out of hubs including Dublin, Milan, Barcelona, and Tel Aviv. Core Responsibilities Collaborating with global leadership to architect and execute strategic plans for critical situations management,