Hybrid Critical Situation Manager – Critical Accounts Program

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About the role

  • Critical Situation Manager at Red Hat engaging with enterprise accounts to manage escalations. Leading cross-functional resolution efforts in complex customer scenarios within open source technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage critical customer situations by providing decisive leadership, balancing ambiguity, and ensuring effective resolution with measurable success criteria
  • Act as the primary resolution owner , driving the end-to-end management of escalations and coordinating cross-functional teams, partners, and stakeholders
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and ombudsman between customers, Support Delivery, Global Customer Success, Account Teams, and Engineering to ensure balanced outcomes
  • Communicate effectively with all levels of stakeholders , including C-level executives, delivering timely, impactful updates and managing expectations throughout the escalation lifecycle
  • Leverage strong technical expertise in the Red Hat (RH) product portfolio to translate complex technical issues into clear, business-relevant insights and action plans
  • Collaborate with engineering and support teams to validate, challenge, and refine technical recommendations, always maintaining a customer-first mindset
  • Develop and maintain trusted relationships with customers and partners to foster transparency, trust, and proactive engagement
  • Drive continuous improvement by identifying root causes of escalations and implementing preventive measures across processes, people, and technology
  • Coach and mentor team members, customers, and stakeholders, promoting knowledge sharing and strengthening escalation management capability
  • Act as a regional focal point for process improvement, offering guidance, recommendations, and support to enhance operational excellence and customer experience

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5+ years experience managing customer incident escalation and critical situations
  • A strong technical aptitude and experience working with enterprise technologies and platform solutions
  • Customer success, technical support delivery or account management experience
  • Experience with Open Source technologies is an advantage
  • Experience dealing with complex implementations/environments and multidisciplinary teams
  • Strong experience in communicating with diverse stakeholders with differing goals; from Support Delivery, Sales, to “C-Level” executives
  • Project management experience is an added advantage

Benefits

  • Several recognition programs to reward and celebrate success

Job title

Critical Situation Manager – Critical Accounts Program

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Salary

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Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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