Senior IT Manager, LaunchDarkly
$136.5-187.7k
+ Restricted Stock Units
More information about location
Office located in Oakland, CA
Feature management for software teams
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Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$136.5-187.7k
+ Restricted Stock Units
More information about location
Office located in Oakland, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can coach managers and individual contributors, improve systems and processes, and communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences
- You are a power user of AI in the workplace, with a track record of turning tools like Gemini, Claude, Glean, and automation platforms into real operational leverage across support workflows, knowledge management, and employee experience
- You lead with clarity and follow-through. You set expectations, make decisions, and help teams execute against defined goals
- You improve systems, not just tickets. You look for root causes, recurring friction, and process gaps, then create practical solutions
- You use data to guide action. You define meaningful metrics, review patterns, and use evidence to prioritize work and communicate tradeoffs
- You are an effective cross-functional partner. You work well with technical and non-technical teams and can align people around clear operational outcomes
- You coach teams to grow. You give direct, useful feedback, build accountability, and create conditions for managers and individual contributors to succeed
- You care about employee experience and operational excellence equally, and you know how to balance speed, quality, risk, and scale
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience, with sufficient related experience to operate at the Senior Manager level
- Experience leading IT service desk, endpoint engineering, or internal IT operations teams in a growing company, including responsibility for team planning, execution, and service delivery outcomes, with a strong understanding of ITIL-aligned practices including incident, request, change, escalation, and SLA management
- Demonstrated ability to identify, implement, and scale AI-enabled improvements in IT support operations, with sound judgment around governance, data handling, and measurable service outcomes
- Demonstrated experience leading teams and operational processes that rely on platforms such as Jira Service Management, Slack, Google Workspace, Claude, Glean, Okta, Apple Business Manager, and related IT service, identity, and device-management systems
- Experience managing experienced IT professionals across multiple workstreams, with accountability for performance, prioritization, and operational results
- Demonstrated ability to translate functional goals into operational processes, team priorities, support standards, and measurable service outcomes
- Experience overseeing core service desk and endpoint operations such as ticketing systems, knowledge management, hardware lifecycle management, identity-related support coordination, software access workflows, and onboarding/offboarding execution
- Ability to analyze service data, evaluate a variety of factors, and make sound operational decisions on issues of diverse scope
- Experience creating procedures, playbooks, escalation models, and documentation that improve consistency, scalability, and support quality
- Experience partnering across technical and business teams and communicating recommendations effectively across disciplines, including with customers, peer functions, and stakeholders outside their immediate area of expertise
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, performance management, feedback, hiring, and organizational planning
- Ability to lead in a hybrid environment and support distributed employees with clear processes, communication, and equitable service delivery
What the job involves
- LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Manager, IT (IT Service Desk Engineering) to lead the systems, processes, and people responsible for delivering reliable, scalable internal IT support and endpoint service operations
- This role is responsible for managing the service desk engineering function, improving the employee support experience, and building operational processes that help LaunchDarkly scale securely and efficiently
- This leader will manage a small (less than 10) global team in the US, Ireland, and India, to guide execution across service desk tooling, endpoint lifecycle processes, support workflows, knowledge management, and service delivery operations
- The role requires translating functional plans into operational processes, setting procedures that affect the department, and partnering across Security, People, Workplace, Procurement, and other IT teams to deliver consistent outcomes
- They will be successful by building a high-performing team, creating clear operational standards, using AI and data to improve service quality and efficiency, and ensuring day-to-day support operations can scale with company needs
- Lead the IT Service Desk Engineering function, including team operations, priorities, staffing, performance management, and day-to-day execution across employee-facing IT support services
- Manage the activities globally, with accountability for execution, workforce planning, and operational delivery
- Translate functional plans into operational processes and guide execution across service desk workflows, endpoint provisioning and deprovisioning, device management, support tooling, ticketing operations, and service request fulfillment
- Establish and improve procedures, standards, and operating rhythms that increase support quality, reduce manual effort, and create a more consistent employee experience
- Define, track, and review service metrics such as response times, resolution times, backlog, escalation rates, self-service adoption, customer satisfaction, asset turnaround times, and recurring issue trends
- Use data from support operations, endpoint management platforms, and employee feedback to identify service gaps, prioritize improvements, and deliver measurable operational results
- Partner closely with Security, Identity and Access Management, Enterprise Applications, Workplace, Procurement, Finance, and People teams to ensure IT support services align with compliance, onboarding, offboarding, access, and workplace operational requirements
- Drive service desk engineering improvements, including the use of AI and automation, workflow design, knowledge base maturity, intake optimization, and tool integrations that improve scale and reduce friction for employees and IT staff
- Ensure high-quality execution of onboarding, offboarding, hardware lifecycle, software access, and office-based support processes for a hybrid workforce
- Create clear escalation paths, incident coordination practices, and ownership models for employee-impacting support issues
- Build team capability through coaching, feedback, role clarity, and development planning for managers and individual contributors
- Communicate operational performance, risks, priorities, and recommendations across disciplines, adapting messaging for technical teams, functional peers, and business stakeholders
- Contribute to policy and procedure changes that affect the IT Service Desk Engineering function
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
Demonstrating its value to businesses, the platform is used by the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Recently it has seemed to focus on further scaling its growth as it develops towards being a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Co-founder, Executive Chair & CEO)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(Co-founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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