{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"6f4d13670b36ce703fcd5876","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6f4d13670b36ce703fcd5876","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6f4d13670b36ce703fcd5876","title":"Senior Manager, Information Technology","description":"Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you'll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.\r\nSenior IT Manager Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you'll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together.\r\nThe Appian Business Technology team is dedicated to building a secure, automated, and world-class operational foundation that fuels our global growth. We partner closely with international business units and internal stakeholders to ensure our technology platforms are robust, scalable, and highly available. Operating in a high-growth, fast-paced environment, we champion collaboration, continuous improvement, and data-driven automation to empower our business while reducing operational friction.\r\nAs the Senior IT Manager, Global Service Desk & AI Transformation, you will step into a high-visibility leadership role where you can leave your mark by modernizing our global support ecosystem and pioneering our internal AI enablement strategy. This isn\\'t just about maintaining a traditional help desk or checking ticket boxes—it\\'s about designing scalable global support processes from scratch, driving enterprise-wide AI literacy, and championing customer service excellence as we continue to grow.\r\nThis role is based at our HQ in McLean, VA. Appian was built on a culture of in-person collaboration, which we believe is a key driver of our mission to be the best. Employees hired for this position are expected to be in the office 4-5 days a week to foster that culture and ensure we continue to thrive through shared ideas and teamwork. We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.\r\nWhat You'll Do Design and Scale Globally: Architect, implement, and scale next-generation, follow-the-sun support processes that eliminate regional silos, establish global standard operating procedures, and deliver seamless, uniform customer service across all international offices.\r\nPioneer AI Adoption: Serve as the strategic internal catalyst for AI tool adoption, establishing the Global Service Desk as the central center of excellence and tier-1 support hub for all enterprise AI tools and applications.\r\nEmpower and Train: Design and execute comprehensive, company-wide training programs, prompt engineering workshops, and documentation to upskill Appianites globally, driving internal AI literacy and maximizing our corporate ROI on technology.\r\nElevate Customer Experience: Establish and monitor modern, user-centric Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) focused on first-contact resolution, reduced friction, and exceptional internal customer satisfaction scores.\r\nOptimize and Standardize: Centralize and optimize global hardware and software lifecycles, utilizing product standardization to minimize organizational costs while ensuring strict alignment with security and audit frameworks.\r\nDevelop Global Talent: Lead, mentor, and align geographically dispersed IT support teams, maintaining Appian\\'s commitment to recruiting early-career hires and actively developing them into senior, specialized technical roles.\r\nRequired Qualifications Experience: 5+ years of progressive experience in IT Support Management or Service Desk Leadership, with a proven track record of managing geographically dispersed teams in a global public company environment.\r\nProcess Engineering Mastery: Demonstrated success building and rewriting support processes from scratch, leveraging ITIL methodologies to radically modernize legacy frameworks and improve global service delivery.\r\nTechnical Breadth: Strong foundational knowledge of cross-border collaboration technologies, operating systems (Mac OS, Windows), virtual/cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Google Compute Engine, VMware), and core networking/security concepts.\r\nLeadership & Change Management: Exceptional presentation and communication skills, with a proven ability to lead company-wide digital transformation or training initiatives and influence stakeholders across various business units.\r\nCustomer Advocacy: An unwavering passion for extreme customer service, documentation quality, and a dedicated commitment to mentoring technical teams.\r\nPreferred Qualifications Certifications: Advanced ITIL Certification (v4 preferred) or other relevant technical and project management credentials.\r\nIndustry Background: Experience working within high-growth, technology-driven companies, financial services, or fast-paced SaaS environments.\r\nAI Savvy: Direct experience deploying, administering, or driving user adoption for enterprise AI collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, or custom internal LLMs).\r\nThe base salary range represents a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's relevant work experience, qualifications, internal peer equity, and market and business conditions that exist when extending an offer. A discretionary bonus may be awarded in recognition of individual and company performance.\r\nIn addition, Appian provides generous benefits offerings that include a 401(k) plan with company match, flexible time off, paid parental leave, medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, disability insurance, wellness programs, flexible spending accounts, health savings account contributions, an employee referral bonus program, and learning and development resources. Certain positions may be eligible for equity awards.\r\nPay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation, commission, bonus, or benefit plans.\r\nBase Salary Range $125,000 — $250,000 USD Tools and Resources\r\nTraining and Development: During onboarding, we focus on equipping new hires with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training. Continuous learning is a central focus at Appian, with dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program being widely utilized resources for new hires.\r\nGrowth Opportunities: Appian provides a diverse array of growth and development opportunities, including our leadership program tailored for new and aspiring managers, a comprehensive library of specialized department training through Appian University, skills based training, and tuition reimbursement for those aiming to advance their education. This commitment ensures that employees have access to a holistic range of development opportunities.\r\nCommunity: We'll immerse you into our community rooted in respect starting on day one. Appian fosters inclusivity through our 8 employee-led affinity groups. These groups help employees build stronger internal and external networks by planning social, educational, and outreach activities to connect with Appianites and larger initiatives throughout the company.\r\nBenefits\r\nAppian offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and financial future. Benefits may include health coverage, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free mental health support, life and disability insurance, an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), a retirement/pension plan, wellness dollars, tuition reimbursement, family-forming benefits and more. Benefits vary by country—please ask your Talent Acquisition contact for details specific to the location you are applying to.\r\nAbout Appian\r\nAppian provides AI automation for mission-critical work. We automate complex processes in large enterprises and governments. Our platform is known for its unique reliability and scale. We've been automating processes for more than 25 years and understand enterprise operations like no one else. For more information, visit appian.com. [Nasdaq: APPN]\r\nFollow Appian: LinkedIn, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook\r\nAppian is an equal opportunity employer that strives to attract and retain the best talent. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.\r\nAppian provides reasonable accommodations to applicants in accordance with all applicable laws. 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We believe being in the office provides more opportunities to come together and celebrate working with the exceptional people across Appian.\r\nWhat You'll Do Design and Scale Globally: Architect, implement, and scale next-generation, follow-the-sun support processes that eliminate regional silos, establish global standard operating procedures, and deliver seamless, uniform customer service across all international offices.\r\nPioneer AI Adoption: Serve as the strategic internal catalyst for AI tool adoption, establishing the Global Service Desk as the central center of excellence and tier-1 support hub for all enterprise AI tools and applications.\r\nEmpower and Train: Design and execute comprehensive, company-wide training programs, prompt engineering workshops, and documentation to upskill Appianites globally, driving internal AI literacy and maximizing our corporate ROI on technology.\r\nElevate Customer Experience: Establish and monitor modern, user-centric Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) focused on first-contact resolution, reduced friction, and exceptional internal customer satisfaction scores.\r\nOptimize and Standardize: Centralize and optimize global hardware and software lifecycles, utilizing product standardization to minimize organizational costs while ensuring strict alignment with security and audit frameworks.\r\nDevelop Global Talent: Lead, mentor, and align geographically dispersed IT support teams, maintaining Appian\\'s commitment to recruiting early-career hires and actively developing them into senior, specialized technical roles.\r\nRequired Qualifications Experience: 5+ years of progressive experience in IT Support Management or Service Desk Leadership, with a proven track record of managing geographically dispersed teams in a global public company environment.\r\nProcess Engineering Mastery: Demonstrated success building and rewriting support processes from scratch, leveraging ITIL methodologies to radically modernize legacy frameworks and improve global service delivery.\r\nTechnical Breadth: Strong foundational knowledge of cross-border collaboration technologies, operating systems (Mac OS, Windows), virtual/cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Google Compute Engine, VMware), and core networking/security concepts.\r\nLeadership & Change Management: Exceptional presentation and communication skills, with a proven ability to lead company-wide digital transformation or training initiatives and influence stakeholders across various business units.\r\nCustomer Advocacy: An unwavering passion for extreme customer service, documentation quality, and a dedicated commitment to mentoring technical teams.\r\nPreferred Qualifications Certifications: Advanced ITIL Certification (v4 preferred) or other relevant technical and project management credentials.\r\nIndustry Background: Experience working within high-growth, technology-driven companies, financial services, or fast-paced SaaS environments.\r\nAI Savvy: Direct experience deploying, administering, or driving user adoption for enterprise AI collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, or custom internal LLMs).\r\nThe base salary range represents a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's relevant work experience, qualifications, internal peer equity, and market and business conditions that exist when extending an offer. A discretionary bonus may be awarded in recognition of individual and company performance.\r\nIn addition, Appian provides generous benefits offerings that include a 401(k) plan with company match, flexible time off, paid parental leave, medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, disability insurance, wellness programs, flexible spending accounts, health savings account contributions, an employee referral bonus program, and learning and development resources. 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