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Jackson · 1 day ago

Team Lead, Service Desk

Jackson is seeking a Service Desk Team Lead who will serve as the primary point of contact and technical escalation within the service desk team. This role involves providing advanced troubleshooting, mentoring team members, and ensuring high-quality support while maintaining service excellence and adherence to SLAs.

Financial Services
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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Serves as the senior technical resource for the service desk team, providing advanced support and guidance on complex incidents and requests
Assists in training, coaching, and developing service desk analysts to improve technical proficiency and customer service skills
Oversees ticket queues to ensure timely resolution and proper prioritization of issues in accordance with SLAs
Acts as the escalation point for unresolved or high-impact issues, coordinating with infrastructure, application, and security teams as needed
Identifies opportunities to streamline service desk operations, enhance documentation, and improves efficiency and service quality
Maintains and updates knowledge base articles, FAQs, and troubleshooting guides to support consistent and effective issue resolution
Monitors service desk performance metrics, analyzes trends, and provides feedback to management on team performance and operational improvements
Ensures all interactions are handled professionally and courteously, maintaining a strong focus on user satisfaction and communication
Adheres to organizational policies, IT security standards, and regulatory requirements in all service desk activities
Participates in the call queue reserved for executive-level or escalation transfers, ensuring prompt, professional, and effective resolution of high-priority issues

Qualification

IT service managementITSM toolsTroubleshooting skillsIncident managementChange managementCybersecurity awarenessCommunication skillsTime managementHardware knowledgeSoftware knowledgeWindows 10/11Active DirectoryMicrosoft Office 365Leadership experience

Required

Bachelor's Degree and/or equivalent experience required
5+ years IT experience required
Experience supporting a wide-variety of hardware and software platforms, including: Desktops, Laptops, printers, Windows 10 and 11, Mac OS, Active Directory, Office 365 and mobile devices (iPhone/iPad, Android, Windows) and enterprise video conferencing platforms required

Preferred

2+ years serving in a management/leadership role preferred

Company

Jackson is a financial services company dedicated to helping people pursue financial freedom for life.

H1B Sponsorship

Jackson has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (8)
2024 (6)
2023 (9)
2022 (7)
2021 (10)
2020 (18)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1.05B
Key Investors
Athene
2023-03-06Post Ipo Equity· $550M
2021-09-20IPO
2020-06-18Secondary Market· $500M

Leadership Team

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Laura Prieskorn
Chief Executive Officer
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Alison Reed
Chief Operations Officer
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