GuidePoint Security - Manager, IT Service Delivery & Enterprise Applications- Remote (Anywhere in the U.S.)

• Lead two distinct operating functions: the Enterprise Applications support team through direct management of a team of application support professionals, and the IT Help Desk through its supervisor and frontline support staff • Serve as the operational leader for the IT Service Delivery and Enterprise Applications support functions, translating established priorities into defined workstreams, accountable owners, measurable outcomes, and a repeatable execution cadence • Manage, coach, and develop the Help Desk supervisor, Help Desk staff, and Enterprise Applications support personnel, including performance expectations, career development, succession coverage, cross-training, access readiness, and runbook ownership • Own end-to-end service performance across assigned support functions, including employee experience, queue health, ticket assignment, aging and idle work, meaningful first touch, SLA performance, customer communication, follow-through, and resolution quality • Establish and lead a consistent operating cadence for reviewing stale work, delay causes, escalations, recurring demand, service risks, blockers, owners, target dates, and continuous improvement actions • Partner with Systems Operations, Endpoint Engineering, Identity, Security, application delivery teams, and business owners to define support boundaries, escalation criteria, and effective L1/L2/L3 handoffs; Systems Operations and infrastructure engineering remain under the Director of IT Operations • Drive shift-left opportunities by expanding Help Desk and Enterprise Applications support capability through training, appropriate permissions, knowledge articles, runbooks, and repeatable troubleshooting procedures • Use service data, customer feedback, escalation patterns, and recurring issues to identify demand-reduction opportunities, application support trends, and prioritized process improvements • Lead frontline support for business-critical enterprise applications while partnering with application owners and delivery teams that retain product, platform, development, and architectural accountability; coordinate incidents, permissions, defects, enhancements, releases, and user-impacting changes • Coordinate Help Desk and Enterprise Applications responsibilities within employee onboarding, role changes, and offboarding, partnering with Endpoint, Identity, HR, Systems Operations, and other owners on readiness, access, asset recovery, and related evidence requirements • Develop and maintain decision-ready KPI and SLA definitions, operational dashboards, exception reporting, and leadership updates that explain performance, aging, delays, escalation patterns, workload, employee impact, service risks, and required management actions • Use Jira Service Management and Confluence as core operating tools for support queues, service workflows, escalation visibility, reporting, knowledge management, and continuous improvement • Develop and execute service automation initiatives aligned with the IT Operations roadmap, using Jira Service Management, workflow automation, self-service, and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce manual work, improve routing and follow-through, increase frontline resolution, and improve employee experience • Lead multi-function projects, service improvement initiatives, and significant employee-support or Enterprise Applications incidents, providing concise status, business impact, risk, dependency, and decision updates to IT leadership and stakeholders • Manage relevant vendor relationships, support performance, licensing needs, renewals, escalations, product-roadmap inputs, and operational handoffs for assigned platforms and services • Provide management-level escalation support for high-impact employee, application, and service issues as required • Perform other related duties as assigned.