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Our Team

VistaPrint is the design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses worldwide to professionally promote their business with quality printed and digital marketing products at an affordable price! Over 80 product teams in our engineering department build and operate frontends, services, data pipelines, and ML models with a “You Build It, You Run It” principle. 

Incident management at VistaPrint is all about uncovering the unknown and helping our organization to continually increase its operational posture. It goes beyond pure remediation and plays a crucial role in learning from incidents and driving learning for the organization as a whole. The Incident Management team's primary goal is to reduce the likelihood of major incidents, minimize impact, and reduce the duration of incidents across the services we build and operate. We support teams in identifying, triaging, and coordinating the remediation of production incidents, both large and small. We help teams to be prepared for future incidents by advising on monitoring and alerting practices, running incident drills, and sharing of best practices. It's an exciting time to join our team as we continue to prioritize operational excellence so that all our experiences delight our customers.

What You Will Do

The Senior Manager, Incident Management will oversee the Incident Management team within VistaPrint Engineering. This role is crucial for advancing our service operations and incident remediation maturity. The successful candidate will drive initiatives to proactively improve our incident preparedness and our organization’s maturity in running 500+ services. They will optimize our processes and systems to reduce MTTD and MTTR, champion organizational learning from incidents, and strengthen communication and stakeholder relationships. 

Leadership and Strategy

Develop and implement a strategy for the Incident Management to improve incident identification, handling, reporting, and prevention Establish, align, and communicate clear priorities, objectives, and key results Lead, mentor, and develop a global, follow-the-sun team of incident managers

Incident Management

Oversee incident resolution to minimize the customer and business impact Improve our incident management procedures Enhance the quality, rigor, and technical depth of our post-mortem analyses Establish a culture of continuous learning and blameless retrospectives Ensure action items get implemented

Continuously Grow the Organizational Maturity

Define and implement organizational-wide initiatives to measure the health of our systems (SLIs / SLOs) and to improve triaging and resolving of incidents

Share lessons learned to prevent the recurrence of similar issues

Reporting and Metrics

Improve our key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure our ability to react to incidents

Use data-driven insights to identify trends and areas for improvement

Disseminate and review regular updates and KPIs with the organization and senior leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across Product Development, CARE, Categories, or Merchandising

Act as a point of escalation for incidents

Your Qualifications

At VistaPrint, we are striving to hire individuals that add new ideas and perspectives to our teams and enhance our culture. No matter your background or work experience, we strongly encourage you to apply—even if you feel that you don’t meet the exact requirements or have the same qualifications. You might be a great candidate for this or other opportunities.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field  Experience in a senior leadership role in Incident Management Exceptional leadership, coaching, and team management skills

Familiarity with operating model in large, complex tech organizations

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills in a global organization

Experience in driving reliability initiatives, such as improving incident responses, implementing reliability goals, or chaos engineering

Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities

Nice to Have

Experience in driving organizational change across the organization to increase incident response and resilience Technical understanding of cloud-based architectures and a systems thinker ability to go deep with Engineers on a technical level Experience with incident management, tracking, and observability tools, such as PagerDuty, Incident.io/FireHydrant, NewRelic, QuantumMetrics, or Cortex

Why You'll Love Working Here

There is a lot to love about working at VistaPrint. We are an award winning Remote-First company. We’re an inclusive community. We’re growing (which means you can too). And to help orient us all in the same direction, we have our Vista Behaviors which exemplify the behavioral attributes that make us a culturally strong and high-performing team.

About Us

VistaPrint is the design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. For over 20 years we’ve been inspired by small businesses, and we work incessantly to deliver solutions to their evolving needs. Together, VistaCreate, 99designs by Vista and VistaPrint represent a full-service design, digital and print solution, elevating small businesses’ presence in physical and digital spaces and powering them to achieve success. VistaPrint is focused on making great marketing and design accessible to every small business owner, allowing them to create a cohesive brand image for use in-store, online and on-the-go.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

VistaPrint exists to help our customers live their dreams. Each dream is unique – and the VistaPrint team needs to be as well. We believe in the unique contributions of everyone within a diverse global organization. We are collaborative, inclusive, and innovative. We strive to role model and live an inclusive culture of fairness, respect and belonging for all. And we work together to empower each other, creating a space in which each of us can spark our next great idea.

Equal Opportunity Employer

VistaPrint, a Cimpress company, is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, citizenship, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender presentation, legal or preferred name, marital status, pregnancy, family structure, veteran status or any other basis protected by human rights laws or regulations. This list is not exhaustive and, in fact, in many cases, we strive to do more than the law requires.

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