Director, Advocacy Operations – Enterprise Incident Management

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About the role

  • Director leading Calix’s customer advocacy and enterprise incident management organization. Protecting broadband-provider operations through incident command, escalations, recovery, and crisis readiness.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the newly unified advocacy organization focused on customer success
  • Oversee enterprise incident command, executive escalations, critical account recovery, customer action plans, and operational governance
  • Own enterprise incident management processes and governance and lead Incident Managers
  • Serve as enterprise incident command for product, platform, cybersecurity, facilities, business continuity, third-party, and supply-chain incidents
  • Activate and quarterback incident bridges, assign incident roles, drive decisions, actions, and closure
  • Maintain on-call rosters, escalation trees, activation models, command structures, contact trees, bridge infrastructure, and incident tooling
  • Establish unified severity taxonomies, response frameworks, communication standards, and executive reporting
  • Coordinate customer-facing incident communications with Corporate Communications, Legal, and Support
  • Lead post-incident reviews and corrective action plans
  • Manage executive-level customer escalations through resolution as the single operational owner
  • Develop playbooks, workflows, operating rhythms, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Run annual tabletop exercises and simulations and convert findings into readiness improvements
  • Interface with crisis management teams and executive staff during high-severity events
  • Partner cross-functionally with Customer Success, Support, Product, Engineering, Sales, Renewal, Security, IT, Services, Legal, Facilities, and Communications
  • Influence prioritization of systemic customer-impacting issues and escalate organizational barriers

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Customer Success, Support, Customer Operations, Incident Management, Escalations, or related customer-facing functions
  • 5+ years leading managers and building high-performing teams in a SaaS, technology, telecommunications, or subscription business environment
  • Proven success leading executive escalations, major incidents, customer recovery programs, and cross-functional operational teams
  • Experience building scalable operating models, governance frameworks, KPIs, and executive reporting
  • Demonstrated ability to hire, coach, develop, and retain leaders while building succession plans and leadership bench strength
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to influence Product, Engineering, Sales, Success, and Support leaders
  • Ability to balance customer advocacy, employee development, and business outcomes in high-pressure environments
  • Experience with Salesforce, customer success platforms, service management tools, and operational analytics preferred
  • Track record of improving organizational performance, employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and operational excellence

Benefits

  • Bonus eligibility
  • Employee benefits package (details provided via benefits link)

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$133,200 - $272,600 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Cyber Security

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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