Collaboration & Productivity Platforms, Manager

LiveRamp is shaping the future of responsible data collaboration between the world’s leading brands, retailers, financial services providers, and healthcare innovators. As consumers embrace new AI-driven experiences, the LiveRamp data collaboration network exponentially expands the breadth and accuracy of the data on which marketing AI capabilities operate, powering deeper customer insight and measurable performance on a global scale. LiveRamp is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices worldwide. Learn more at LiveRamp.com.

You will:

We're looking for a hands‑on people leader to own our enterprise collaboration and productivity platform portfolio.You You'll lead a small technical team based in Hyderabad, set the technical strategy and roadmap for these platforms, and stay directly involved in configuration, integrations, and troubleshooting. This is a player‑coach role: you'll split your time between leading and developing your team and doing hands‑on platform work yourself.

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, integrations, administration, operations, reliability, and roadmap for our internal collaboration and productivity platform portfolio.
• Lead, mentor, hire, and develop a technical team in Hyderabad that collaborates closely with globally distributed IT, Engineering, and Security teams.
• Engage directly with internal stakeholders to understand their needs, improve platform adoption, resolve recurring or systemic issues, and continuously improve the employee technology experience.
• Manage vendor relationships for the platforms you own: track product roadmaps, releases, and capabilities, and translate relevant developments into concrete value for LiveRamp.
• Apply an automation‑first and AI‑first approach to service delivery, platform operations, observability, reporting, and everyday employee workflows.
• Contribute hands‑on through design reviews, proofs of concept, configuration, implementation, and troubleshooting — this is not a purely oversight role.
• Partner with IT, Engineering, Security, and business leaders to align platform investments with company priorities.
• Collaborate periodically across international time zones, including occasional planned evening or early‑morning overlap with global teams — distinct from any formal on‑call responsibilities.

About you:

• Experience owning enterprise collaboration and IT service management (ITSM) platforms end‑to‑end, including architecture, configuration, integrations, and vendor management.
• Hands‑on, working experience managing platforms such as Google WorkSpace, Slack, and Atlassian products (Jira/Jira Service Management, and Confluence). freshservice, — transferable experience across comparable enterprise platforms is valued as much as experience with these exact products.
• Experience directly managing and developing a technical team, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working across time zones with globally distributed teams.

Preferred Skills:

• ITIL or equivalent ITSM process certification
• Experience managing ITSM platforms such as FreshService.
• Experience managing SaaS vendor contracts, renewals, and license optimization.
• Prior experience in a player‑coach role balancing people leadership with hands‑on technical delivery.

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