Manager of IT Operations

What we’re building and why we’re building it.

Fetch helps people live rewarded every day, with a vision to become the rewards destination for everyone. We turn everyday activities into meaningful rewards, whether it’s grocery shopping, grabbing a quick meal, or playing a favorite mobile game. To date, we’ve awarded more than $1 billion in Fetch Points to our users.

Each day, more than 13 million receipts are submitted on Fetch, providing visibility into over $212 billion in gross merchandise value. This creates the largest retail-agnostic, SKU-level view of household spending, powering Fetch as an outcomes-based advertising platform that helps brands acquire and retain lifelong consumers.

The Fetch app is available on the App Store and Google Play, with more than 6 million five-star reviews from a highly engaged and loyal user base.

It’s not just our users who believe in Fetch: with investments from Softbank, ICONIQ, DST, Greycroft, and partnerships ranging from challenger brands to Fortune 500 companies, Fetch is reshaping how brands and consumers connect in the marketplace. When you work at Fetch, you play a vital role in a platform that drives brand loyalty and creates lifelong consumers with the power of Fetch points. User and partner success are at the heart of everything we do, and we extend that same commitment to our employees.

At Fetch, we value curiosity, adaptability, and the confidence to explore new tools, especially AI, to drive smarter, faster work. You don’t need to be an expert, but you should be ready to learn quickly and think critically. We welcome learners who move fast, challenge the status quo, and shape what’s next, with us. Ranked as one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes for two years in a row, Fetch fosters a people-first culture rooted in trust, accountability, and innovation. We encourage our employees to challenge ideas, think bigger, and always bring the fun to Fetch.

Position Summary

The Manager of IT Operations owns day-to-day operations management, SLA performance, and people leadership for the IT Operations team. Today, a small group of generalists (service desk, endpoint, identity, and platform work all bundled into the same people) reports up to a Senior Director who is also responsible for security, AI governance, and executive stakeholder management. This role closes that gap so the team gets focused coaching, prioritization, and operating rhythm, and so the Senior Director can stay focused on governance and cross-functional strategy instead of tactical operations escalations.

This role inherits full people-management responsibility for the existing IT Operations engineers (the current IT Operations engineers, including offshore contractors).

Role Purpose

• Provide dedicated, full-time people management and operational leadership to team.
• Own service desk SLA performance and the health of the operational backlog.
• Give the IT Operations Lead a manager to escalate to.
• Reduce interrupt-driven context-switching by owning prioritization and triage decisions at the team level.

Key Responsibilities

1. People Management & Team Leadership

• Conduct regular one-on-ones, set individual performance expectations, and deliver formal feedback, including performance improvement plans and disciplinary action when warranted.
• Build a team operating rhythm: stand-ups, backlog reviews, incident reviews, and coverage planning.
• Support the IT Operations Lead's technical and operational coordination work while retaining final accountability for personnel outcomes.

2. Service Desk & SLA Ownership

• Own service-level performance for the ITDESK queue: time to first response, time to resolution, backlog age, and satisfaction.
• Identify patterns behind missed targets and drive process, tooling, staffing, or documentation changes to correct them.
• Ensure clean handoffs between frontline support, IT engineers, Security, People Experience, and other cross-functional partners.

3. Operational Backlog & Delivery Management

• Own the IT Operations backlog: prioritization, sequencing, and tradeoffs when demand exceeds capacity.
• Track delivery of operational projects (SaaS rollouts/retirements, office technology changes, workflow automation) to completion.
• Communicate delivery risk, resourcing constraints, and priority conflicts to the Senior Director before they become escalations.

4. Endpoint, Identity, and SaaS Operations Oversight

• Provide management oversight of endpoint/hardware lifecycle, identity and access provisioning/deprovisioning, and SaaS administration performed by the team.
• Partner closely with the Sr. IT Engineer (IAM & Platform) on identity governance, entitlement reviews, and platform administration priorities.
• Ensure onboarding/offboarding SLAs are met and exceptions are tracked and resolved.

5. Incident Coordination & Escalation

• Serve as the management escalation point for operational incidents that exceed the IT Operations Lead's authority or require cross-functional or vendor coordination.
• Ensure recurring incidents receive root-cause analysis and are tracked to remediation.
• Escalate security-relevant findings to the Director of Information Security promptly.

6. Vendor & SaaS Management

• Own vendor relationship management for IT Operations-administered platforms (Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, endpoint management tools, etc.).
• Support contract renewal preparation with usage, cost, and risk data.
• Drive license rightsizing and cost-control initiatives.

7. Team Structure & Growth Planning

• Partner with the Senior Director on sequencing and justifying future IT Operations hires (Service Desk Lead, Tools & Automation Engineer, additional platform engineers) as the team's target structure is built out.

8. Reporting & Stakeholder Communication

• Provide the Senior Director with regular visibility into service health, backlog risk, team capacity, and delivery commitments.
• Prepare or contribute to recurring operational reporting (SLA performance, ticket trends, project status).
• Represent IT Operations in cross-functional working sessions as delegated.

Decision Rights

Within approved budget, policy, and priorities, the Manager of IT Operations is authorized to:

• Hire, manage, coach, and (where necessary) exit IT Operations team members.
• Set team priorities, backlog sequencing, and coverage plans.
• Approve routine operational changes and vendor support escalations.
• Reassign work across the team in response to incidents, attrition, or shifting priorities.
• Represent IT Operations in meetings and decisions delegated by the Senior Director.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in IT operations, service delivery, or systems administration, with meaningful experience managing people.
• Experience owning service desk or IT support operations, including SLA management.
• Experience managing operational backlogs, incidents, and cross-functional escalations.
• Strong coaching and performance-management skills; comfortable delivering direct, candid feedback.
• Familiarity with identity/SaaS platforms (Okta, Google Workspace, Atlassian, Slack) sufficient to manage the people who administer them, without needing to be the deepest technical expert.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Both Mac / Windows experience

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience building or scaling an IT operations team from an unstructured, generalist model into a specialized one.
• ITIL-aligned incident/request/change management experience.
• Experience with endpoint management, office technology, or hardware lifecycle programs.
• Experience partnering with Security on identity and access governance.

Core Competencies

• People leadership and coaching
• Operational ownership and SLA management
• Prioritization under competing demands
• Structured problem solving
• Vendor and cost management
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Clear, candid communication
• Change and growth management

At Fetch, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure through:

• Equity: We offer full-time employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth.
• 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
• Benefits for humans and pets: We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets.
• Continuing Education: Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.
• Employee Resource Groups: Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership.
• Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, as well as our year-end week-long break.
• Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule.
• Calvin Care Cash: Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
• Flexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices, or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US. We’ll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home. (applicable for most roles)

Fetch is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, inclusion, and respect for all individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our commitment to inclusivity ensures that everyone is treated with dignity and has the opportunity to succeed based on their talent, skills, and potential.

Fetch also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities or those with sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by law. If you need assistance with the application process or require an accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@fetch.com.

Compensation

At Fetch, we offer competitive compensation packages including base, equity, and benefits to the exceptional folks we hire. The base salary range for this position is [$124,535 - $146,512]. Discover our benefits and how our employees live rewarded at https://fetch.com/careers .