Job Description
Daily Activities:
- Monitor AI-assisted Service Desk performance, including deflection, resolution, escalation, fallback, and containment rates.
- Review AI interactions, failed intents, fallback cases, and escalated conversations to identify quality issues and recurring patterns.
- Tag, classify, and analyze AI failures and user support scenarios.
- Identify gaps in knowledge articles, intents, automation coverage, and AI responses.
- Analyze Service Desk tickets, trends, user feedback, and operational data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Prepare dashboards, reports, and insights on AI and Service Desk performance using tools such as Excel and Power BI.
- Provide structured recommendations and feedback to Knowledge Management, Automation, AI, and Service Desk teams.
- Track improvement actions and assess whether implemented changes are delivering the expected outcomes.
- Support incident, request, and user inquiry management as part of normal Service Desk operations.
- Participate in Service Desk queue management and ensure appropriate handling and escalation of support cases.
- Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to understand recurring user pain points and service experience gaps.
- Contribute to continual service improvement initiatives and the optimization of AI-assisted support processes.
Business Value:
- The Service Desk AI Quality Analyst helps maximize the business value generated from AI-enabled IT support by ensuring that AI capabilities are continuously measured, improved, and aligned with user needs. The role delivers value by:
- Improving AI effectiveness: Identifying and addressing failed intents, inaccurate responses, and ineffective automation.
- Increasing automation value: Identifying opportunities to increase AI deflection and reduce unnecessary human intervention
- Improving user experience: Using user feedback, ticket data, and interaction analysis to identify and resolve recurring experience gaps.
- Reducing support effort: Helping reduce repetitive Service Desk workload through improved knowledge, automation, and AI capabilities.
- Improving service quality: Ensuring AI-assisted support delivers consistent and reliable outcomes.
- Supporting data-driven decisions: Providing measurable insights into AI performance, Service Desk trends, and improvement opportunities.
- Driving continual improvement: Connecting operational Service Desk insights with AI, automation, and Knowledge Management improvement activities.
- Protecting business value from AI investment: Ensuring AI capabilities continue to deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction.
The Role:
AI Quality & Performance Management
- Monitor and report on key AI performance indicators, including deflection, resolution, escalation, fallback, and containment rates.
- Review AI interactions and identify quality issues, failed intents, and inappropriate or incomplete responses.
- Categorize and analyze AI failure scenarios to identify root causes and recurring patterns.
- Identify opportunities to improve AI intents, conversational flows, knowledge sources, and automation.
- Validate the effectiveness of AI improvements and monitor performance following changes.
- Maintain accurate records of AI quality issues, trends, and improvement opportunities.
Data Analysis & Reporting
- Analyze Service Desk ticket data, AI interaction data, and user feedback to identify trends and service gaps.
- Develop regular AI quality and Service Desk performance reports.
- Create and maintain dashboards and analytical views using Excel, Power BI, or equivalent tools.
- Translate data into clear insights, recommendations, and actionable improvement initiatives.
- Track key performance indicators and identify areas requiring further investigation.
- Knowledge & Automation Improvement
- Identify knowledge gaps that contribute to AI failures or poor user outcomes.
- Recommend improvements to knowledge articles, categorization, intents, and automation coverage.
- Provide structured feedback to Knowledge Management, Automation, AI, and Service Desk teams.
- Support testing and validation of new or enhanced AI and automation capabilities.
- Help ensure knowledge and automation solutions reflect actual user needs and Service Desk demand patterns.
Service Desk Operations
- Handle incidents, service requests, and user support inquiries as required.
- Participate in Service Desk queue management and operational activities.
- Apply standard ITSM processes when handling incidents and requests.
- Escalate issues appropriately and maintain accurate ticket information.
- Use operational experience to identify recurring issues and opportunities for AI or process improvement.
Continual Service Improvement
- Identify recurring Service Desk and AI-related issues and recommend improvement actions.
- Participate in service improvement initiatives and working groups.
- Monitor the outcomes of improvement initiatives and provide evidence of their effectiveness.
- Promote a culture of data-driven, user-focused continual improvement.
- Share insights and trends with relevant stakeholders to support informed decision-making.
The Requirements
Education & Experience
- At least 2 years’ experience working in an IT Service Desk, IT operations, or ITSM environment.
- Practical understanding of incident and service request management.
- Experience with ServiceNow or a comparable ITSM platform is preferred.
- Experience analyzing operational data, ticket trends, or service performance is preferred.
- Experience working with AI-assisted support, chatbots, automation, or conversational AI is advantageous.
Technical & Analytical Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including data analysis and reporting.
- Experience with Power BI or similar business intelligence and visualization tools.
- Ability to interpret data, identify patterns, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
- Basic understanding of conversational AI concepts, including intents, fallback scenarios, escalation, automation, and knowledge-driven responses.
- Understanding of ITSM principles and Service Desk workflows.
Service & Business Skills
- Strong customer and user service orientation.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to identify recurring patterns and anomalies.
- Ability to understand both technical and business perspectives.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to present analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across Service Desk, AI, Automation, Knowledge Management, and other technology teams.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in an operational environment.
WTW is an Equal Opportunity Employer