Steve Madden

Service Desk Team Lead

Steve Madden  •  $66k - $70k/yr  •  Long Island City, NY (Onsite)  •  17 days ago
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Job Description

General Summary

The Service Desk Team Lead is responsible for overseeing daily IT support operations, ensuring high-quality technical assistance across corporate, retail, and distribution environments. This role combines hands-on support, team leadership, and process improvement, ensuring that IT services align with the fast-paced retail business. This position supports the Wholesale business.

The responsibilities described below are considered essential functions of the role. This position is based in our LIC office and requires working on-site.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and manage a team of Service Desk Analysts supporting corporate offices, retail stores, and distribution centers
  • Monitor ticket queues and workloads to ensure SLA compliance and timely issue resolution
  • Conduct regular team meetings, coaching sessions, and performance reviews
  • Develop staff through training, knowledge sharing, and career development plans
  • Able to manage multiple projects and deadlines with support and resources as needed
  • Perform other duties and special projects as assigned

Specific Job Skills

Essential duties include

  • Oversee incident, request, and problem management processes using ServiceNow
  • Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality customer service and user satisfaction
  • Handle escalated technical issues and act as the point of contact for complex incidents
  • Maintain and improve knowledge base articles and support documentation
  • Provide technical assistance for corporate users, including laptops, Azure & On-Prem Active Directory, Office 365, VPN, and collaboration tools
  • Coordinate with infrastructure, networking, and information security teams to resolve cross-functional issues

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Minimum of 5+ years of IT support experience, with at least 1–2 years in a leadership or supervisory role
  • Strong experience supporting retail environments (POS systems, store operations)
  • Hands -on expertise with: Windows and Mac OS environments, Active Directory / Azure AD, Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint) and ITSM platforms (ServiceNow)
  • Excellent interpersonal, problem-solving, and organizational skills

FULL TIME POSITIONS The expected base salary for this position ranges from $66,000-$70,000. Ranges are based on various factors such as relevant skillset, training, years of experience related to the current job description, education, and our organizational structure. In addition to the base salary, Steve Madden offers a competitive benefits package that includes health and dental insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, 401K, paid holidays, a generous paid time-off policy, and career opportunities within a dynamic team.

Steve Madden

About Steve Madden

Steven Madden, Ltd. is globally recognized as a leading company in the fashion industry. What began as a modest $1100 investment in 1990 has developed into one of the most iconic brands in footwear. From a factory in Queens, NY, Steve Madden has revolutionized the shoe industry, merging years of experience with unique and creative designs. Inspired by rock and roll and his NY roots, Steve’s vision to provide on-trend women and men with an outlet to express their individuality is innovative, daring, and inspiring. Steve’s innate understanding of trends and unparalleled willpower have resulted in millions of customers worldwide and propelled his designs to the forefront of fashion.

In addition to marketing products under its own brands including Steve Madden®, Kurt Geiger London®, Dolce Vita®, Betsey Johnson®, Carvela®, Blondo® and ATM®, Steve Madden licenses footwear, handbags and other accessory categories for the Anne Klein® brand. In addition, Steve Madden designs and sources products under private label brand names for various retailers. Steve Madden’s wholesale distribution includes department stores, mass merchants, off-price retailers, shoe chains, online retailers, national chains, specialty retailers and independent stores. Steve Madden also directly operates brick-and-mortar retail stores and e-commerce websites. In addition, Steve Madden licenses certain of its brands to third parties for the marketing and sale of certain products in the apparel, accessory, and home categories.

With an emphasis on retail, wholesale, licensing and international business, there's a constant need for new ideas and versatility. Our environment is extremely fast paced and requires associates to maintain a balance of energy and professionalism. Steve Madden is about fashion-forward product and great people. Our employees are energized, intelligent and passionate about our business and committed to providing excellent customer service.

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Long Island City, NY
Year Founded
1990
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