Side
Side

T4 Incident Manager

TLDR

Coordinate cross-team incident response to protect service continuity during high-severity gaming incidents.

About The Role

SIDE is looking for a Player Support Incident Manager to support a confidential gaming support programme.

This role is suited to someone who can coordinate quickly, communicate clearly, and bring structure to high-impact support situations, volume spikes, emerging issues, and player-impacting incidents.

You will work across Player Support, Operations, Team Leads, escalation teams, and stakeholder groups to support incident response, queue impact, communication alignment, and post-incident learning.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Monitor support activity for volume spikes, emerging issue patterns, or incident signals.
  • Coordinate the support-side response during active incidents or high-severity events.
  • Work with operational, technical, communication, and vendor teams to align actions.
  • Support player-facing messaging where required and aligned to approved communication guidance.
  • Help direct support resources during incident surges to protect service continuity.
  • Support queue prioritisation decisions where required.
  • Lead or support post-incident reviews, including timeline, impact, response effectiveness, and improvement actions.

Requirements

What You’ll Need

  • Experience in incident coordination, escalation management, service operations, player support, trust and safety, or technical support.
  • Ability to remain calm and structured during high-pressure situations.
  • Strong communication skills across operational and stakeholder groups.
  • Confidence reviewing queue trends, support impact, and emerging issue patterns.
  • Strong documentation and follow-up discipline.
  • Ability to prioritise work during player-impacting events.
  • Experience working with operational reporting, escalation paths, or service management processes is helpful.

Keys For Success

  • Detect and triage emerging support issues quickly.
  • Coordinate response activity across teams and stakeholders.
  • Protect service continuity during support surges.
  • Keep communication clear, timely, and aligned.
  • Turn incident learning into practical operational improvements.

Side is a prominent global video game development and services provider delivering technical and creative solutions to leading developers and studios worldwide. With a diverse range of services including game development, art production, audio production, and localization, we operate in over 40 studios across 15 countries, making us a key player in enhancing gaming experiences for players everywhere.

Founded
Founded 2009
Employees
500+ employees
Industry
computer games
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