Lead Service Desk Specialist

Imagine if you had the skills, knowledge, and teammates to both understand the root of the world’s most pressing problems and build the technologies and companies best positioned to solve them. RA Capital has done exactly that for more than two decades, backing bold ideas in medicines to further human health and now expanding into Planetary Health to improve how efficiently we utilize the world’s precious resources. RA Capital is among the leading providers of capital and services to the most promising innovators in the world.

We invest flexibly—seed to IPO and beyond, anywhere in the world—with $10 B+ under management and a culture that prizes curiosity, rigor, and collaborative debate. We are investors who not only fund companies but get elbow deep in building them. From helping them recruit talent to helping them recruit patients for their studies to helping match them to strategic partners and even going to Washington to win reforms, RA Capital’s large team has people with nearly every relevant expertise one might need to turn an idea into a cure that actually helps people.

If you live for first-principles problem-solving with great colleagues, thrive on complexity, and want to do meaningful work that ripples across industries and ecosystems, you’ll feel at home at RA Capital. Here, questions are welcomed, ideas are tested, and victories are shared. Even our lawyers are creative and engaging.

And don’t get us started on our compliance team’s wicked sense of humor; nothing about what we do is boring. Are you ready to bring your creativity, discipline and collaborative spirit to help us invent the future? Join us and you’ll collaborate daily with investors, founders, physicians, biologists, engineers, economists, and reform advocates who think in systems and act with urgency.

Join us to invent a happier, healthier, more productive future - and have fun doing it. As a Lead IT Service Desk Specialist, you will serve as a member of the IT Operations team, providing frontline technical support while helping lead and mentor the Service Desk function. In this role, you will balance hands-on technical troubleshooting with day-to-day oversight of Service Desk operations, ensuring high-quality support and an excellent employee experience across the organization.

The ideal candidate is a collaborative technical lead with strong customer-service instincts, excellent communication skills, and a passion for mentoring others and improving IT support processes in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

Provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 technical support by troubleshooting and resolving issues submitted through the IT ticketing system Manage and resolve service desk tickets in a timely manner, coordinating with employees to identify root causes and implement solutions Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues while maintaining ownership through resolution Lead day-to-day Service Desk operations, helping prioritize workloads and ensure timely response and resolution of support requests Mentor, train, and support Service Desk team members, promoting technical growth and strong customer-service practices Monitor ticket queues, team performance, and support metrics to help maintain service levels and improve operational efficiency Collaborate with other members of the IT team to diagnose and resolve advanced technical issues Assist with documenting support procedures, knowledge base articles, and operational best practices Identify opportunities for process improvement and help implement enhancements to the end-user support experience Escalate issues as needed while maintaining clear communication with employees and stakeholders What You Will Get to Do Lead and support daily Service Desk operations in a dynamic IT environment Provide hands-on technical support while mentoring and developing junior Service Desk team members Work with and support technologies including Okta, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Netskope, Cisco Meraki,