Overview

At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves. We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us. We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

Location: Remote, CA, United States

The Opportunity

Technology

Our technology team works fast and smart. With San Francisco as our home, we take bringing new tech to market seriously, developing the latest in mobile technologies, scalable architecture, and the coolest in-store client experience. We love what we do and we have fun doing it. The Technology group is comprised of motivated self-starters and true team players that are absolutely integral to the growth of Sephora and our future success.

Your role at Sephora

The IT Support Services team plays a pivotal Tier 2 role in the retail technology support model, positioned between Level 1 Help Desk and Level 3 Engineering. Their responsibilities extend beyond basic incident resolution to encompass escalation management, and operational readiness, ensuring seamless retail operations. This team is essential to maintaining operational stability, accelerating incident resolution, and enhancing the overall reliability of retail systems.

The IT Support Services Analyst at Sephora must be a proactive and solutions-oriented individual with 4+ years of operational experience supporting retail environments. This role demands a strong understanding of IT best practices to effectively manage and resolve daily operational incidents and tasks related to retail and corporate applications and hardware, preventing major incidents. Adherence to SLAs and strong communication skills are essential in this fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Tier 2 Incident Management (INC/SCTASK):
  - Provides advanced troubleshooting and resolution for retail incidents.
  - Serves as the escalation point for issues unresolved by Level 1 support.
  - Proactive queue monitoring & triage, SLA maintenance, backlog reduction.
• Retail Escalation Handling (RVIP):
  - Manages urgent escalations from Retail Field Leaders around the clock.
  - Routes escalations to appropriate technical or corporate teams.
  - Ensures follow-through to resolution or provides warm hand-off to the correct team.
• Proactive Issue Prevention:
  - Conducts root cause analysis and facilitates cross-functional resolution.
• Production Readiness Validation (CTASK):
  - Validates critical retail operations post-production changes to prevent disruptions.
• Preemptive Troubleshooting (Teams Channels - NUC down / Network Alerts):
  - Engaged by monitoring systems or L3 teams to address POS and network issues before they impact business.
• Major Incident Response (Retail - Major Incidents):
  - Acts as the operational extension of engineering during critical incidents.
  - Supports real-time testing, validation, and communication with retail systems and store users as needed.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in level 2+ operational support roles within retail environments, with hands-on experience supporting Point of Sale (POS) systems, hardware, and network infrastructure
• Retail-specific applications: Point of Sale / Mobile Point of Sale (application and peripherals), Business Applications (Workforce Management, Task Management, Inventory Management, Back Office Management, Reporting Applications, Customer Service applications)
• Hardware troubleshooting (Back Office Computers, Point of Sale registers and peripherals, mobile devices, mobile peripherals, digital signage)
• Store Opening / Closing Procedures and Power Outages and Recovery
• VM failover coordination, hardware/software deployment validation (network, BOPC, FPOS/MPOS), Off-hours troubleshooting, NUC/network issue prevention, & equipment testing.
• Experience maintaining operations level commitments, including, but not limited to, monitoring and alert management, process flow review and execution, Problem Management, Incident Management, diagnose and triage system events.
• Experience driving an incident to resolution, including participating in Technical Bridges and engaging all needed resources in a timely manner while communicating with all levels of management
• Experience investigating and creating root cause analysis documentation on Major Incidents to assist Problem Management Process
• Experience utilizing problem management to track incidents and document progress amongst all teams involved within ITSM tools
• Possesses advanced skills in diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues within a retail environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; effectively conveys technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences,
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong understanding of IT best practices and SLAs
• Ability to execute and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with incident resolution, escalation management, and operational readiness
• Proactive and solutions-oriented mindset
• Demonstrated professionalism in both presentation and communication, including phone and written interactions with stakeholders

The base salary section is below, we will place under compensation section.

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $99,540.00- $110,600.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant’s qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. Sephora offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees, which includes comprehensive health, dental and vision plans; a superior 401(k) plan, various paid time off programs; employee discount/perks; life insurance; disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; and an employee referral bonus program. This job will be posted for a minimum of 5 days.

What you’ll enjoy at Sephora

• The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented leaders and teams – people you can be proud to work with.
• The learning. We invest in training and developing our teams, and you will continue evolving and building your skills through personalized career plans.
• The culture. As a leading beauty retailer within the LVMH family, our reach is broad, and our impact is global. It is in our DNA to innovate and, at Sephora, all 40,000 passionate team members across 35 markets and 3,000+ stores, are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

You can unleash your creativity, because we’ve got disruptive spirit. You can learn and evolve, because we empower you to be your best. You can be yourself, because you are what sets us apart. This, is the future of beauty. Reimagine your future, at Sephora.

Sephora is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military/veteran status, or disability status. Sephora is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Sephora will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.