Director of Customer Support
- Team Leadership & Development Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Customer Support organization.
- Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, and operational excellence.
- Build and maintain onboarding, training, and certification programs to elevate technical proficiency and consistency.
- Define clear roles, escalation paths, performance expectations, and career progression within Customer Support.
- Equip front-line managers to run predictable day-to-day support operations while developing future leaders.
- Customer Support Operations & Service Delivery Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end support operations across all reactive channels (ticketing, email, chat, phone).
- Standardize ticket intake, triage, prioritization, escalation, and resolution workflows.
- Define and enforce SLAs, service level targets, and incident response procedures.
- Monitor ticket volume, backlog health, aging, and response trends to ensure consistent service delivery.
- Assess current-state processes, design future-state workflows, and implement operational improvements that reduce friction, eliminate redundancy, and support sustainable growth.
- Drive operational rigor that balances speed, quality, and cost-to-serve.
- Automation, Deflection & Issue Prevention Responsibilities
- Implement automation and AI-driven workflows to reduce repetitive and manual support work.
- Develop and execute a knowledge base and self-service strategy that increases ticket deflection.
- Analyze support data to identify recurring issues and partner with Product to eliminate root causes.
- Shift the organization toward proactive issue prevention (reducing inbound demand), not proactive relationship management.
- Continuously evaluate tools, workflows, and documentation to improve efficiency at scale.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product to surface trends, defects, and usability issues impacting support volume and customer experience.
- Collaborate with Sales to improve pre-sale expectation setting and post-sale support readiness.
- Serve as the internal voice of support, advocating for product and process improvements that reduce customer friction.
- Ensure clear escalation and communication paths for high-impact customer issues.
- Performance Measurement & Reporting
- Establish and own Customer Support KPIs, including:
- SLA attainment
- First response and resolution times
- Backlog health and ticket aging
- Escalation rates
- CSAT and service quality indicators
- Ticket deflection and automation effectiveness
- Provide regular reporting to leadership on support performance, capacity, risks, and trends.
- Pull, analyze, and interpret call data to identify trends, diagnose performance gaps, and drive staffing, coverage, and workflow decisions.
- Use data to drive staffing models, prioritization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- 2-5 years of experience leading Customer Support or Technical Support teams in SaaS or technology environments.
- Proven success running high-volume support operations with strong operational discipline.
- Deep experience with ticketing platforms, automation tools, and support analytics.
- Deep Proficiency in modern cloud-based phone systems (Zoom Phone or Similar); including call routing, tier or queue configuration, and reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to improve efficiency, predictability, and customer experience simultaneously.
- Strong operational and workflow leadership with a track record of applying prior best practices to improve efficiency, scalability, and consistency.
- Strong leadership, communication, and change management skills.
- Data-driven mindset with excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience in MedTech or HealthTech a plus.
- Competitive Salary
- 100% Company-Paid Premiums for Employee's Medical Health (HDHP 4500), Vision, and Dental Plans + $4,400 company sponsored contribution into an HSA
- Short-term and Long-term Disability
- Life Insurance
- 401k Matching
- Work from Anywhere within the US
- Flexible PTO
- 100% Paid Parental Leave
- Post-Parental Leave Program - $5k stipend to assist with expenses, 4 week 100% paid "Ease-Back" return to work transition period
- Charitable donation matching
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