Enterprise Support Team Lead
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What the team is looking for.
As the Enterprise Support Team Lead, you'll oversee our Enterprise Support operations and lead a global team supporting our most strategic accounts. This is a critical leadership position that requires both deep technical expertise and exceptional people management skills. You'll be responsible for maintaining world-class responsiveness, driving operational excellence, and ensuring our enterprise customers receive the highest level of support.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop your team: Hire, mentor, and grow talented support specialists; drive higher performance and create a culture of excellence.
- Own enterprise support operations end-to-end: Manage day-to-day metrics, KPIs, and ensure smooth operations across global shifts and time zones.
- Provide hands-on technical support: Maintain your own technical expertise by actively supporting enterprise customers and complex issues alongside your team.
- Drive operational improvements: Identify gaps and bottlenecks, create and implement new workflows, KPIs, and targets; operationalize improvements across the team.
- Bridge critical functions: Serve as a primary conduit between Support, Engineering, and Revenue teams; communicate customer needs and product gaps to leadership.
- Ensure global coverage: Manage scheduling and coverage to support enterprise customers across all time zones with consistent quality and responsiveness.
- Build and maintain documentation: Ensure your team has clear, accurate, and up-to-date resources to support customers effectively.
Requirements
- Deep technical expertise: Seasoned subject matter expert with strong understanding of customer support, the AI landscape, APIs, different AI such as TTS and LLMs, and telephony systems (e.g. Twilio, SIP, WebSockets).
- Proven leadership experience: Track record of building and leading high-performing teams, developing people, and driving results.
- Technical execution capability: Able to perform the work yourself and mentor others; comfortable reading and troubleshooting code as well as more ambiguous troubleshooting such as AI.
- Operational excellence: Experience managing metrics, KPIs, and smooth operations in fast-moving environments; strong administrative and organizational skills.
- Problem-solving mindset: Proactively identify gaps and drive solutions rather than just raising issues; work across stakeholders to action outcomes.
- Experience in B2B or enterprise support: Familiarity with the demands of supporting strategic accounts and managing complex customer relationships.
Who You Are
- A committed leader: Prepared to address critical issues and ensure coverage outside standard work hours; possess the flexibility and drive this global role demands.
- Passionate about people and performance: Genuinely interested in developing your team, pushing them to do more, and creating an environment where they can excel.
- Not afraid to speak up: Take up space, voice concerns when you see problems, and stand up for your team, even when communicating with senior leadership.
- Analytically sharp: Approach problems with first-principles thinking and data-driven decision-making.
- A strong communicator: Translate technical complexity into clear, actionable insights for customers, your team, and leadership.
- Self-directed and driven: Don't wait for instructions; hold yourself and your team to a high standard.
- Energized by impact: Thrive in a startup environment where things move fast and you can have real influence on the company's direction.
- customer support
- AI landscape
- APIs
- TTS
- LLMs
- telephony systems
- Twilio
- SIP
- WebSockets
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