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Zip is the world's leading intake-to-procure solution: one place for employees to initiate a purchase or vendor request
Technical Support Manager
Location
United States
Posted
10 days ago
Salary
$110K - $140K / year
Bachelor Degree7 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Lead and develop the US Technical Support team, establishing clear performance expectations, coaching plans, and career pathways.
• Share operational oversight of the Philippines team, partnering with regional leadership to ensure seamless 24/5 (or follow-the-sun) support coverage.
• Drive staffing models, workforce planning, and scheduling to meet SLA targets and response-time goals.
• Foster a culture of ownership, urgency, technical excellence, and customer advocacy.
• Act as a senior escalation leader for complex technical issues, ensuring rapid triage and resolution.
• Guide teams through deep-dive investigations, reproduction steps, and ownership determination before routing to Engineering.
• Partner closely with Engineering to strengthen feedback loops and reduce time-to-resolution.
• Build and scale global escalation pathways from Customer → Product → Engineering.
• Standardize triage workflows, debugging practices, ticket handoffs, and prioritization frameworks.
• Identify systemic friction points and implement process improvements that enhance predictability and SLA performance.
• Leverage metrics and dashboards to manage team performance and continuously improve response quality and speed.
• Serve as the voice of the customer, surfacing trends and influencing product roadmap decisions.
• Partner with Sales, CSM, Onboarding, and TAM teams to support enterprise customers and high-impact launches.
• Step in directly with customers when urgent or highly technical situations require leadership engagement.
• Utilize observability tools, logs, and analytics platforms (e.g., DataDog) to identify patterns and operational risks.
• Drive knowledge management improvements to reduce escalations and increase Tier 1 resolution rates.
• Champion automation and AI-driven support capabilities to scale the organization efficiently.
Job Requirements
- 7+ years in technical, customer-facing roles with at least 3 years in a people management capacity within Technical Support or a similar function.
- Proven experience leading distributed or global teams.
- Strong track record partnering with Engineering and Product to resolve complex technical issues.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale customers in SLA-driven environments.
- Demonstrated success building scalable processes and improving operational performance.
Benefits
- Full health, vision & dental coverage
- Catered lunches & dinners for SF employees
- Commuter benefit
- Team building events & happy hours
- Flexible PTO
- Apple equipment + home office budget
- 401k plan