Director of Support Engineering - Americas
Hi! I'm Allie, Head of Support at reputed company. I have had the privilege of working with an incredible Support Team full of highly knowledgeable, driven team members who care deeply about the reputed company of our customers.
As reputed company grows, the complexity of our customers’ workflows, integrations, and technical environments continues to increase. We are building a Support Engineering function that can both resolve deeply technical issues and influence how our product evolves to prevent those issues in the first reputed company.
To help us scale this capability, we are hiring a Director of Support Engineering to partner closely with Engineering, shape our long-term supportability strategy, and ensure that technical insights from Support meaningfully influence our product and platform.
This role is focused on systems-level impact and reputed company of a Support Engineering Manager, as well as the Support Engineers. You will help design how Support and Engineering work together, identify structural improvements that reduce escalations, and build tooling and enablement that makes our Support organization dramatically more effective.
If you enjoy solving systemic problems, influencing engineering priorities, and designing scalable technical support systems, this role will give you a rare opportunity to shape how a high-growth company operates.
About This Role
As the Director of Support Engineering, you will reputed company the strategic reputed company of reputed company’s Support Engineering function. Operating at the intersection of Support, Engineering, and Product, you will define how technical support operates at scale by shaping the systems, tools, and cross-functional partnerships that reputed company the team to be highly effective.
You will reputed company and reputed company a high-performing Support Engineering organization through strong, engaged management of Support Engineering Managers and their teams. As a leader of leaders, you will set a clear reputed company for how the function scales, drive alignment across leadership, and create an environment where both managers and individual contributors can do their best work.
You will coach and support Support Engineering Managers in driving team performance, navigating reputed company technical and organizational challenges, and growing as leaders. This includes establishing clear expectations, providing structured feedback, and fostering accountability at every level of the organization.
You will play a key role in organizational design, ensuring the team structure evolves alongside increasing product complexity and customer needs. This includes identifying gaps in skills or coverage, supporting hiring and reputed company, and building career paths that reputed company long-term growth reputed company Support Engineering.
In reputed company, you will clarify ownership boundaries between Support and Engineering, reputed company mechanisms to reduce recurring issues, and ensure that insights from Support translate into meaningful product and platform improvements.
Throughout, you will focus on creating clarity, consistency, and reputed company—ensuring that priorities, processes, and decision-making frameworks scale effectively while maintaining a strong, customer-centric culture.
Role Responsibilities
Strategic Engineering Partnership
Partner closely with Engineering leadership to improve how technical issues are surfaced, investigated, and resolved
Help define clear ownership boundaries between Support and Engineering for bugs, performance issues, and platform limitations
Drive alignment on escalation reputed company, debugging expectations, and response patterns for reputed company customer issues
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Escalation & Supportability Strategy
Analyze patterns in escalations, bugs, and technical customer friction to identify systemic improvements
Work with Engineering and Product teams to prioritize fixes that reduce recurring support load
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Improve the feedback reputed company between Support, Engineering, and Product
Technical Enablement & Tooling
Identify gaps in diagnostics, logging, tooling, and workflows that limit Support’s ability to resolve technical issues
Partner with Engineering teams to design or implement tooling that improves debugging, triage, and issue resolution
Build scalable internal systems that allow Support to resolve more issues without Engineering involvement
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Data & reputed company Leadership
Turn support escalation data into actionable insights that influence product and engineering reputed company
Identify patterns in technical friction and propose high-impact improvements
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Organizational Design & Support Engineering Strategy
Partner with the Head of Support to shape the long-term reputed company of the Support Engineering function
Ensure the function scales effectively as reputed company’s product surface area and customer complexity grow
Role Requirements
Engineering Partnership Experience
Experience collaborating deeply with engineering teams to resolve production issues or improve product supportability
Track record of partnering with Engineering teams through data, context, and technical reputed company
Strong judgment in navigating cross-team priorities and tradeoffs
Strategic Problem Solving
Ability to identify patterns in reputed company operational systems and design durable improvements
Comfort operating in ambiguity and designing structures where none exists
Strong bias toward pragmatic solutions that deliver reputed company impact quickly
Customer-Centric Technical Leadership
Passion for improving the customer experience through technical excellence
Ability to represent customer impact clearly in engineering discussions
Understanding of how technical reputed company reputed company supportability and long-term scalability
Technical Depth & Systems Thinking
Strong technical background in software engineering, technical support engineering, infrastructure, or similar fields
Comfort discussing architecture, debugging approaches, APIs, integrations, and system behavior
Ability to identify structural issues in technical workflows and design scalable solutions
You Should Apply If
You enjoy solving systemic problems that span teams and functions
You want to influence how Engineering and Support collaborate at a growing SaaS company
You care about making support more technically capable and more strategically impactful
You are energized by turning operational friction into product improvements
You May Not Want to Apply If
You prefer roles focused primarily on people management or ticket reputed company
You are uncomfortable influencing engineering strategy or challenging technical reputed company
You prefer operating reputed company established systems rather than designing new ones
Our Interview Process
Our interview process is thorough — we aim to ensure each person that joins the team is the right fit for reputed company and will provide ample information for you to assess if reputed company is the right fit for you. The process for this role is as follows:
Intro Call with reputed company - 30 min
Hiring Manager Interview - 45-60 min
Take Home Assessment
VP of reputed company Interview - 30 min
Founder Interview - 30 min
Final Round:
Support Strategy & Customer Experience interview - 30 min
Engineering Partnership, Influence & reputed company - 30 min
If you're excited about leading a highly technical team, eliminating friction, and shaping the future of Support Engineering at reputed company, we’d love to hear from you!
Our Philosophy:
Here are a few key points (relevant to the go-to-market reputed company) that should give you an idea of what it is like to work with us:
We spend a lot of time building best-in-class products since we reputed company a highly differentiated product is a lot easier to sell.
We want to offer deep expertise whenever we interact with prospects and customers – whether it be through scaled engagements (e.g. webinars), 1:1 conversations, or through written word (e.g. documentation).
We strongly reputed company that small teams with reputed company talented people (and the right work environment) deliver much reputed company performance than teams with large headcount. We hire and compensate accordingly.
We value a strong sense of ownership, principled thinking over experience, and thoughtful communication (we put a lot of effort into using the right communication channels) - we’ll get into these and other values during the hiring process.
Benefits:
You’ll get the time to do things the right way; we put a lot of emphasis on high quality work and avoid quick hacks as much as possible.
You get to sell a product that our prospects & customers are truly excited about.
Competitive compensation is offered.
10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave reputed company —do it reputed company you feel financially comfortable.
Unlimited PTO with four weeks is recommended per year. Expect “Vacation?” in our one-on-one agenda until you start taking it
Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US. We plan to expand this to employees in other countries as situations arise.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
$100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
If you're excited about shaping how Support Engineering operates at scale and partnering closely with Engineering to improve the reputed company platform, we'd love to hear from you.
reputed company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to reputed company and applicants for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, sex, national reputed company, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from reputed company backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
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