Responsibilities
- Lead a 40+ person global Support and Engineering team operating 24/7, with full responsibility for hiring, performance management, and team culture.
- Lead the continued build-out of an AI-augmented Support model, progressing on the efficiency gains and customer experience improvements that the team has already realized.
- Help set the strategic vision for Support and CX as part of the Senior Leadership Team, and translate it into an operating plan the team can execute.
- Coach and develop the bench of Support leads into senior leaders.
- Help shape and differentiate VIP’s enterprise Support offering in partnership with Product, Sales, and the rest of CX.
- Continue building best-in-class reporting on Support outcomes, customer experience, and team performance, bringing rigor to the data foundations behind it.
- Partner closely with the rest of CX, Product, Sales, and Marketing on customer outcomes, feedback loops, and customer-centric decision-making.
- Engage credibly with senior internal and external stakeholders, including customer executives.
- Model customer centricity directly: on customer calls, on-site, and in escalations.
Experience
- 10+ years of leadership experience in Support or customer-facing organizations. Direct experience leading a Support organization is required.
- 5+ years supporting SaaS or PaaS products for large enterprise customers.
- Experience leading a mature Support organization of 50+ team members.
- Experience aligning Support to broader goals around retention. A commercial mindset: comfortable thinking and talking about ARR, retention, and the financial side of Support.
- Demonstrated fluency with AI-augmented Support models: how AI changes agent workflows, deflection and escalation patterns, improving the customer experience and the way Support teams serve their customers.
- Demonstrated ability to engage with executive stakeholders, both internal and external.
- Proven track record of performance management within a team, working closely with individual team members, leads, and HR partners.