Associate Manager, Technical Support

The Manager, Tier II Technical Support leads a global team of Tier II Technical Support Specialists responsible for advanced customer escalations, product-level troubleshooting, and operational excellence. This role is accountable for people leadership, daily operations, performance management, and cross-functional coordination with Engineering, Product, and Support Operations.
The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, excels in data-driven decision-making, and brings structure, clarity, and consistency to a highly technical team.
 

• Lead and develop a global team through coaching, 1:1s, performance reviews, and feedback cycles.
• Foster a culture of accountability, clarity, continuous learning, and operational discipline.
• Manage scheduling, coverage balance, workflow adherence, and staffing needs.

• Oversee case assignment, queue health, backlog aging, and SLA performance.
• Monitor and report key metrics, including SLA, CSAT, backlog aging, and throughput.
• Identify performance risks and implement corrective action plans.
• Ensure documentation completeness, workflow adherence, and data hygiene.

• Serve as Manager on Duty (MOD) as part of rotational coverage.
• Coordinate communication during production instabilities and cross-functional escalations.
• Partner with Engineering and Incident Management to drive timely updates and ensure alignment.

• Partner with Senior Technical Support Specialists to ensure technical oversight and consistency.
• Work closely with Engineering and Product teams to surface defect trends, product gaps, and stability issues.
• Collaborate with SOP and Operations partners to drive workflow improvements, tooling enhancements, and automation initiatives.

Enablement & Onboarding

• Support onboarding for new Tier II Specialists through structured training plans.
• Reinforce enablement programs and monitor training completion and effectiveness.

• 5+ years in technical support or SaaS operations, including 2+ years of people leadership.
• Experience managing distributed teams.
• Strong operational management and capacity planning skills.
• Familiarity with SLA management, backlog oversight, and performance reporting.
• Experience with Salesforce, Jira, or similar CRM/issue tracking tools.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills.

• Experience with automation, AI-Ops, or workflow optimization.
• Background supporting multi-product SaaS ecosystems.
• Experience driving process improvements or operational standardization.
• Ability to lead teams through change and tool adoption.

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