Tech Lead, Customer Support
Quick Summary
Significant hands-on experience supporting complex B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, identity, infrastructure, or similarly technical products. Strong technical troubleshooting capabilities,
This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for guiding a team of five support engineers while owning the resolution of complex customer issues. You will combine deep technical troubleshooting with day-to-day team leadership, coaching, prioritization, and operational management. As the technical lead for high-priority escalations, you will work closely with Product and Engineering to investigate issues and drive them through resolution. You will also help strengthen the team's expertise across SaaS, identity, APIs, integrations, and security environments. As automation and agentic AI become increasingly important to support operations, you will help introduce new capabilities and turn customer insights into better support systems. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving challenging technical problems while developing people and improving customer experiences.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of five support engineers, including performance management, career development, hiring, and ongoing team growth.
- Own daily support operations, including case prioritization, workload allocation, team coverage, escalation paths, quality standards, and customer communications.
- Serve as the technical lead for complex and high-priority customer escalations, investigating issues alongside engineers, developing clear technical assessments, and coordinating resolution with Product and Engineering.
- Build deep expertise across the platform and the SaaS, identity, API, integration, and security environments used by customers.
- Strengthen the team's technical capabilities through case reviews, troubleshooting guidance, documentation, knowledge sharing, and hands-on coaching.
- Represent Support during critical customer situations, providing clear updates, managing expectations, and maintaining ownership through final resolution.
- Identify recurring customer issues and collaborate with Product and Engineering to drive product improvements, better diagnostics, and enhancements to the overall support experience.
- Partner with teams developing agentic AI capabilities to introduce new support workflows, train engineers, and provide feedback based on real customer cases.
- Monitor support quality and operational performance, including resolution times, SLA performance, customer satisfaction, and automation impact.
- Use support data and customer feedback to identify opportunities to improve team efficiency, service quality, and operational processes.
- Balance hands-on technical involvement with people leadership, ensuring the team maintains strong customer focus and technical standards.
Requirements
~1 min read- Significant hands-on experience supporting complex B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, identity, infrastructure, or similarly technical products.
- Strong technical troubleshooting capabilities, including investigating ambiguous issues, working across APIs and integrations, interpreting logs and product behavior, and collaborating effectively with Engineering teams.
- Experience leading a small technical team, either through direct people management or as a technical lead with meaningful coaching and operational responsibilities.
- Strong judgment when managing customer escalations, with the ability to balance technical investigation, urgency, prioritization, and clear communication.
- Demonstrated ability to develop engineers, provide constructive feedback, and improve team processes while remaining closely connected to technical work.
- Experience using support metrics to identify operational issues, improve service quality, and increase team efficiency.
- Practical interest in automation and AI-driven support workflows, with an understanding of where human expertise and judgment remain essential.
- Experience with SaaS security, identity management, OAuth, SAML, or enterprise application integrations is preferred.
- Experience supporting security incidents or other time-sensitive customer issues is a plus.
- Previous experience implementing automation, AI, self-service, or similar capabilities within a support organization is advantageous.
- Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high standard of customer service and technical quality.
What We Offer
~2 min readLocation & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 29, 2026
- First seen
- September 29, 2026
- Last seen
- September 29, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 68%
- Scored at
- September 29, 2026
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