Technical Support Manager
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Job description
Team Leadership:
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of customer service engineers, ensuring the team is well-equipped to handle complex customer issues.
- Provide coaching, training, and performance feedback to team members, helping them grow and develop their technical and customer service skills.
- Set clear team goals, track performance metrics, and ensure high productivity standards are met.
Customer Support Management:
- Oversee day-to-day B2B customer support activities, including SaaS monitoring, operations, ensuring SLAs are met, SLA reporting, and customer support.
- Ensuring quick and accurate resolutions of technical issues and customer inquiries.
- Handle escalated customer complaints, ensuring issues are resolved promptly and to the customer's satisfaction.
- Collaborate with other departments, such as DevOps and Product Development, to resolve customer issues and improve service delivery.
Problem Resolution:
- Work closely with the engineering team to troubleshoot complex technical problems, providing guidance on solutions.
- Ensure the timely and effective resolution of customer issues by facilitating communication between technical teams and clients.
- Track and follow up on open cases to ensure all customer issues are resolved in a timely manner.
Process Improvement:
- Identify areas for improvement in the customer service process, and work with the engineering team to implement solutions.
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for customer support to ensure consistency and quality of service.
- Analyze customer feedback and performance metrics to continuously improve team efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Reporting and Analysis:
- Provide regular reports to senior management on team performance, customer satisfaction, and trends in technical support issues.
- Use data and analytics to identify opportunities for process optimization and improved customer experience.
Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work:
- Work closely with the sales team to ensure customer expectations are aligned and met.
- Liaise with DevOps, product development, and implementation teams to ensure issues are resolved quickly.
- Liaise with product development and engineering teams to communicate customer feedback and suggest product improvements or enhancements., Our technology stack is a modern one that includes:
- Petabyte-scale time series database technology housing high-volume financial data
- Django / PostgreSQL for low-volume transactional data
- Web-based SaaS services hosted in several AWS regions globally
- Kubernetes / Karpenter for service orchestration
- Apache Airflow for ETL scheduling
- Victoria DB for metrics collection, Grafana for visualization, Selenium, AWS-native tools
- Python 3 with proprietary libraries and automatic code generation for integration and product development
- AI-based bot assistants
- World-class data security engineering
The position will require a background check, signed NDA, signed contract, and signed GDPR processor passthrough agreement (since we act as a data processor under GDPR). Salaries will be commensurate with experience, education, skillset, and local norms.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience in a technical support/customer service role., * At least 5 years of experience in customer service, technical support, and SaaS B2B account management, with a proven track record of managing teams.
- Experience leading a team of engineers in a customer service or technical support environment.
- Experience with SaaS / Web-based database-oriented service architectures
- Familiarity with project management tools and methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.).
Skills:
- Strong leadership and team management abilities.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
- In-depth knowledge of B2B customer service best practices and processes.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize tasks effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Technical aptitude with an understanding of relevant tools and technologies., * Experience with a Cloud-hosted environment (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Advanced degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Experience in financial services such as trading, trade reporting, or trade surveillance
- Experience in product development in a developer role.
- Experience with a modern technology stack. See below.
Benefits & conditions
The position will require a background check, signed NDA, signed contract, and signed GDPR processor passthrough agreement (since we act as a data processor under GDPR). Salaries will be commensurate with experience, education, skillset, and local norms. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.