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Director Support

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You will lead Support Engineering across EMEA, managing managers and senior contributors in a distributed, multi-country environment. You will own people strategy, service delivery, customer support outcomes, escalations, reporting, and regional operational planning. You will improve cross-region handoffs, guide adoption of AI-assisted support tools, represent customer needs, and help shape global support strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the full people agenda for the EMEA Support Engineering team, including performance, career development, succession planning, retention, internal mobility, and culture.
  • Manage managers and senior contributors across EMEA time zones.
  • Partner on employment considerations across jurisdictions, including Works Council engagement where applicable.
  • Own service-level target performance, customer satisfaction, ticket quality, resolution outcomes, escalation workflows, and KPI reporting.
  • Improve shift handoffs and Request for Help coordination across global Support Engineering hubs.
  • Oversee adoption and improvement of AI tools for support delivery, including tooling, data insights, capacity planning, and staffing management.
  • Represent EMEA customer needs by identifying patterns, escalating systemic issues, influencing the product roadmap, and supporting customer or partner conversations.
  • Shape global Support Engineering strategy, including geographic coverage, quality standards, knowledge exchange, operating model, planning, headcount modeling, and regional roadmap.

Requirements

  • Progressive experience in technical support engineering or a related customer-facing technical discipline.
  • Experience managing managers, senior contributors, and distributed teams through a manager-of-managers structure.
  • Experience managing multi-country teams in EMEA.
  • Experience owning service delivery, including service-level targets, escalations, and operational performance in a globally distributed environment.
  • Experience with or interest in AI-assisted support delivery.
  • Written and verbal communication skills, including executive communication and synchronous and asynchronous collaboration.
  • Proficiency with Zendesk, Salesforce, Decagon, or equivalent support platforms.
  • Knowledge of DevSecOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, or GitLab.

Benefits

  • Health, financial, and well-being benefits
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity compensation
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave

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