Team Lead, Support Engineering
As a Team Lead, Support Engineering at FloQast, you will lead a specialized team dedicated to delivering exceptional technical support for FloQast customers across the Accounting Workflow Automation Platform. Like all roles on the FloQast Support team, this is a hands-on leadership position. You will report to a Manager or Director of Support Engineering and run your team with a high degree of autonomy, balancing your time between hands-on work and people management, ensuring you remain a primary resource for your team while mentoring Technical Support Engineers to unblock customers effectively.
Responsibilities
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Lead a specialized team of Technical Support Engineers dedicated to unblocking customers through troubleshooting and technical administrative and configuration work across the FloQast Accounting Workflow Automation Platform.
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Own talent strategy for the team, including hiring, onboarding, training, 1:1 meetings, annual reviews, performance coaching, and career development.
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Oversee the team's work and collaborate asynchronously with US colleagues and leadership.
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Build and optimize processes such as routing work between teams, and drive improvements through AI, tooling, documentation, and data insights.
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Maintain strong proficiency in the FloQast platform, staying current with features and limitations, product updates, future roadmap, and best practices to effectively support both customers and the team.
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Remain hands-on with the team's work, including configuration requests, focusing your bandwidth where it can best help customers and the team.
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Leverage internal admin tools (Admin Portal) to execute CRUD operations in the database.
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Track and report on key Support metrics and queue health, including request volume and urgency, ensuring accurate prioritization, timely responses, and effective resolutions.
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Cultivate a high-performance culture rooted in our Support Values: Empathetic Helpers, Technical Problem Solvers, Trusted Product Experts, Generous Collaborators, and Thoughtful Communicators.
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Contribute to special projects and initiatives as assigned, leveraging expertise and a creative problem-solving skillset to help the department and company achieve its goals.
What You'll Bring
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5+ years of functional experience in Technical Support, IT operations, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
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2+ years of people management experience, including hiring and onboarding.
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Demonstrated success in managing individual contributors in technical roles.
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Demonstrated ability to lead a team independently.
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Strong written communication skills and experience working with colleagues globally across multiple time zones.
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Strong technical aptitude with the ability to quickly master complex products and rapidly evolving platform features.
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Proven ability to balance long-term strategic initiatives with day-to-day operational leadership.
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Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders on both operational initiatives and proactive improvements.
Nice to Haves
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Relevant experience with the FloQast platform or comparable B2B fintech products.
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Degree in Business, IT, Computer Science, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
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Professional experience or familiarity with principles in Accounting, Internal Audit, External Audit, Compliance, Finance, or related fields.
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Experience building or scaling a new team.
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Expertise and/or certifications in Zendesk administration.
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Familiarity with support automation strategies and AI support tools.
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Familiarity with tools like Jira, Grafana, and Highspot, and with AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, other LLMs, and specialized support AI tooling.
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Experience supporting employees across distributed offices and/or remote locations, domestically and/or internationally.
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Exposure to Sales/Customer Success methodologies or frameworks that enhance retention and expansion.
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