Customer Support Team Lead

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Customer Support Team Lead leading engineers who resolve technical storage and large-scale compute issues. Optimizing support operations, escalations, KPIs, and customer-driven product improvements at Vast Data.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a regional team of Customer Success Engineers handling highly technical storage and large-scale compute issues
  • Oversee day-to-day customer support operations, including ticket management, response times, and escalations using published runbooks
  • Develop and optimize support workflows, processes, and procedures
  • Monitor support metrics and KPIs, identify improvement areas, and take corrective action
  • Support customers with configuration and daily issues
  • Identify high-visibility customer issues and act as a customer escalation liaison
  • Engage Customer Success and development engineers as needed
  • Manage work schedules and workload distribution, including holiday and weekend coverage
  • Review support metrics and KPIs to assess performance and identify improvements
  • Advise on process enhancements to optimize workflows and improve the customer support experience
  • Prepare reports and dashboards on support performance, trends, and customer feedback
  • Communicate support insights, challenges, and recommendations to senior management and leadership
  • Collaborate across departments to share customer insights and contribute to product and service enhancements
  • Collaborate with Product Development Engineers and Sales Engineering teams on product improvements using market competition knowledge and customer use cases

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Electronic Engineering, or related field
  • 10 years of experience in the job offered or related role
  • 10 years of experience with client protocol debugging, including NFS, SMB, and S3
  • 10 years of escalation management experience working with software developers
  • 5 years of experience leading continuous process improvement initiatives to enhance system reliability, scalability, and performance
  • 5 years of experience preparing and presenting technical status reports, KPI dashboards, and risk assessments to senior leadership and external stakeholders
  • 4 years of technical team leadership experience, including guiding and mentoring team members' technical development
  • 2 years of experience providing technical direction, task prioritization, and performance oversight for team members
  • 2 years of experience conducting resource planning, workload allocation, and capacity forecasting to support project execution
  • Domestic travel required 20% of the time to customer sites

Benefits:

  • Telecommuting role performed anywhere in the U.S.
  • Domestic travel to customer sites required 20% of the time