Senior Manager, Technical Support Engineering

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Senior Manager leading global technical support operations for Pantheon’s cloud WebOps platform. Improving escalations, reliability, automation, and customer outcomes across distributed teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead Technical Support Engineering operations across multiple regions and locations
  • Design and maintain a follow-the-sun model with regional ownership, handoffs, on-call coverage, and escalation paths
  • Establish operating cadences, coverage models, priorities, procedures, runbooks, playbooks, review mechanisms, and reporting
  • Diagnose system-level operational problems and design durable solutions
  • Use service data, ticket trends, customer feedback, incident reviews, and team input to prioritize improvements
  • Establish standards for escalation quality, customer communication, Engineering follow-up, incident participation, and documentation
  • Use automation and AI to reduce repetitive work, improve signal detection, and increase capacity for complex issues
  • Lead high-impact customer escalations and incidents, ensuring clear ownership, timely updates, and technically credible guidance
  • Partner with Customer Success, Account teams, Product, Professional Services, and Engineering on complex customer situations
  • Translate team performance, customer risk, and recurring technical themes into recommendations for senior leadership
  • Build and sustain a high-performing team; set expectations for managers, team leads, and engineers
  • Coach leaders, develop technical depth, and own performance management, career development, succession planning, and retention
  • Establish baselines and drive continuous improvement against service, coverage, customer, reliability, and team-performance measures

Requirements:

  • Significant experience leading technical support, escalation support, site reliability, platform operations, or a related function in a SaaS, cloud, or web infrastructure environment
  • Experience leading globally distributed or follow-the-sun teams
  • Demonstrated record of improving support operations through better ownership, process design, metrics, and cross-functional execution
  • Experience managing high-performing technical teams and developing managers or team leads
  • Strong incident and escalation management experience, including customer communication during high-impact events
  • Experience partnering with Engineering and Product to investigate defects, improve reliability, and address systemic issues
  • Strong analytical judgment and ability to turn operational data into clear priorities and decisions
  • Experience building or improving service metrics, dashboards, operating reviews, and reporting for senior stakeholders
  • Strong written and verbal communication, including explaining complex technical issues to non-technical audiences
  • Working knowledge of observability, logs, traces, incident management, ticketing systems, and technical knowledge management
  • Familiarity with WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js, or comparable web application and cloud infrastructure environments
  • Experience using automation or AI to improve support workflows, knowledge access, triage, or operational visibility
  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical, business, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Visa sponsorship is not available at this time

Benefits:

  • Industry competitive compensation and equity plan
  • Flexible time off, sick days, and 13 paid holidays
  • Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision
  • Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
  • In-office workspace (San Francisco & Chicago)
  • Monthly allowance for wellness, reading and access to LinkedIn Learning for continued development
  • Events and activities both team-based and company wide that inspire, educate and cultivate
  • Performance bonus
  • Equity