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Akkodis ยท 19 hours ago

Senior Technical Support Manager

Akkodis is seeking a Senior Technical Customer Support Lead to oversee and scale global customer support for a rapidly growing SaaS and Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) platform. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for ensuring a high-quality, enterprise-level support experience while building the processes, tools, and team needed to support continued growth.

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Responsibilities

Own the global customer support function and overall support experience
Define and evolve support strategy, service levels, and escalation processes
Establish and maintain SLAs for customers and partners
Ensure support operations scale effectively with customer growth
Lead day-to-day support activities including ticket intake, prioritization, and resolution
Manage high-impact and complex customer escalations
Act as an executive escalation point when required
Improve and optimize support workflows, tools, and automation
Ensure consistent, high-quality support across all channels
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to accelerate issue resolution and identify root causes
Provide customer-impact insights to influence product roadmap priorities
Collaborate with Cloud, Hardware, and Deployment teams on platform and installation issues
Support Customer Success and Sales with renewals, expansions, and strategic accounts
Coordinate with partners to align support responsibilities and expectations
Define and track support KPIs including CSAT, response time, resolution time, and backlog health
Report on trends, risks, and customer-impacting issues
Lead post-incident reviews and root cause analysis
Translate support data into actionable improvements across product and operations
Hire, onboard, and develop a high-performing customer support team
Mentor senior support staff and emerging leaders
Define training programs, performance expectations, and career paths
Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and customer focus
Own internal and customer-facing support documentation
Maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and FAQs
Partner with Product and Training teams to enhance onboarding and self-service resources

Qualification

SaaS support experienceEscalation managementTeam buildingData-driven metricsTechnical troubleshootingCross-functional collaborationStartup experienceCloud-native familiarityZendesk proficiencyJira Service ManagementServiceNow experienceCommunicationCustomer focus

Required

7+ years of experience leading customer support for SaaS platforms
Experience supporting enterprise and mid-market customers
Proven ability to manage escalations in live production environments
Exceptional polish and communication to support customers and C-level stakeholders
Experience building and scaling support teams and processes
Strong cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Operations
Data-driven approach to support metrics and performance
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Experience working with globally distributed teams

Preferred

Experience supporting VSaaS, video, or data-intensive SaaS products
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and operational best practices
Hands-on technical troubleshooting experience (logs, integrations, platform behavior)
Experience supporting customer deployments, installs, or onboarding
Exposure to enterprise security, compliance, or regulated environments
Startup or high-growth company experience
Experience with tools such as Zendesk, Jira Service Management, or ServiceNow
Experience building tiered support models or on-call rotations
Background in Customer Success or Professional Services

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision
Life and AD&D
401k
STD and LTD
PTO
Holiday

Company

Akkodis provides digital engineering solutions for sustainable and innovative industries.

H1B Sponsorship

Akkodis has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Lane Greever
Chief Operating Officer (COO), Americas
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Kishore Raj
Vice President & Partner: Technology and Engineering Consulting and Services
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