Head of Support

Plaid · Fintech · United States · Professional Services

Head of Support at Plaid, a fintech company, responsible for global support strategy and outcomes, leading a distributed team, and influencing product quality and roadmap through support insights. The role involves managing customer and consumer support, evolving the Customer Success Package business, and driving efficiency through operations and tooling.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the global support strategy and outcomes across SLAs, CSAT, revenue, and support quality.
  2. Unite our customer and consumer support teams into a single, high‑performing organization that is a true differentiator for Plaid.
  3. Lead, grow, and coach managers and ICs across regions and time zones; drive performance, calibration, and quality programs at scale.
  4. Manage critical incidents and executive‑level escalations in tight partnership with Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, GTM, and CS Ops, including post‑incident reviews and process fixes.
  5. Evolve support operations, tooling, and knowledge management to drive efficiency, deflection, and consistent, high‑quality experiences for customers and consumers.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years in technical/customer support
  • 5+ years leading managers (manager-of-managers)
  • 3+ years running global support operations
  • Strong operational rigor: metrics design, forecasting and capacity planning, process improvement, and support tooling strategy.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with GTM, Product, and Engineering to influence roadmaps and improve product quality through support insights.
  • Experience using AI and building content/deflection programs and quality frameworks.

Nice to have

  • Background in fintech, payments, or developer/API platforms operating at significant scale

What the JD emphasized

  • global support strategy
  • customer and consumer support
  • distributed teams
  • executive-level escalations
  • support operations, tooling, and knowledge management
  • AI and building content/deflection programs and quality frameworks