Head of Support, Amer & Emea

Notion Notion · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Customer Experience

This role is for a Head of Support for AMER & EMEA at Notion, a company that offers a workspace with AI features. The role involves designing and scaling a technical and general support team, setting strategy, defining operating models, and driving execution in partnership with global CX, CS, and Sales leadership. The successful candidate will have extensive experience leading with data, scaling in new markets, and developing managers. Responsibilities include owning the vision and roadmap for support, leading a distributed organization, managing resources, defining targets, architecting upmarket strategies, representing the Voice of the Customer, and overseeing major incidents.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and own the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for Support in AMER and EMEA, and build the organizational structures and leadership bench to deliver against it
  2. Lead and develop a distributed support organization, ensuring clear accountability, effective communication, and strong engagement across locations
  3. Manage and optimize technical and non-technical resources in AMER and EMEA, ensuring consistent attainment of SLAs and KPIs across both technical and general support teams
  4. Define, set, and continuously refine quarterly and annual targets; partner with sales, success, product, and engineering leadership to drive sustained performance and continuous improvement in the region
  5. Architect and execute our upmarket strategy in AMER and EMEA, including developing and scaling Enterprise and Premium Support-specific strategies, processes, and policies

Skills

Required

  • 8–10 years of progressive leadership experience building, scaling, and leading high-performing technical support organizations, including leaders and ICs at various stages of their careers
  • 4+ years owning and leading Western markets within a global CX or Support organization
  • Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and scale robust cross-functional processes spanning go-to-market and technical teams
  • Proven track record of using data and market insights to shape strategy, influence senior stakeholders, and adapt operations to represent the unique variations in the American and European market
  • Ability to independently own, scope, and drive complex, multi-quarter initiatives while also delegating and empowering leaders and team members to deliver results
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to influence and align technical and non-technical audiences of all levels through clear narratives and data-driven recommendations
  • Deep user-centric mindset with a passion for designing experiences that materially improve customer quality of life
  • Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills, with experience interrogating data and systems to identify and resolve root causes
  • Experience designing customer and ticket journeys spanning from Tier 0 - AI generated self-serve support to highest point of escalation
  • Ability to analyze server and client application logs and identify the root cause of errors
  • Advanced data reporting and data analytics skills, with experience defining and monitoring the metrics that matter at regional and global levels
  • Ability to guide and coach teams to balance user expectations with policies, compliance boundaries, and business constraints

Nice to have

  • Experience launching and scaling a SaaS product in new markets within a global company
  • Strong knowledge of Linux, APIs, NoSQL, MySQL and similar open source technologies
  • Knowledge of Single Sign-on including OAuth, SAML, and SCIM
  • Experience writing or reviewing scripts using one

What the JD emphasized

  • technical support organizations
  • technical and general support teams
  • technical and non-technical resources
  • technical and non-technical audiences
  • technical support organizations
  • technical and non-technical audiences