Head of Support

Plaid Plaid · Fintech · United States · All Departments

Plaid is seeking a Head of Support to own their global support strategy and outcomes, leading a distributed team across customer and consumer support. This role involves uniting support motions, evolving the Customer Success Package business, and influencing product quality and roadmap through support insights. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in technical/customer support leadership within B2B SaaS or API companies, preferably in fintech.

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
  • Proven success owning support outcomes at scale
  • Deep experience building and leading distributed teams
  • 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
  • leading managers (manager-of-managers)
  • global support operations
  • fintech, payments, or developer/API platforms
  • incident management
  • executive-level escalations
  • distributed teams
  • operational rigor
  • metrics design
  • forecasting and capacity planning
  • process improvement
  • support tooling strategy
  • partner with GTM, Product, and Engineering
  • influence roadmaps
  • improve product quality through support insights
  • AI and building content/deflection programs and quality frameworks