Manager, Personalized Support

Twilio Twilio · Enterprise · Colombia · Remote · Customer Support

Manager for a Personalized Support team at Twilio, focusing on technical support for strategic customers, proactive guidance, and improving support operations. The role involves leading and coaching a team of engineers, driving procedural changes, hiring, and fostering collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of Personalized Support Engineers (PSEs) who support our strategic customers.
  2. As the Personalized Support Manager, you will be their coach and leader; bringing out the best in each of your team members with keen interest in their overall well being.
  3. You are constantly looking for ways to improve support operations and areas that our PSEs can improve to provide our customers with the highest level of support possible.
  4. You will also be working alongside our Personalized Support Managers who manage Technical Account Managers (TAMs).
  5. You will hire and train new employees to supplement existing resources as needed while all the time raising the bar on the standard of excellence.

Skills

Required

  • Experience coaching Technical Support Engineers in providing best-in-class customized proactive and reactive support to customers.
  • Exceptional emotional intelligence, interpersonal communication and professional writing skills.
  • Demonstrated history of driving customer issue resolutions including escalation management, and coordination with internal operational teams.
  • Ability to lead a team while effectively developing and achieving the desired performance outcomes (performance, teamwork, collaboration, KPI reporting/analysis, frameworks, daily management tasks, training & enablement strategies, etc.)
  • Ability to prioritize multiple competing initiatives simultaneously including business as usual tasks, projects, on-call responsibilities and other operational requirements.
  • Diplomacy in uncertain situations with an analytical and process driven solution approach.

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of networking protocols, standards, troubleshooting and cloud computing.
  • Experience working with Salesforce, JIRA, Confluence, Airtable, Zendesk and other project tools.

What the JD emphasized

  • 6+ years of experience as part of a support or operations team in a software or SaaS company.
  • 4+ years experience leading a technical support team in a software or SaaS company.