Manager, Technical Support

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Jakarta, Indonesia · Customer Experience

Manager for a Global Technical Support team at Braze, a customer engagement platform company. The role focuses on leading a local team of support agents, ensuring they meet KPIs, providing feedback, mapping career development, evaluating performance, and managing hiring and onboarding. The manager will also act as an escalation point for complex customer issues and advocate for team standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. leading a local team of support agents committed to fostering strong post-sale technical relationships with our customers.
  2. ensuring your team meets their KPIs, conducting regular one-on-one meetings, providing feedback, and mapping out career development plans.
  3. responsible for evaluating your team's performance and actively involved in setting and reviewing their OKRs.
  4. address underperformance through constructive feedback and proper documentation.
  5. actively manage other key people processes, including hiring and onboarding.

Skills

Required

  • 2-4 years of management experience in overseeing a technical support organization, preferably within a SaaS B2B environment.
  • Proven track record in leadership and talent development, including the recruitment, motivation, and mentoring of high-performing teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and cultivate a culture of continuous learning and adaptation.
  • Expertise in addressing complex and time-sensitive technical support challenges effectively.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Capability to foster a growth-oriented and supportive team culture that encourages development and collaboration.
  • Experience in working within decentralized organizations, facilitating collaboration with partners and team members across diverse regions and time zones.
  • Skilled in managing critical customer-facing escalations and maintaining clear communication with internal and external stakeholders until resolution is achieved.
  • Strong attention to detail for documentation and process standardization across global teams.
  • Ability to synthesize complex concepts and articulate them clearly to varied audiences.
  • In-depth knowledge of case management processes, including issue resolution, escalation management, and knowledge-centered support.
  • Proficiency with case management tools, such as Salesforce, Zendesk, or other similar CRM ticketing systems.
  • Comprehensive understanding of key support KPIs, including Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Customer Effort Score (CES), and time to resolution.

Nice to have

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • APIs
  • SQL
  • Postman
  • Snowflake
  • Kibana

What the JD emphasized

  • technical support organization
  • recruitment, motivation, and mentoring of high-performing teams
  • addressing complex and time-sensitive technical support challenges effectively
  • managing critical customer-facing escalations
  • key support KPIs