Support Account Manager - Escalations & Account Support

Fivetran Fivetran · Data AI · India · Remote · Customer Support Department

Fivetran is hiring a Support Account Manager to own the day-to-day support experience for a portfolio of customers. This role involves driving case momentum, coordinating internal stakeholders, and ensuring clear, timely, and accurate communication. The position also requires leading structured escalation workflows for high-risk situations by assessing business impact, aligning resources, and maintaining accountability. The role may involve weekend/on-call rotations and requires flexibility for support outside standard business hours. The ideal candidate will have strong judgment, customer empathy, cross-functional coordination skills, and the ability to remain organized under pressure. Experience with AI-enabled tools is mentioned as a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the support experience for a portfolio of accounts by coordinating ticket progress, follow-ups, and customer communications.
  2. Assist in prioritizing and triaging escalated cases based on severity, impact, and urgency; ensure the right resources are engaged.
  3. Serve as a customer-facing coordinator for critical or complex cases, ensuring communication is timely and consistent.
  4. Track and manage follow-up SLAs / status update cadence, ensuring customers receive timely updates, next steps, and realistic ETAs.
  5. Partner with Support Engineers to convert technical investigation into clear customer-facing updates (status, what’s been tried, what’s next, when we’ll update next).

Skills

Required

  • 4 years of experience in customer support operations, technical account coordination, customer success, or support program management (or equivalent).
  • Strong written and verbal communication: ability to deliver crisp updates to customers and internal stakeholders, including executives when needed.
  • Strong organizational skills and follow-through; able to manage multiple accounts/issues simultaneously.
  • Comfort working cross-functionally and navigating ambiguity to drive next steps.
  • Technical aptitude and ability to learn complex systems quickly (SaaS, cloud, data integration preferred).
  • Solid judgment: knows when to escalate, how to set expectations, and how to balance urgency with accuracy.
  • Flexibility to support occasional after-hours needs, including participation in a weekend/on-call rotation for Premium customers and high-severity incidents.
  • Calm under pressure, customer-empathetic, and team-oriented.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Zendesk, SupportLogic, Jira, Looker, or similar tooling.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), data warehouses, ELT/ETL, APIs, or SaaS support environments.
  • Experience supporting enterprise customers, executive-facing comms, or participating in QBRs.
  • Interest in support analytics (SLA compliance, escalation rate, CSAT) and operational improvement work

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-enabled tools and automation
  • Comfortable using AI-powered tools responsibly