Support Account Manager - Escalations & Account Support

Fivetran Fivetran · Data AI · Oakland, CA · Customer Support Department

This role is a Support Account Manager focused on escalations and account support for Fivetran customers. The primary responsibility is to manage the day-to-day support experience, drive case momentum, coordinate internal stakeholders, and ensure timely and accurate communication. The role also involves managing structured escalation workflows for high-risk situations, assessing business impact, and aligning resources. Flexibility for weekend/on-call rotations is required.

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. Track and manage follow-up SLAs / status update cadence, ensuring customers receive timely updates, next steps, and realistic ETAs.
  3. 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).
  4. Assist in prioritizing and triaging escalated cases based on severity, impact, and urgency; ensure the right resources are engaged.
  5. Serve as a customer-facing coordinator for critical or complex cases, ensuring communication is timely and consistent.

Skills

Required

  • 2 - 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.
  • Comfortable using AI-powered tools responsibly

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-fa

What the JD emphasized

  • weekend/on-call rotation
  • Premium customers may require support outside standard business hours
  • follow-up SLAs / status update cadence
  • prioritizing and triaging escalated cases
  • customer-facing coordinator
  • weekend rotation
  • Flexibility to support occasional after-hours needs
  • weekend/on-call rotation