Team Manager, Technical Support

Smartsheet Smartsheet · Seattle · India · Technical Support

This role is a Team Manager for Technical Support at Smartsheet, a SaaS company. The primary responsibilities include managing and mentoring a global team of technical support professionals, overseeing day-to-day operations, ensuring KPIs and SLAs are met, and fostering a high-performance culture. The role requires experience in people management within a SaaS environment and focuses on customer support and operational efficiency.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage & lead a team of globally distributed technical support professionals to provide enterprise-level, post-sales technical support to Smartsheet customers. Teams will be comprised of members with varying levels of technical expertise and tenure
  2. Set clear objectives, coach & provide feedback, evaluate progress, and instill a high performance culture with focus on teamwork, customer excellence, and ownership for resolving customer issues
  3. Own and drive performance and customer outcomes through the delivery of SLAs and KPIs
  4. Leverage the strengths of your team to maintain case volume, reduce backlog, and deliver improvements to Support experiences
  5. Analyze and interpret KPI metrics, customer feedback, to identify trends and make recommendations for improving efficiencies

Skills

Required

  • People management
  • Mentoring
  • Coaching
  • Performance evaluation
  • Technical support
  • Customer service
  • SaaS environment experience
  • Critical thinking
  • Problem-solving
  • Leadership
  • Communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Ability to learn quickly

Nice to have

  • Experience leading global teams
  • Frontline management experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of prior people management or equivalent experience in mentoring, managing, or providing feedback to individual contributors
  • 3+ years experience working in a technical support or customer service environment, with a preference for prior experience operating in a fast-paced, high-volume technical SaaS environment with a high degree of critical thinking and problem solving