Head of Technical Support
Job Description
Own enterprise technical support end-to-end for a growing developer-tools team in San Francisco.
Responsibilities
- Define and run tiered SLAs, priority levels, and escalation paths for enterprise customers
- Own critical escalations from first response through resolution, including communication with customer engineering leaders and executives
- Partner with Sales, Solutions, and Customer Success on onboarding, renewals, and at-risk accounts
- Handle technical questions for security reviews and complex setups including SSO, custom domains, and CI/CD integrations
- Deploy and tune AI agents to deflect and resolve common questions, and measure their real resolution rate
- Build internal tools, scripts, and workflows to reduce handle time and eliminate repeat work
- Convert recurring tickets into docs, product fixes, or automations
- Run bug triage: gather clear reproductions, determine severity, and route to the right team
- Bring ticket trends into roadmap discussions so the most painful issues get addressed
- Run incident communication with customers alongside Engineering
- Set up and report weekly on key support metrics: first response, time to resolution, CSAT, backlog, escalation rate, and AI resolution rate
- Forecast volume and headcount as the customer base grows
- Hire, coach, and level support engineers; build career paths and establish a QA process
- Set coverage and on-call to keep enterprise SLAs on track
Requirements
- 4+ years in technical support, support engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role, including 1+ years managing a team
- Experience leading support at a high-growth developer-tools or developer-focused company
- Strong fluency in docs and developer tooling: Git and GitHub workflows, CI/CD, Markdown/MDX, static sites, APIs and OpenAPI specs, DNS and hosting
- Hands-on debugging ability: reproduce issues, read logs/config, and explain root cause clearly to engineers or customers
- Deployed AI in a support org (agents, deflection, or AI-assisted workflows) with measurable impact
- Operational rigor: define SLAs, build dashboards, report metrics to leadership, and forecast volume/headcount
- Calm, clear communication during enterprise escalations and incidents
- Ability to work from the San Francisco office 5 days a week
Technologies
- Git, GitHub
- CI/CD
- Markdown/MDX
- APIs, OpenAPI
- DNS
- SSO, SAML
- JavaScript, TypeScript
Team / Location / Type
- Team: growing team of support engineers (open headcount)
- Location: San Francisco, in office 5 days a week
- Type: Full-time, player-coach
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 20 days paid time off every year
- 401k
- $420/month wellness stipend
- 100% coverage for Health, dental, vision
- Free Ubers to and from work
- Free lunch and dinners
- Annual team offsite (previously Alaska, Hawaii)
Success Milestones
- 30 days: Handle tickets and escalations personally, meet the team and key enterprise customers, establish baseline support metrics
- 90 days: Enterprise SLAs and escalation paths defined and operational, weekly metrics review running, shared plan for AI deflection and team growth
- 6 months: Enterprise SLAs met consistently, AI resolves a measured and growing share of inbound volume, bug triage cadence running with Engineering
- 12 months: Support scales with the customer base, clear levels and career paths in place, support data informs the roadmap
Nice to Have
- Used Mintlify or another docs platform (as a customer or on the team)
- Built a support function from zero at an early-stage startup
- Can write code (JavaScript/TypeScript or similar) for internal tools and scripts
- Experience with enterprise requirements including SSO/SAML, security reviews, and custom domains
- Familiarity with how LLM-based products work (retrieval, prompting, evals) to support AI features
Compensation
- Base salary: USD $185,000 - $225,000 per year
- Equity: plus equity (final pay depends on experience and skills)
Location
San Francisco, CA (onsite)