About the Role
The Customer Support Manager leads daily operations for the Customer Support team, ensuring exceptional service and operational excellence for PureFacts Compensation Applications. This role focuses on coaching a high-performing team, managing operations, driving service quality, and collaborating with other teams to resolve customer issues efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Customer Support Analysts.
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and career development discussions.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and training of new team members.
- Foster a collaborative, accountable, and customer-focused culture.
- Balance workloads and ensure appropriate coverage across support shifts.
- Promote knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.
- Oversee daily support operations and ticket queues, directly handling escalations as needed.
- Monitor SLA performance, backlog health, response times, and customer satisfaction.
- Manage customer escalations and coordinate timely resolution with internal teams.
- Ensure consistent and proactive customer communication throughout the support lifecycle.
- Identify recurring issues and drive operational improvements.
- Monitor operational metrics and use data to improve team performance.
- Build trusted relationships with customers through professionalism, responsiveness, and transparency.
- Participate in customer operational reviews and escalation meetings as needed.
- Partner with Customer Success Managers to provide a seamless customer experience.
- Advocate for customer operational needs while maintaining alignment with company processes and priorities.
- Coordinate customer operational activities including production readiness, onboarding support, environment readiness, release validation, testing coordination, risk identification, and follow-up.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Professional Services, and Customer Success to ensure operational activities are completed successfully.
- Identify opportunities to improve support processes and customer experience.
- Contribute to knowledge base improvements and internal documentation.
- Support adoption of new tools, automation, and AI-enabled workflows.
- Recommend operational improvements based on customer feedback and support trends.
Requirements
- 5+ years supporting enterprise SaaS or enterprise software applications.
- 3+ years leading technical or customer support teams.
- Experience managing customer escalations and SLA-driven support environments.
- Strong communication, coaching, and organizational skills.
- Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, Professional Services, and Customer Success.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Skills
- Customer Support
- Team Leadership
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Performance Management
- Hiring
- Onboarding
- Training
- Operational Excellence
- SLA Management
- Escalation Management
- Customer Relationship Management
- Problem-Solving
- Analytical Skills
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Process Improvement
- Knowledge Management
- SQL troubleshooting
- Cloud-based application support
Experience Level
- 5+ years supporting enterprise SaaS or enterprise software applications
- 3+ years leading technical or customer support teams
