Clutch

Director of Support Engineering

Clutch

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Origin:  • 🇧🇷 Brazil

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Build, mentor, and inspire a high-performing distributed team of Support Engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and AI-driven innovation
  • Lead AI-first transformations of support workflows and decision-making processes, embedding intelligent systems into daily operations to enhance speed, accuracy, and quality
  • Own and optimize core support processes including ticket management, incident response and escalation procedures
  • Establish and monitor performance metrics across the team ensuring high performance and efficient operations
  • Ensure compliance with service level agreements and maintain high levels of customer retention
  • Identify training and development needs for the technical support team and provide resources for professional growth
  • Design and implement enterprise-grade support processes and service delivery models
  • Act as a senior escalation leader during critical incidents, providing clear, calm, and strategic guidance to internal teams and customer executives
  • Foster a positive and collaborative work culture within the technical support team, promoting teamwork and employee engagement
  • Champion cross-functional alignment with Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Professional Services to drive shared goals and frictionless customer experiences
  • Drive strategic initiatives with senior leadership to evolve the vision, strategy, and operating model of the Technical Support function in an AI-first world
  • 90-day goals: learn products, understand tools and workflows, review KPIs, build stakeholder relationships, identify quick wins, meet direct reports and cross-functional leaders
  • 180-day goals: establish roles and expectations, introduce quality control, build robust onboarding, improve reporting and analytics, begin long-term support strategies
  • 270-day goals: build a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, recognize top performers, and launch a roadmap for scaling support operations (automation, AI chatbots, knowledge management)

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in technical support for enterprise software or SaaS platforms, with a strong emphasis on driving innovation through automation and AI
  • 3+ years in leadership roles, with a proven ability to build and scale high-impact support organizations in fast-paced, AI-forward environments
  • Proven ability to lead and develop organizations of 20+ employees including management of managers
  • Demonstrated success building globally distributed, high-performing teams, with a focus on asynchronous collaboration, operational resilience, and intelligent tooling
  • Exceptional communication skills, capable of distilling complex technical topics for both executive-level and technical audiences
  • Deep expertise in enterprise SaaS platforms, cloud architectures, and complex B2B software solutions
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and execute enterprise-level strategies with measurable business impact
  • Authorization to work in the country where the job is located; Clutch cannot provide sponsorship or assist with obtaining work permits
  • Position offered on a contractor basis