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GitLab

Director, Customer Support Systems

GitLab

Director leading technology strategy for GitLab's Customer Support Systems, overseeing the Zendesk platform and improving customer engagement.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $152,800 - $259,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead the strategy, architecture, and execution for the technology ecosystem that supports GitLab's global Customer Success, Support, and Community functions.
  • Define and deliver a multi-year roadmap for post-sales systems that aligns with business goals and is measured through retention, expansion, and customer experience outcomes.
  • Take operational ownership of the global Zendesk environment, ensuring high availability, strong case routing, and effective integration with customer relationship management and internal engineering workflows.
  • Partner directly with post-sales leaders to improve support technology, moving from a reactive ticket management approach to a more proactive model focused on self-service, case deflection, and faster resolution.
  • Design scalable processes across the customer lifecycle, including onboarding, customer health, case management, renewals, and related post-sales workflows.
  • Drive the adoption of artificial intelligence and automation capabilities to improve efficiency, triage, routing, operational productivity, and risk identification.
  • Work with Data and Business Intelligence teams to improve data integrity and support a reliable source of truth for health scores, product usage reporting, and retention insights.
  • Mentor and grow a distributed team of business systems professionals, building a culture of ownership, collaboration, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Significant experience in Enterprise Applications or Business Systems, including strong leadership experience in a high-growth business-to-business software environment.
  • Strong knowledge of post-sales business processes, including customer success, support, renewals, and the broader customer lifecycle, with a clear understanding of how systems influence retention and churn outcomes.
  • Proven experience owning or leading major customer-facing platforms such as Zendesk, Service Cloud, or Gainsight, including platform configuration, optimization, and governance.
  • Experience designing integrations between customer success tools and core business platforms such as Salesforce, finance systems, and data platforms.
  • Ability to work effectively across technical and business teams, influence senior stakeholders, and translate strategic goals into practical system improvements.
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data models, health scoring frameworks, dashboards, and operational reporting used to guide customer decisions.
  • Demonstrated success leading and developing globally distributed teams of analysts, administrators, developers, or architects in an all-remote and asynchronous environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave
  • Home Office Support

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Hard Skills & Tools
Enterprise ApplicationsBusiness SystemsZendeskService CloudGainsightSalesforcedata modelshealth scoring frameworksoperational reportingautomation capabilities
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationmentoringinfluencinganalytical skillscommunicationcontinuous improvementownershipproblem-solvingstrategic thinking
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Information TechnologyBachelor's degree in Engineering