
Director, Critical Accounts Support
Wiz
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $204,000 - $280,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Act as a hands-on technical lead for assigned critical accounts; investigate, debug, and resolve complex technical support cases and escalations.
- Analyze accounts suffering from 'ticket fatigue' to identify root causes (product education, configuration drift, or bugs) and implement systematic fixes.
- Work with customer teams to refine their internal workflows, enabling them to resolve routine requests internally before escalating to Wiz.
- Serve as the primary technical owner during critical incidents, driving them to resolution with urgency.
- Own the resolution of critical issues by establishing strong relationships with internal technical teams, including the CTO, Engineering, and Product departments, and driving the path to success.
- Recruit, hire, and mentor a team of specialized Support Engineers to expand the capacity and reach of the Critical Accounts program.
- Regularly present program health, success metrics, and account status updates to the Wiz executive team.
- Partner with customer executives (CISOs, VPs of Engineering) to provide technical assurance and demonstrate progress on chronic issues.
- Aggregate data from high-volume accounts to provide clear, actionable feedback to Product and Engineering teams, influencing the roadmap to reduce support burden.
- Act as a key member of the wider Customer Success Extended Leadership team, contributing positively to our mission and transformation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience, with strong proficiency in Technical Support, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- 7+ years of people management experience, with a history of hiring and developing technical teams.
- Proven ability to step into 'at-risk' or high-volume accounts and drive technical stability and customer satisfaction.
- Experience balancing deep technical work with high-level program management and reporting.
- Advanced knowledge of major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their associated security models.
- Experience reading and debugging code (Python, Go, Java, Shell) and using command-line tools.
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes, containerization, and modern infrastructure-as-code environments.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Home Office Setup reimbursement
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Monthly Connectivity reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (with employer match)
- Flexible paid time off + 11 paid holidays
- Paid leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical and bereavement leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
Technical SupportDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPythonGoJavaShellKubernetesinfrastructure-as-codecloud security models
Soft Skills
people managementtechnical leadershiprelationship buildingprogram managementcommunicationmentoringproblem-solvingdata analysiscustomer satisfactionpresentation skills