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Customer Support Engineer Manager

San Francisco, CAHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

Leads and scales a technical L1 support engineering team for enterprise customers, managing SLAs, triaging complex voice AI issues with LLMs/STT/TTS, and bridging feedback to engineering. Requires 5+ years technical support experience, 2+ years managing teams, and fluency in APIs, Python/JS, and voice tech.

About the role

What You’ll Do

30 Day

  • Master the Stack: Deep-dive into the Vapi stack, mastering nuances of sub-500ms latency, tool-calling, and the Vapi CLI.
  • Audit Enterprise Operations: Audit the current ticket triage process specifically for enterprise accounts utilizing complex SIP integrations, WebRTC, and custom LLM configurations.
  • Partner with Engineering: Build a relationship with the L2 Support team (sitting in Engineering) to ensure a seamless escalation path for our highest-value customers.

60 Day

  • Enterprise SLA Excellence: Formalize and strictly enforce Severity SLAs for paying enterprise customers, ensuring P1 blockers receive a 4-hour first touch and P2 issues receive an 8-hour first touch.
  • Tier Enforcement: Work with Agent Strategists and Agent Engineers to ensure L1 CSEs are not becoming "ad-hoc FDEs" for lower-tier enterprise accounts, and correctly identify when support requests should be flagged as upsell opportunities.
  • Automation: Collaborate with Product to refine automated testing and Eval suites, turning frequent enterprise friction points into platform features.

90 Day

  • Team Growth: Own the technical health of the enterprise base and scale the L1 team to handle the increasing volume of complex enterprise deployments.
  • Knowledge Leadership: Oversee the publication of "God-tier" technical guides and debugging snippets tailored to complex enterprise integrations.
  • Strategic Feedback: Act as the primary bridge between enterprise stakeholders and core engineering, surfacing technical requirements to continuously improve the platform.

Who You Are

  • Technically Lethal Leader: 5+ years in high-intensity technical support or solutions roles, with at least 2 years of experience managing technical teams. You are fluent in REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems.
  • Enterprise Experienced: You have a proven track record of managing support operations for enterprise accounts and strictly adhering to commercial SLAs.
  • AI-Native: You understand prompt engineering, structured outputs, and how to optimize them for voice latency.
  • Code-Capable: You can still jump into Python or JavaScript to help your team debug an enterprise customer’s middleware or build a reproduction agent.
  • Voice Fluent: Experience with SIP, WebRTC, or Twilio is highly preferred—you understand the "plumbing" of a phone call.
  • Relentlessly Autonomous: You don't wait for a playbook; you write the one that will scale Vapi to its next 1,000 enterprise customers.

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Unlimited PTO, with a culture that encourages ~20 days off annually
  • Catered meals, commuter support, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget
Skills
REST APIswebhooksevent-driven systemsprompt engineeringstructured outputsPythonJavaScriptSIPWebRTCTwilioLLMSTTTTSVapi CLI