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Director of Global Support Operations

283k – 424kUnited StatesRemote10+ YOE
Summary

Lead global support operations transformation at Snowflake, shifting from manual processes to AI-augmented systems while driving outcome-based metrics and cross-functional strategy. Requires 10+ years in technical support/operations with proven transformation and people leadership experience.

About the role

Support & Workforce Strategy

  • Support Business Partnership: Serve as a strategic partner to the Head of Global Support, her regional leaders, and the broader Support leadership team to align operational goals with organizational strategy, ensuring consistent service delivery and collaborative problem-solving across all territories.
  • Business Planning: Assist in developing an annual business plan that incorporates support best practices to meet market and company growth requirements.
  • Support Offerings & Tiering: Design and maintain a tiered support service model that aligns service levels with customer needs, ensuring clear value propositions across all support tiers while balancing cost-to-serve.
  • Global Support Enablement: Establish a scalable framework for continuous learning, tool proficiency, and knowledge management, ensuring support engineers globally have the training, documentation, and resources to deliver consistent, high-quality assistance.
  • AI-Augmented Staffing: Transition global support teams from manual allocation to a skill-based, AI-augmented staffing model that optimizes resource deployment across technical domains.
  • Capacity & Sourcing: Develop hiring and retention strategies for optimal staffing, partnering with recruiting to define profiles that meet Snowflake's evolving support needs.

Operations Leadership

  • Success Metrics: Define and track global and geo-level success metrics, shifting focus from traditional volume to outcome-based measures like customer consumption uplift.
  • Data-Driven Improvement: Analyze operations to provide cost-effective suggestions for improvement, utilizing data to address global inefficiencies proactively.
  • Support Intelligence: Institutionalize learnings from customer experiences and support data to drive continuous improvement in global support operations.

Strategic Leadership & Team Development

  • Empowering Teams: Empower managers to take on more responsibility, giving them the space to grow their teams without micro-management.
  • Inspiring Culture: Inspire and motivate staff members during challenging times or tight deadlines, maintaining high morale and energy across the global organization.
  • Decision Accountability: Ensure decisions on difficult matters are made thoughtfully and acted upon effectively, holding peers and team members accountable.

What We're Looking For

  • 10+ years in Support/Operations: Technical support background with proven experience in support excellence and managing global operations.
  • Transformation Fluency: Track record of leading operational transformations and replacing manual workflows with AI/automated systems.
  • Strategy Influence: Ability to participate and influence organizational-level strategy while collaborating across cross-functional boundaries.
  • People Leadership: Experience in developing hiring strategies and motivating high-performing teams through change and growth.
Skills
Support OperationsGlobal Operations ManagementAI-Augmented StaffingWorkforce PlanningSuccess Metrics DefinitionData-Driven ImprovementCross-Functional CollaborationTeam LeadershipHiring StrategyOperational Transformation