# Founding Support Lead

**Company:** [Decagon](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/decagon)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Support Engineering
**Salary:** $144k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** technical support, api debugging, Integrations, Webhooks, Zendesk, customer escalations, runbooks, slas, on-call support, enterprise saas
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Founding Support Lead who starts by personally resolving complex technical customer issues for Decagon's conversational AI platform, then builds scalable 24/7 support processes, runbooks, SLAs, and a team to deliver enterprise-grade support. Requires 5+ years technical customer-facing experience, strong systems thinking, and a builder mindset for high-stakes environments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build the Support function: define the coverage model, tooling, SLAs, runbooks, and processes that a world-class enterprise support team runs on, and own how it scales as Decagon grows.
- Stand up 24/7 support and incident escalation: build the always-on support and on-call coverage our customers can depend on at any hour, so every account gets a fast, expert response.
- Own resolution end to end: triage, resolve, and follow up on customer issues across the full customer base with speed and care, holding quality high as volume grows.
- Go deep technically: personally resolve the hardest agent-configuration and integration issues, and become the person who understands Decagon's failure modes better than anyone.
- Turn firsthand knowledge into leverage: capture what you learn into runbooks, macros, and playbooks that make every future hire faster and more consistent.
- Hire and grow the team: as volume justifies it, recruit, onboard, and lead the support team, growing from an individual contributor into the leader of the function.
- Make support a growth lever: become the trusted first point of contact so our forward-deployed teams can focus on deployment and expansion rather than triage, and partner with them on a clean escalation path.
- Feed the front lines back into the product: surface recurring issues and customer pain to Product and Engineering so the platform gets more reliable and more self-serve over time.

## Requirements
- 5+ years in a technical, customer-facing role such as technical support, technical account management, solutions, implementation, or support operations, ideally in B2B SaaS serving enterprise customers.
- Genuinely technical and integrations-savvy. You can debug API and authentication issues (rotated credentials, tokens, webhooks), reason about how systems connect (for example ticketing platforms like Zendesk), and tell a Decagon problem apart from an upstream one. A systems-thinking mindset is essential.
- A builder's instinct. You want to create the processes, tooling, and team, not just work a queue someone else designed. You are energized by ambiguity and a blank page.
- A track record of ownership in high-stakes, fast-moving environments, staying calm and decisive during incidents and escalations with demanding enterprise customers.
- Excellent communication and judgment. You can explain a technical issue clearly to a frustrated stakeholder, know when to escalate, and follow through until the issue is fully resolved.
- Comfort being hands-on first and building the team second, with the ambition to grow into the leader of the function.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience standing up or scaling a support or technical support function from an early stage, including tooling selection, staffing, and 24/7 or on-call coverage models.
- Working knowledge of customer support processes, systems, and best practices, and familiarity with agentic AI or conversational AI deployments in large organizations.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise integrations (APIs, webhooks, ERPs, CRMs, ticketing and payment systems) and the ways they break in production.
- Experience in a high-growth startup environment, and the willingness to design a follow-the-sun or BPO-supported model as coverage needs grow.
- A Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math field, or equivalent hands-on technical experience.

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