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Head of Customer Support

175k – 225kSan Jose, CAOnsite10+ YOE
Summary

Lead customer support and onboarding operations for a fintech compliance platform. Build tiered support, SLAs, onboarding playbooks, and scale a team while partnering closely with founders and engineering.

About the role

What you will own

1. Customer onboarding

  • Own time to first verification as a primary company metric
  • Design and run the end to end onboarding journey from contract signed to live in production
  • Build integration enablement motions for technical and non technical customers
  • Create clean handoff rituals from sales to onboarding to support
  • Ship onboarding playbooks that scale across SMB, mid market, and enterprise

2. Customer support

  • Build a tiered support model with crisp SLAs, escalation paths, and on call rotations
  • Stand up a knowledge base and self serve layer that deflects routine questions
  • Use AI aggressively to reduce ticket volume and first response time
  • Partner with engineering on customer impacting incidents and on call discipline

3. Support operations and escalation management

  • Own tier-1 through tier-3 support triage and resolution across the customer base
  • Build and refine escalation playbooks, incident response protocols, and postmortem processes
  • Define and instrument SLA performance metrics across all customer tiers
  • Create a structured voice of customer loop back to product and engineering

4. Operations org and culture

  • Build and scale a team across onboarding, support, and technical support
  • Set the bar for operational quality, clarity, and velocity
  • Create strong rituals around reviews, escalations, retros, and feedback loops
  • Partner tightly with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Compliance

5. Founder level partnership

  • Act as a thought partner to the founders on customer strategy and scale
  • Join key customer calls, enterprise escalations, and critical support incidents
  • Influence support tooling, staffing models, and service tier definitions
  • Represent operations credibly with customers, partners, and investors

Who you are

You likely have:

  • 10 plus years in customer operations, customer support, or technical operations leadership
  • Experience scaling ops at a Series A to Series C B2B SaaS or fintech company
  • Track record building onboarding or support functions from scratch
  • Experience with technical products, API integrations, and enterprise customers
  • Comfort operating with ambiguity, speed, and high ownership
  • A strong bias toward action over decks

Bonus:

  • Compliance, KYB, KYC, fraud, payments, or regtech background
  • Experience across global customer bases including LATAM, Africa, SEA, and MENA
  • You have deployed AI tooling in your ops org and have strong opinions on where it works
  • Experience building or running a 24/7 or follow-the-sun support operation
  • Familiarity with support tooling such as Zendesk, Intercom, or Linear

You are:

  • Able to go from messy signal to playbook to shipped process
  • Comfortable saying no and explaining why
  • Respected by engineers because you understand systems
  • Energized by hard problems and real world impact
  • Excited to build in a fast moving, founder led environment
Skills
ZendeskIntercomLinearAPI integrationsSaaS operationsFintech operationsKYCKYBAMLFraud detection
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