
Customer Support Team Lead with Vast Data, Inc.
Required skills
- NFS
- SMB
- S3
- client protocol debugging
- escalation management
- software developers
- continuous process improvement
- system reliability
- scalability
- performance
Nice to have
- market competition
- customer use cases
- product development
- service enhancements
- customer feedback
Role summary
Vast Data, Inc. is seeking a remote Customer Support Team Lead to manage a team of Customer Success Engineers handling technical storage and large-scale compute issues across the U.S. This role involves overseeing daily operations, optimizing support workflows, monitoring KPIs, and acting as a customer escalation liaison. The Team Lead will also manage team schedules, workload distribution, and collaborate with product and sales engineering teams to drive product improvements. Requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field and significant experience in customer support, client protocol debugging, escalation management, process improvement, technical reporting, team leadership, and resource planning.
*Telecommuting role to be performed anywhere in the U.S.
Job Duties: Lead regional team of Customer Success Engineers in handling highly technical storage
and large scale compute issues. Oversee the day-to-day operations of the customer support team,
including ticket management, response times, and escalations utilizing published runbooks. Develop
and optimize support workflows, processes, and procedures to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Monitor support metrics and KPIs to track team performance, identify areas for improvement, and
take corrective action. Support customers in configuration and issues faced daily, including identifying
high visibility customer issues, and acting as a customer escalation liaison ensuring needed Customer
Success and development engineers are engaged. Manage work schedules and workload distribution
within the support team to ensure optimal coverage and responsiveness, including holidays and
weekends. Engage in review and discussion of support metrics and KPIs to assess support
performance and identify areas for improvement. Advise on process enhancements to optimize
support workflows, increase efficiency, and elevate the overall customer support experience. Prepare
regular reports and dashboards on support performance, trends, and customer feedback.
Communicate support insights, challenges, and recommendations to key stakeholders, including
senior management and leadership teams. Collaborate with other departments to share customer
insights and contribute to product development and service enhancements. Collaborate with Product
Development Engineers and Sales Engineering teams to identify areas of concern or enhancement for
continuous product improvement using knowledge of market competition and customer use cases
that are from both past and current experience.
Requirements
Salary: $150,550 - $210,000 /year
Job Requirements: Bachelors degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer
Information Systems, Electronic Engineering or related field and ten (10) years of experience in the
job offered or related role. Must have ten (10) years of experience with client protocol debugging
including NFS, SMB and S3. Must have ten (10) years of escalation management experience working
with software developers. Must have five (5) years of experience with: leading continuous process
improvement initiatives to enhance system reliability, scalability, and performance; and preparing
and presenting technical status reports, Key Performance Indicator dashboards, and risk assessments
to senior leadership and external stakeholders. Must have four (4) years of technical team leadership
experience, including guiding and mentoring team members’ technical development. Must have two
(2) years of experience with: providing technical direction, task prioritization, and performance
oversight for team members; and conducting resource planning, workload allocation, and capacity
forecasting to support project execution. Domestic travel required 20% of the time to customer sites.
