Senior Director, Support Operations
Senior Director, Support Operations
Mission
Serve as the company's foremost support operations strategist
Tour of Duty
Scale support ops across the organization
About This Job Family
People in this job family help customers when things go wrong—answering questions, solving problems, and escalating issues that need engineering attention. Great support turns frustrated customers into loyal advocates.
What You'll Do
Support Operations professionals optimize support systems, processes, and analytics. They manage tools, build automations, and provide insights that improve support effectiveness. Success means a support organization that operates efficiently and delivers measurable results.
- • Serve as the company's foremost expert in support operations methodology
- • Define the strategic framework for support operational excellence
- • Establish thought leadership in support technology and automation
- • Architect innovative operational approaches for support transformation
- • Drive cross-functional alignment on support operations initiatives
- • Shape support ops culture through expertise and best practices
Every responsibility is an accomplishment waiting to happen. The question is: will you own the outcome, or just do the task?
Manage a Team?
Great managers are practitioners first. The IC responsibilities above are your foundation—the craft you model for your team. Your management responsibilities are additive:
- • Hire for empathy AND problem-solving—both are non-negotiable
- • Coach de-escalation and resolution—turn frustrated customers into advocates
- • Run 1:1s that build resilience—support is emotionally demanding work
- • Give feedback that's realistic—stretch goals, not impossible ones
- • Remove blockers—fight for tooling, product fixes, and reasonable workloads
Your team's accomplishments are your accomplishments. Help them craft S.M.A.R.T wins—specific, measurable, and ready to stand on their own.
AI as an Accelerator
AI isn't a skill we call out. It's invisible in the accomplishment but easily visible in the velocity and scale of your outcomes. Here's how people in this role are accelerating their work with AI:
- → Operations analysis
- → Building scale strategies
- → Creating efficiency frameworks
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The Competencies That Matter
Skills fill your toolbox. Competencies are how you wield them. Three matter most at this level:
1. CUSTOMER SUPPORT (2) Strong Customer Support skills required at this level.
2. OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE (2) Strong Operational Excellence skills required at this level.
3. STRATEGY (2) Strong Strategy skills required at this level.
The radar shows the full picture. These three are where you need to be undeniable.
Your Journey From Here
Going up? Your next Tour of Duty:
→ VP, Support Operations - Support Ops (L8) "Transform support operations practices"
The L7 → L8 gap is about ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT: • From functional leadership → company leadership • From technical strategy → business strategy • From building teams → building organizations
These are your stretch accomplishments. Start doing L8 work now. When you can prove it with accomplishments, you're ready.
Going sideways? That's valid too.
Up isn't the only direction. It's your career. You own it.
Competency Requirements
Competency Shape
- Customer Support
- Proficiency: 2
- Strategy
- Proficiency: 2
- Operational Excellence
- Proficiency: 2
- Analytics & BI
- Proficiency: 1
- IT Operations
- Proficiency: 1
- Quality Engineering
- Proficiency: 1
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Effective Date
July 2025
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