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Technical Customer Support Manager

Technical Customer Support Manager

SomewhereJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

Job Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced and proactive Customer Support Project Manager to join our customer support team. This individual will play a critical role in shaping and improving our complaint-to-resolution processes, managing support escalations and identifying trends that need resolution at the product / engineering level. The ideal candidate combines strong organizational and communication skills with hands‑on experience in customer support and project management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and Maintain Workflows : Collaborate cross-functionally to create and continuously improve a high-level complaint-to-resolution workflow that ensures speed, transparency and accountability.
  • Ticket Oversight and Assignment : Monitor open support tickets across all tiers, ensuring timely assignment and resolution. Balance workloads across the team and intervene when bottlenecks occur.
  • Escalation Management : Oversee and refine the process for escalating issues from Tier 2 to Tier 3, ensuring only well-documented and truly escalated issues are passed on to engineering.
  • Trend and Pattern Analysis : Regularly review ticket data to identify frequent or high-impact issues. Coordinate with Product and Engineering to create queues of recurring issues that need systemic fixes.
  • Customer Communication : Personally handle complex or sensitive customer interactions including complaint resolution, service recovery and follow-ups with empathy and professionalism.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration : Serve as a key liaison between Support, Product, Engineering and other departments. Translate customer pain points into actionable tasks and priorities.
  • Support Process Ownership : Act as the owner of key support processes and projects driving consistency, accountability and measurable outcomes.

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • 5 years in customer support or success roles with at least 2 years in a senior or managerial capacity.
  • Proven experience managing complex support workflows and escalations.
  • Strong project management skills; experience leading cross-functional initiatives.
  • Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Ability to handle challenging customer conversations with empathy and authority.
  • Experience using support and ticketing tools (e.g. Zendesk, Freshdesk, Jira, Salesforce Service Cloud).
  • Strong analytical skills with a knack for identifying trends and driving systemic improvements.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
  • Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in B2B SaaS or technical support environments.
  • Familiarity with service-level agreements (SLAs) and customer satisfaction metrics (e.g., CSAT, NPS).
  • What Success Looks Like

  • Reduction in ticket resolution times.
  • Clear, streamlined escalation workflows.
  • Improved customer satisfaction in escalated cases.
  • Regular insight reports on trending issues.
  • Strong collaboration between support and engineering teams.
  • Employment Details

    Employment Type : Full Time

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

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