Manager, Customer Support Engineering
WFA Digital Insight
The Manager of Customer Support Engineering role at Fivetran is a pivotal position that requires a unique blend of technical expertise and leadership skills. As the first line of defense for enterprise customers, this role has a direct impact on dbt Cloud's usage and customer retention. The successful candidate will need to strategize and implement support processes, foster a culture of continuous learning, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive customer satisfaction and product adoption. What sets this role apart is the opportunity to work with a pioneering company in the data infrastructure space and contribute to the development of a trusted foundation for analytics and AI.
Job Description
From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About Us
Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data. Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on. Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.
As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact. During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.
About the role
Customer support is on the very front-lines of assisting our dbt Cloud customers and we are looking for a Manager of our Customer Solutions Engineering team who will be the first line of defense for our Enterprise customers. The person will play a pivotal role in impacting dbt Cloud's usage and increase retention by helping users quickly adopt dbt Cloud within their organizations.
What You'll Do
- Lead and develop a team of Customer Solutions Engineers across the APJ regions, ensuring high-quality technical support for enterprise customers.
- Strategize and implement support processes to enhance support operations, facilitating smooth and efficient issue resolution.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within your team, ensuring they are equipped to support the evolving landscape of dbt Cloud and the modern data stack.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance customer satisfaction, drive product adoption, and ensure a seamless customer experience.
- Monitor and analyze team performance, providing regular feedback and coaching to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Advocate for customers within the organization, ensuring their needs and feedback influence product development and innovation.
- Lead by example, offering hands-on support and guidance to both customers and team members, driving towards excellence in every interaction.
Skills We're Looking For
- Extensive experience in technical support or engineering, preferably with enterprise-level customers in a SaaS environment.
- A proven track record of building and leading high-performing technical support or engineering teams.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with a capacity to handle complex technical issues and provide effective solutions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of navigating diverse cultural and regional nuances within a global team.
- Adeptness at project and program management, with a keen ability to organize, prioritize, and manage cross-functional projects.
- Experience with analytics engineering tools and processes.
- Familiarity with SQL, including the ability to read, interpret, and write queries.
- A proven background in collaborating with engineering and product teams to build scalable solutions for bug triage and investigation, quantitative product feedback, and communicating “the voice of the customer”.
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Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays (including a year end Global Week of Rest), and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.
We’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
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How to Stand Out
- When applying for this role, highlight your technical expertise in data infrastructure and dbt Cloud, as well as your experience in leading and managing high-performing teams.
- Be prepared to provide examples of your ability to strategize and implement support processes, facilitate smooth and efficient issue resolution, and foster a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within a team.
- Showcase your excellent communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills, as well as your ability to analyze complex technical issues and provide high-quality technical support.
- Emphasize your experience in working with enterprise customers, providing high-quality technical support, and advocating for customers within an organization.
- Consider including a portfolio or examples of your technical documentation and knowledge bases to support customer success.
- Be prepared to discuss your experience with Excel and data analysis, as well as your familiarity with the modern data stack and related technologies.
- Research Fivetran's products and services, as well as the company culture, to demonstrate your interest and enthusiasm for the role and the company.
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