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Head of Technical Support

ContactMonkey
Toronto, ON
Full-time
Management
Posted 15 days ago

ContactMonkey's mission is to transform the way organizations communicate internally. Proudly Toronto based, we have been helping businesses boost growth and productivity through their internal communications all around the world. Today, brands such as Rogers, IKEA and KPMG use our powerful tech stack to create, send, and track HTML email within Outlook or Gmail.

2023 was a great year at ContactMonkey and 2024 is off to an amazing start. Here's what we've been up to:

  • Ranked by the Globe & Mail as one of Canada's fastest growing companies
  • Recognized as part of the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ awards program as one of the fastest-growing technology companies based on the highest revenue-growth % for over 4 years
  • Recognized in Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ as one of the fastest growing companies in North America
  • And finally to cap off the year, we just raised a $55 million Series A financing!

In this role you have the opportunity to make a significant impact at one of Canada's fastest-growing companies. If you are passionate about employee engagement and driving change through technology - you belong with us!

About the job

ContactMonkey is on the lookout for a Head of Technical Support to build and nurture our technical support function. You will leverage customer-facing experiences and be responsible for researching and implementing solutions to prevent or mitigate customer issues through a combination of proactive support and monitoring. You will partner with our Sales, CS, product and other cross-functional teams to provide the highest level of support and subject matter expertise to our strategic accounts.

We understand that joining a team is one of the most important decisions you make ❤️, and adding a team member is one of the most important decisions we'll make. Through our process, we want you to get to know us and understand how you approach problems, learn, and what motivates you.

What you'll be doing

  • Leading our team of Technical Support Representatives
  • Provide technical solutions and respond to technical requests from customers
  • Manage and resolve support issues with a high degree of technical complexity
  • Collaborate with other departments (Product, Sales, Customer Success, Engineering) to ensure transparent communication, share ideas, and streamline processes
  • Improve efficiencies by documenting and standardizing support processes along with capturing or developing best practices
  • Develop tools that will help in diagnosing, resolving, and triaging hard-to-get-at problems
  • Secure new customers and retain current customers through the provision of excellent customer service
  • Document knowledge in the form of incident notes, technical articles, and contributions to knowledge bases or forums within specific areas of expertise
  • Follow-up on customer commitments in a timely manner, balancing effectively both processes with the need to adapt to the situation
  • Facilitate ongoing retrospectives to relay lessons learned and feedback internally to our other client-facing and technical teams

About you

  • Ability to commute to our beautiful DT Toronto office 1-2 times per week
  • 3-10 years of experience in a Technical Support role focused on large scale enterprise customers
  • 2-5 years of leadership experience, including hiring, onboarding and growing a technical team from the ground up
  • Experiencing building a Technical Support systems from scratch
  • Experience succeeding in a scale-up environment
  • Clear communicator, both verbally and in writing, and you enjoy explaining things to others
  • Proven ability to thrive in a self-motivated fast-paced, ambiguous, and rapidly changing environment
  • Experience creating and maintaining customer specific playbooks, SOPs (standard operating procedures) and operating manuals
  • Foresight to anticipate and address potential issues before they become issues
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to interface with both technical and non-technical individuals as needed
  • You have previous experience working closely with other technical teams. Perhaps you've provided support for a technical product or worked in QA

How you can stand out

  • Experience with Exchange Online, Microsoft Office 365, G Suite, Azure AD, and Zendesk

Why ContactMonkey?

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