Regional Director, Customer Support

The Regional Director of Support is responsible for leading a regional or large multi-team support organization, ensuring delivery of high-quality customer support while driving operational performance, strategic alignment, and continuous improvement. This role combines strong technical and customer expertise with leadership accountability for KPIs, financial performance, and cross-functional alignment.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Ensure regional teams deliver consistent, high-quality customer support, aligned with SLAs, KPIs, and customer expectations
• Ensure teams are proactive in customer communication, issue resolution, and escalation management
• Handle high-severity and executive-level customer escalations, ensuring strong communication and resolution outcomes
• Own regional performance across KPIs, SLAs, and customer outcomes, ensuring accountability across teams
• Ensure effective prioritization and resolution of high-impact and high-priority customer issues
• Drive consistency through reporting, dashboards, and operational governance
• Identify key product failure areas and partner with Product and Engineering to drive improvements
• Analyze support trends and recurring issues to inform continuous improvement and reduce future escalations
• Drive structured problem management practices, ensuring root causes are identified and long-term solutions are implemented
• Oversee resolution of critical incidents and escalations, ensuring alignment, prioritization, and timely resolution
• Ensure proactive communication with stakeholders during high-impact incidents
• Maintain consistency and effectiveness in escalation management practices across the region
• Partner with senior leadership, Engineering, and Product to align regional execution with global strategy
• Ensure regional teams collectively deliver against KPIs, SLAs, and customer expectations
• Work with executive leadership to recommend and implement tools, infrastructure improvements, and operational efficiencies (including AI)
• Establish consistent cadences (reporting, reviews, alignment meetings) to drive accountability and performance
• Promote cross-team collaboration, sharing insights, best practices, and lessons learned

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of related work experience, expert technical knowledge within their functional area(s), and typically 5+ years management experience
• Experience leading large, multi-team support organizations, including managers and senior managers
• Proven experience owning regional performance, including KPIs, SLAs, and operational outcomes
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives and operational improvements
• Strong leadership, organizational management, and decision-making skills
• Strong communication skills, including ability to engage executive stakeholders and customers
• Ability to analyze performance data and drive improvements
• Ability to manage performance at scale across multiple teams
• Ability to align teams, remove blockers, and drive accountability
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive outcomes
• Deep understanding of support operations, KPIs, SLAs, and performance management
• Strong knowledge of product environments, customer use cases, and industry practices