ManagerSr. Manager, Global Support

AI at Zapier

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Hi there!

Were open to hiring this role at either the Manager or Senior Manager level. Were optimizing for Senior Manager scope so the JD below leans in that direction but if youre a strong Manager candidate who brings something exceptional wed love to meet you. Both levels will be considered throughout the process.

Support at Zapier is in the middle of an exciting transformation. Were scaling our Enterprise business and rebuilding how support operates around AI and this role sits at the center of both. Youll lead a team of Technical Support Specialists with your working hours aligned to the Pacific (PST) timezone reporting to the Director of Global Support. At the Senior Manager level your accountability extends across Global Support not just your direct team. Youll own AI transformation initiatives operate as a strategic partner to the Director and build the cross-functional credibility that makes Support a real partner to Product Build and Go-To-Market.

At either level you bring deep customer centricity a genuine bias for action and a track record of building with AI not just using it.

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This role is open to candidates globally not just the US and Canada. What matters is that youre available during Pacific Time core hours and based in a country where were set up to hire. If youre unsure whether your location qualifies well confirm that during the process.

About You

• You bring 6-8 years of experience leading customer support teams in a SaaS or tech environment. Youve built accountability systems coached people toward independence and developed talent intentionally. Your team feels the difference. Experience leading other managers is a plus.

• You use AI in your work today not occasionally but as part of how you operate at a high level. You can point to workflows youve built how your approach has evolved through iteration and the impact on quality efficiency and experience while intentionally applying AI for the right outcomes setting a high bar for outputs and taking ownership of what ships.

• You connect support operations to business outcomes. You understand how queue health support ticket deflection and proactive support programs connect to ARR retention and cost efficiency and you use that lens to make decisions not just report on them.

• Youre decisive and default to action. You dont need every variable resolved before you move and you know that waiting for certainty is usually the riskiest call.

• You have deep fluency in support operations: workforce management capacity planning SLA management and queue health metrics. You know what good looks like and you know how to get there.

• You make your teams work visible and build genuine cross-functional trust. Other teams come to you for the customer perspective when theyre making decisions not just when theres a problem.

• You communicate clearly and proactively in async distributed environments. Your team and your stakeholders always know where things stand.

• At the Senior Manager level: Youve operated as a strategic partner to senior leadership. Youre comfortable owning strategy work stepping into Sr. Leader conversations and holding organizational context across a broader team.

Things Youll Do

• Lead and develop a team of 8 Technical Support Specialists with clear goals documented expectations and coaching systems that build self-sufficiency not dependency on you. Own the full talent lifecycle: hiring onboarding performance and development. This role starts with IC management only but a Senior Manager here develops the leaders around them too not just their direct team.

• Spend a minimum of 2 hours per week in customer-facing queues to stay directly connected to the customer experience and maintain product knowledge.

• Own 1 to 2 AI or automation initiatives per half from defining the opportunity to measuring business impact. Use Zapiers own products to reduce ticket volume redesign workflows and free up capacity for more proactive support work. Set the tone that experimentation and iteration are core to the job not a distraction from it. Stay plugged into whats happening in AI across the company and industry identify where Global Support can lead learn or plug in and bring it back to the team.

• Hold accountability for your teams queue performance and the operational health of Global Support as a whole. Partner with Workforce Management to model capacity scenarios and respond dynamically to volume shifts.

• Partner with Support Operations on support ticket deflection and self-service improvements with a clear eye on the downstream impact on cost and revenue. Drive proactive support programs like churn prevention onboarding health checks and high-touch retention moments that keep Support ahead of problems not behind them.

• Represent Global Support across the business and be a proactive voice for the customer. Make Supports work visible: share what youre learning whats working and whats coming. Build genuine trust outside Support so other teams turn to you for the customer perspective when making product and GTM decisions not just when theres a problem.

• Build strong relationships with peer managers and stakeholders. Take a first-team approach to problem-solving and lead your team through change with clear communication and readiness.

• Apply DIBE practices actively in hiring coaching and day-to-day leadership. Build and maintain an inclusive team environment measured semi-annually in the engagement survey.

• At the Senior Manager level: Work alongside the Director to co-develop team-wide strategy set priorities align on resource allocation and drive initiatives from idea to outcome. Translate org goals into clear team direction connected to ARR retention and cost efficiency. Proactively flag misalignment before it becomes a blocker.

Application Deadline:

The anticipated application window is 30 days from the date job is posted unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later or if the position is filled.

Even though were an all-remote company we still need to be thoughtful about where we have Zapiens working. Check out this resource for a list of countries where we currently cannot have Zapiens permanently working.

Required Experience:

Manager