Customer Support Engineer Manager

Vapi

$120K — $160K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in high-intensity technical support or solutions roles
  • At least 2 years of experience managing technical teams
  • Experience with REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems
  • Proven track record managing support operations for enterprise accounts
  • Understanding of prompt engineering and optimizing for voice latency
  • Ability to code in Python and JavaScript for debugging purposes
  • Knowledge of SIP, WebRTC, or Twilio preferred

Responsibilities

  • Master the nuances of Vapi stack and its sub-500ms latency
  • Audit enterprise ticket triage processes for complex integrations
  • Build relationships with L2 Support for efficient customer escalation
  • Enforce Severity SLAs for fast response to enterprise issues
  • Work with teams to prevent L1 CSEs from being ad-hoc for lower tiers
  • Collaborate on automating testing and refining platform features
  • Scale the L1 team to manage increasing enterprise deployment complexities

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity ownership
  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
  • Quarterly team off-sites to foster camaraderie
  • Unlimited PTO policy encouraging ~20 days off annually
  • Catered meals and commuter support
  • Gym membership and $10k annual learning and development budget
Full Job Description
Why We're Hiring This Role:
  • As Vapi scales its enterprise footprint, we need a technical leader to build and manage a world-class L1 Support Engineering team dedicated strictly to our Enterprise accounts.
  • This isn't a traditional "customer service" management role - it is engineering-led leadership. You will manage the team that unblocks our highest-value enterprise customers pushing the limits of LLMs, STT, and TTS in mission-critical environments.
  • Your team's efficiency in resolving technical friction for enterprise users during the stabilization phase will act as the primary engine protecting Net Revenue Retention (NDR).
  • You will serve as the strategic bridge between our enterprise base and L2 support team within core engineering, ensuring that high-value support feedback loops and API gaps directly shape our 2026 product roadmap.
  • You will enforce critical operational boundaries ensuring enterprise support interactions are triaged efficiently based on their specific account tiers (Strategic, Managed, Low Touch)


What You'll Do:

30 Day:
  • Master the Stack: Deep-dive into the Vapi stack, mastering nuances of sub-500ms latency, tool-calling, and the Vapi CLI.
  • Audit Enterprise Operations: Audit the current ticket triage process specifically for enterprise accounts utilizing complex SIP integrations, WebRTC, and custom LLM configurations.
  • Partner with Engineering: Build a relationship with the L2 Support team (sitting in Engineering) to ensure a seamless escalation path for our highest-value customers.

60 Day:
  • Enterprise SLA Excellence: Formalize and strictly enforce Severity SLAs for paying enterprise customers, ensuring P1 blockers receive a 4-hour first touch and P2 issues receive an 8-hour first touch.
  • Tier Enforcement: Work with Agent Strategists and Agent Engineers to ensure L1 CSEs are not becoming "ad-hoc FDEs" for lower-tier enterprise accounts, and correctly identify when support requests should be flagged as upsell opportunities.
  • Automation: Collaborate with Product to refine automated testing and Eval suites, turning frequent enterprise friction points into platform features

90 Day:
  • Team Growth: Own the technical health of the enterprise base and scale the L1 team to handle the increasing volume of complex enterprise deployments.
  • Knowledge Leadership: Oversee the publication of "God-tier" technical guides and debugging snippets tailored to complex enterprise integrations.
  • Strategic Feedback: Act as the primary bridge between enterprise stakeholders and core engineering, surfacing technical requirements to continuously improve the platform


Who You Are:
  • Technically Lethal Leader: 5+ years in high-intensity technical support or solutions roles, with at least 2 years of experience managing technical teams. You are fluent in REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems.
  • Enterprise Experienced: You have a proven track record of managing support operations for enterprise accounts and strictly adhering to commercial SLAs.
  • AI-Native: You understand prompt engineering, structured outputs, and how to optimize them for voice latency.
  • Code-Capable: You can still jump into Python or JavaScript to help your team debug an enterprise customer's middleware or build a reproduction agent.
  • Voice Fluent: Experience with SIP, WebRTC, or Twilio is highly preferred-you understand the "plumbing" of a phone call.
  • Relentlessly Autonomous: You don't wait for a playbook; you write the one that will scale Vapi to its next 1,000 enterprise customers


What We Offer:
  • Real stake: We offer a competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
  • Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites
  • Unlimited PTO, with a culture that encourages ~20 days off annually to recharge
  • More: catered meals, commuter support, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget

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