The Sage Group

Customer Support Manager

The Sage Group$135K — $155K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in IT support or operations
  • 2+ years managing remote and/or on-call teams
  • Experience in 24/7 operational environments
  • Strong incident management and escalation handling skills
  • Excellent communication and leadership abilities

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of remote on-call support engineers and IT staff
  • Manage staffing, scheduling, and coverage for 24/7 on-call rotations
  • Serve as escalation point for critical incidents and operational issues
  • Ensure documentation and runbooks are current and accessible
  • Drive process improvements and automation initiatives
  • Track KPIs including SLA compliance, response time, and resolution time
  • Partner with engineering and product teams on support readiness

Benefits

  • Collaborative office culture in New York City’s Union Square
  • Up to 2 remote workdays per week
  • Office lunch and a fully stocked snack bar
  • Fully-paid health and dental insurance coverage
  • Take as you need time off policy
  • 7 paid holidays and a company-wide winter break
Full Job Description
About this Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Customer Support Manager to lead a hybrid team consisting of remote on-call support specialists and internal IT operations staff. This role is responsible for ensuring 24/7 support coverage, maintaining high service levels, managing incident response, and driving operational excellence across both real-time support and IT functions. The ideal candidate is technically strong, experienced in managing distributed teams, a strong communicator and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities
  • Lead and mentor a team of remote on-call support engineers and IT staff
  • Manage staffing, scheduling, and coverage for 24/7 on-call rotations
  • Serve as escalation point for critical incidents and operational issues
  • Ensure documentation and runbooks are current and accessible
  • Drive process improvements and automation initiatives
  • Track KPIs including SLA compliance, response time, and resolution time
  • Provide regular operational reports to leadership
  • Partner with engineering and product teams on support readiness
  • Communicate operational risks and customer impact effectively

Minimum Qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience in IT support or operations
  • 2+ years managing remote and/or on-call teams
  • Experience with 24/7 operational environments
  • Strong incident management and escalation handling skills
  • Excellent communication and leadership abilities

Preferred Qualifications
  • Familiarity with monitoring/alerting tools
  • SME knowledge with Zendesk and other ticketings tools
  • Track record of building and sustaining high performance teams

Benefits and Pay

Our headquarters are located in New York City's Union Square. We believe in cross team collaboration. We think good ideas can come from anyone, and we've designed our processes to encourage participation from all. While we take our mission seriously, we don't take ourselves too seriously. We like to host offsites, outings, and team meals where we can connect as people, not just as colleagues. We offer office lunch and a fully stocked snack bar. While we are an in office culture, we allow up to 2 remote days per week.

Our benefits package for employees includes competitive base compensation along with stock options. The expected annual salary range for this role is $135,000 to $155,000 USD, depending on your level of expertise, your experience, and your performance in the interview process. We also provide fully-paid health and dental insurance coverage for all of our employees, along with other health benefits including vision insurance, membership to premium primary and urgent care, and online medical health providers. We also have a take as you need time off policy, in addition to 7 paid holidays and a company wide winter break during the holidays.

About The Sage Group

The Sage Group plc, commonly known as Sage, is a British multinational enterprise software company. It is the UK's second largest technology company and is the world's third-largest supplier of enterprise resource planning software, the largest supplier to small businesses, and has 6.1 million customers worldwide. Sage is headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom and has offices in 24 countries. The company is the patron of The Sage Gateshead music venue in Gateshead.
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