Senior Technical Support and Documentation Manager

Axle Health

$110K — $130K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7+ years in technical customer support or customer success for B2B SaaS products
  • Demonstrated ability to build support processes and documentation from scratch
  • Experience with complex SaaS platforms in regulated environments
  • Technical expertise to independently diagnose issues and perform root-cause analysis
  • Proficient in crafting user-friendly troubleshooting guides and documentation
  • Data-driven prioritization approach through tracking issue types and volumes
  • Experience in early or growth stage startups, comfortable with ambiguity and building structure

Responsibilities

  • Own first response and severity classification for incoming issues
  • Diagnose and resolve customer issues or escalate with full context
  • Manage the end-to-end customer-facing and internal knowledge base
  • Track frequent issues and prioritize documentation to reduce ticket volumes
  • Define and own resolution-time SLAs by severity and customer tier
  • Establish proactive monitoring to identify issues before customer reports
  • Create a tiered support program with differentiated SLAs and service levels

Benefits

  • Opportunity to build a technical support function from the ground up
  • Active involvement in both customer support and software documentation
  • Possibility to work with AI-powered technology in a growing field
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
  • Engagement with a fast-paced startup environment that values innovation
Full Job Description
About You - The Role

Axle Health is hiring a Senior Technical Support and Documentation Manager to build and own post-launch technical support as a defined function for the first time. We're building AI-powered scheduling and workforce management software for home health organizations, and getting customers live is only the beginning - keeping them running, resolving issues fast, and making sure the same problems don't resurface is just as critical to the business. This role reports to the Head of Professional Services and owns the full support loop: first response, triage, resolution, and a knowledge base that compounds with every closed ticket.

The person who thrives here has no interest in inheriting a playbook. You'll be the one writing it. You'll debug issues directly, own customer-facing communication, and document resolutions so the next occurrence doesn't require a call. This is a hands-on individual contributor role - the expectation is that you're doing the work, not coordinating others to do it for you. If you're energized by building systems from scratch and owning what you create, this is the right kind of challenge.

You've been in this position before in a B2B SaaS environment: you've owned post-launch support or technical enablement end to end, built the processes yourself, and measured whether they worked. You can diagnose a customer issue, drive it to resolution, and write it up clearly enough that a customer admin can handle the next one independently. You know the difference between problems that need better documentation and problems that shouldn't exist at all - and you know how to communicate that distinction to engineering in a way that drives action.

What You'll Do
  • Triage: Own first response and severity classification for every incoming issue, using strong technical literacy to route or resolve quickly and keep response times within SLA.
  • Resolution and Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve customer issues directly, or escalate with full root-cause context to the right internal owner when a fix requires engineering intervention.
  • Documentation and Knowledge Base: Own the customer-facing and internal knowledge base end to end - troubleshooting run books, admin documentation, implementation guides, and FAQs built from real resolutions, not assumptions.
  • Self-Service Enablement: Track which issues generate the most volume and write against that list first, with success measured by a falling ticket rate per account over time, not just faster triage.
  • SLA Definition and Ownership: Define resolution-time SLAs by severity level and customer tier, make them visible across the team, and hold the standard you set.
  • Proactive Monitoring: Build and maintain monitoring that surfaces issues before customers report them, shifting the function from reactive to proactive wherever possible.
  • Product and Engineering Feedback Loop: Separate recurring issues into two buckets - what needs better documentation and what shouldn't require documentation at all - and bring the second category to Product and Engineering with supporting data: frequency, accounts affected, and support hours consumed.
  • Tiered Support Design: Design and operationalize a tiered support program - defining Standard, Premium, and Enterprise service levels with differentiated SLAs, response priorities, and support entitlements. Partner with Professional Services and Sales to build the business case for how tiers are priced and resourced.
Requirements
Must Haves
  • 5-7+ years in technical customer support, customer success, or QA for a B2B SaaS product - with demonstrated ownership of building support processes and documentation from scratch, not inheriting and maintaining someone else's
  • Experience supporting or performing QA on complex SaaS platforms with heavy business logic in regulated environments
  • Technical depth to diagnose customer issues independently - comfortable navigating logs, reproducing issues in a sandbox, and driving root-cause analysis without relying on engineering for the initial diagnostic work
  • Strong written communication - you can write a troubleshooting run book or admin guide that a customer can follow and resolve independently, without a call
  • Experience building and owning a knowledge base or documentation system end to end - not contributing to one someone else structured
  • Data-driven approach to prioritization - tracks issue volume by type, uses that signal to decide what to document first and what to surface to engineering as a product problem rather than a documentation gap
  • Prior experience at an early or growth stage startup - comfortable building structure where none exists and making judgment calls without a defined playbook behind you
Nice to Haves
  • Healthcare, home health, or field operations vertical experience - you understand the operational context your customers are managing
  • Experience setting and managing support SLAs in a prior role - you've defined the standard, not just worked within one someone else set
  • Familiarity with monitoring or observability tooling - able to configure alerts and surface issues proactively, not just respond when customers report them
  • SQL or similar ability to pull and aggregate data independently - useful for building the reporting that backs your feedback to engineering
  • Experience using AI tools to accelerate documentation or troubleshooting workflows

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