Customer Support Engineer, Senior Manager

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San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
Lead and manage a technical support engineering team for enterprise customers, ensuring efficient operations and strong collaboration with engineering teams to enhance product development and customer satisfaction.
Summary Generated by Built In

Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/):

  • Voice AI that resolves, not transfers

  • Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life

  • Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents

  • Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised

  • Try talking to Vapi now!

Why We’re Hiring This Role:

  • Reporting to the Head of Customer Engagement, we need a technical leader to build and manage a world-class Support Engineering team that spans from SMB ISVs to large Enterprises.

  • 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 customers will act as a primary engine protecting Net Revenue Retention.

  • You will serve as the strategic bridge between our enterprise base and L2 support team to ensure feedback loops that directly shape our product roadmap with core engineering.

  • You will enforce critical operational boundaries ensuring enterprise support interactions are triaged efficiently while identifying patterns and opportunities for product, documentation and customer-facing tools that solve common pain points.

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.

  • Build trust with the team: Connect with our L1 enterprise support and L2 Support team to find gaps, optimizations, and improve escalation paths.

60 Day:

  • Enterprise SLA Excellence: Formalize and strictly enforce Severity SLAs for paying enterprise customers.

  • Tier Enforcement: Work with Agent Strategists and FDE to ensure L1 CSEs are not becoming "ad-hoc FDEs" and correctly identify when support requests should be flagged as more complex engagements.

  • 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 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 adhering to commercial SLAs.

  • On-Call & Incident Ownership: Experience owning incident response process for a technical support org, including escalation paths into core engineering and postmortem/RCA discipline for enterprise SLAs.

  • AI-Native: You understand prompt engineering, structured outputs, and how to optimize them for voice latency. Further, you have built out custom agents/skills to make Support Engineers more effective and are familiar with new Support technologies like Plain, Pylon, etc.

  • Code-Capable: You can still jump into Python or JavaScript to help your team debug a customer’s middleware or build a production agent.

  • Voice Fluent: Experience with SIP, WebRTC, or Twilio is 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.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years in technical support or solutions roles
  • 2 years managing technical teams
  • Proven track record managing support operations for enterprise accounts
  • Fluency in REST APIs, webhooks, event-driven systems
  • Experience with SIP, WebRTC, or Twilio
  • Capable of coding in Python or JavaScript

Vapi Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vapi and has not been reviewed or approved by Vapi.

  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity is presented as meaningful ownership in a fast‑growing startup, with substantial grants emphasized and an explicit “ownership culture.” This positioning gives employees a real financial stake in the company’s growth.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is described as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, with additions like One Medical and Spring Health and claims of 100% employer‑paid coverage for employees in some materials. This breadth indicates strong protection for employees and families.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Everyday perks include a $10,000 annual learning budget, daily catered meals, commuter support, fitness memberships (e.g., Equinox), and quarterly offsites. Public materials also cite significant per‑employee investment beyond salary.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
48 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Vapi lets enterprises deploy human-like voice agents in minutes. Whether you’re building a voice product or trying to handle millions of calls, Vapi’s reliable infrastructure and flexible APIs make it easy. Everyone from YC startups to Fortune 500 companies rely on Vapi because it is: Flexible: Plug in your APIs, your customer data, your models Scalable: Handle millions of calls with <500ms latency Secure: LLM guardrails, HIPAA, SOC-2 Helping enterprises over this challenge, Vapi, has raised $20 million in Series A funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Abstract Ventures, AI Grant, Y Combinator, Saga Ventures, and Michael Ovitz.

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