Role
StarCompliance is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Technical/Application support manager (Associate Director) to lead our UK-based Client Support Services team. This is a key leadership role responsible for delivering exceptional support experiences to our global client base while driving operational excellence, technical leadership, and continuous improvement across our support function.
Reporting directly to the Head of Client Support Services & Environments, you will lead a team of technical support professionals, champion a culture of accountability and development, and serve as a senior escalation point for complex client and platform issues.
The successful candidate will bring a unique combination of strong people leadership, customer focus, and deep technical expertise within SaaS and cloud-based environments. You will be equally comfortable coaching team members, engaging with senior client stakeholders, and leading the investigation and resolution of complex technical challenges. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role within one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in compliance technology, helping shape the future of support operations while ensuring our clients receive an exceptional service experience.
Responsibilities
Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of technical support professionals.
Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and customer excellence.
Act as the senior escalation point for critical client incidents and complex technical issues.
Partner closely with Product, Professional Services, Relationship Management and Sales teams to ensure effective resolution of customer challenges.
Oversee support operations, ensuring service levels, response times and customer satisfaction targets are consistently achieved.
Identify opportunities to improve support processes, tooling, automation and operational efficiency.
Provide leadership during major incidents, coordinating cross-functional teams and stakeholder communications.
Analyze support trends, root causes and service metrics to drive proactive improvements.
Support strategic initiatives relating to platform reliability, scalability and client experience.
Skills and Experience
Proven experience leading and developing technical support, service delivery, operations or customer support teams within a SaaS environment.
Extensive experience of managing teams in fast-paced, high-growth technology organizations.
Strong technical background supporting enterprise web applications and cloud-based platforms, including application hosting and operational support.
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, SSMS and T-SQL.
Strong understanding of incident management, problem management, root cause analysis and service improvement methodologies.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical investigations involving multiple stakeholders and systems.
Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels, from technical specialists to senior client executives.
Proven ability to coach, mentor and develop individuals while building highly engaged and high-performing teams.
Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
About StarCompliance
StarCompliance is one of the fastest growing SaaS technology companies in Compliance software. All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner.
Skills Required
- Proven experience leading technical support, service delivery, operations or customer support teams within a SaaS environment.
- Experience managing teams in fast-paced, high-growth technology organisations.
- Strong technical background supporting enterprise web applications and cloud-based platforms, including application hosting and operational support.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, SSMS and T-SQL.
- Strong understanding of incident management, problem management, root cause analysis and service improvement methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical investigations involving multiple stakeholders and systems.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to engage from technical specialists to senior client executives.
- Proven ability to coach, mentor and develop individuals and build high-performing teams.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills to manage multiple competing priorities.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
What We Do
StarCompliance is the world's leading provider of compliance software to the global financial industry. Our clients include asset managers, broker-dealers, private equity firms, insurance providers, investment banks, and diversified financial institutions. Our scalable, easy-to-use solutions provide a 360-degree view of employee and business activity to help firms monitor and reduce risk, meet regulatory obligations, gain efficiencies, and drive employee adoption. Our Employee Conflicts of Interest suite provides clients a single place for monitoring and mitigating potential employee conflicts, covering: personal trading activity; insider trading; private investments, gifts and entertainment spending; outside business activities; and political donations. The STAR Mobile app supports personal trading pre-clearance requests and gifts and entertainment spending submissions, and allows compliance officers and employee supervisors to review and approve those requests and submissions on-the-go. Compliance Control Room centralizes all firm deal-related activity—automatically surfacing critical data that might otherwise be missed—and allowing for easier conflict searches, so deals can be cleared faster and with greater confidence.
