Senior Manager Technical Support

Hammerspace delivers a Global Data Environment that spans data centers, AWS, Azure, and Google cloud infrastructure. With origins in Linux, NFS, Open standards, Flash and deep file system and data management technology leadership, Hammerspace delivers the world’s first and only solution to connect global users with their data and applications, on any existing data center infrastructure or AWS, Azure, and Google services. For more information, please see our website at:https://hammerspace.com

Customers are the lifeblood of our company and Hammerspace is looking for a strategic, customer focused and results-driven Senior Manager of Technical Support. This position is an exciting opportunity to be on the front lines of ensuring our customers are successful with their Hammerspace product! We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on Senior Manager of Technical Support to build, lead, and scale our global technical support organization. This is a player-coach role—you’ll be rolling up your sleeves to work alongside the team while also driving long-term strategy and operational excellence. You’ll be a key liaison with our Engineering and Product teams, ensuring that customer feedback drives product innovation. As we scale rapidly, your leadership will be critical in creating a world-class technical support experience for our enterprise customers.

Responsibilities:

• Build and Lead the Support Team: Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing global support organization.
• Player-Coach Leadership: Actively participate in complex customer escalations while developing your team’s skills and autonomy.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with Engineering, Product Management, and Customer Success to drive issue resolution, advocate for customers, and contribute to product roadmap discussions.
• Customer Advocacy: Ensure customer issues are prioritized and resolved with urgency and care.
• Operational Excellence: Define and implement best practices, SLAs, KPIs, and reporting processes to measure and improve team performance.
• Startup Growth Mentality: Design scalable processes, anticipate future needs, and contribute to the leadership culture of a growing, agile organization.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze support data and customer feedback to drive iterative improvement in service delivery.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in technical support leadership roles, with at least 3 years leading high-growth teams in startup or scale-up environments.
• Proven player-coach leadership style with the ability to balance strategic leadership and hands-on technical engagement.
• Strong technical background—understanding of file systems, data storage, Linux environments, or enterprise software is a big plus.
• Track record of building trusted relationships with Engineering and Product teams.
• Exceptional communicator with executive presence; skilled at representing customer needs internally.
• Passion for team building, coaching, and talent development.
• Experience supporting enterprise B2B customers in mission-critical environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

●Ability to travel up to 10%

To the extent required by state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $150,000-200,000.Actual compensation will be determined by several factors including, but not limited to, level of professional/education experience, skills/abilities, internal equity, and budgetary considerations. In addition, Hammerspace offers a broad range of health plans for medical, dental, vision, life and disability. We also offer 401k plans and flexible time off. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Hammerspace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.

Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies:

Agencies are hereby specifically directed not to contact Hammerspace employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. To protect the interests of all parties, Hammerspace will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Hammerspace will be considered Hammerspace property. Hammerspace will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Hammerspace will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.Agency must obtain advance written approval from Hammerspace’s recruiting function to submit resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully-executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. Hammerspace will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place.