What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Technical Support Engineering position at Sigma Computing?
About the role:
The Director of Technical Support Engineering will lead and scale Sigma's global technical support organization, ensuring operational excellence as the company grows. Reporting to the VP of Technical Operations, this role owns the vision, strategy, and execution needed to deliver world-class technical support while building a team that balances technical expertise with customer focus. You will lead through managers and individual contributors, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market leaders to drive platform improvements, operational scale, and customer-impacting outcomes. This role is also responsible for developing talent and fostering a culture of growth, accountability, and collaboration, while balancing strategic leadership with hands-on involvement when needed.
Sigma's Technical Support team was awarded the 2024 Stevie Gold Award for Customer Service.
What You Will Be Doing
- Lead and mentor a team of exceptional Technical Support Engineers and Support Managers supporting customers with technical questions, business workflows, and data use cases.
- Develop and execute the vision and strategy for Technical Support Engineering, ensuring operational excellence while aligning with business goals, customer needs, and product growth.
- Partner with the VP of Technical Operations to drive scale, operational rigor, process improvement, and growth across key investment areas in the business.
- Step directly into technical and operational challenges when needed, rolling up your sleeves to resolve critical issues and unblock execution alongside the team
- Leverage support metrics and insights to lead operational improvements that accelerate resolution, improve quality, and deliver better customer outcomes.
- Build and execute hiring, onboarding, and career development plans that grow top talent and establish clear pathways for advancement within the support organization.
- Lead large, cross-functional initiatives from planning through delivery, coordinating teams, managing timelines, resolving blockers, and ensuring successful delivery.
- Own and advance support tooling and workflows, leveraging telemetry and customer insights to proactively detect issues, automate solutions, scale self-service, and build systems that accelerate customer outcomes.
- Be the voice of Technical Support with Product and Engineering leadership, influencing platform priorities and improvements through customer insights.
Qualifications We Need
- Proven experience leading and scaling technical support teams in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.
- You've used data to improve how your team operates, driving measurable results for the company.
- Ability to represent Technical Support's perspective to executive stakeholders, advising on support strategies and collaborating across Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams.
- Strategic mindset and creative problem-solving skills; demonstrated ability to lead multiple initiatives simultaneously in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Proficient in enterprise analytics and business intelligence platforms, with strong technical acumen across databases, SQL, cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery), and ETL solutions (Fivetran, Matillion).
- Ability to build trust with customers and stakeholders by resolving issues quickly while scaling proactive, automation-driven solutions that improve customer outcomes.
- Computer Science fundamentals or equivalent technical background, with deep domain expertise in databases, data modeling, and business intelligence.
Additional Job details
The base salary range for this position is $210,000 - $250,000 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work at Sigma Computing. This role is eligible for stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
About us:
Sigma is the only cloud analytics and business intelligence tool empowering business teams to break free from the confines of the dashboard, explore data for themselves, and make better, faster decisions. The award-winning software was built to capitalize on the performance power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly via an intuitive, spreadsheet-like interface – no coding required.
Since launching with its unique interface, Sigma Computing has added features such as collaboration tools and embedded analytics capabilities. The most recent product launch included a set of AI tools such as forecasting capabilities, an AI copilot and a notebook interface for users who prefer a code-first environment.
Sigma announced its $200M in Series D financing in May 2024, to continue transforming BI through its innovations in AI infrastructure, data application development, enterprise-wide collaboration, and business user adoption. Spark Capital and Avenir Growth Capital co-led the Series D funding round, with additional participation from a group of past investors including Snowflake Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures.The Series D funding, raised at a valuation 60% higher than the company's Series C round three years ago, promises to further accelerate Sigma's growth.
Come join us!
Benefits For Our Full-Time Employees:
- Equity
- Generous health benefits
- Flexible time off policy. Take the time off you need!
- Paid bonding time for all new parents
- Traditional and Roth 401k
- Commuter and FSA benefits
- Lunch Program
- Dog friendly office
Sigma Computing is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a smart and strong team regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We look forward to learning how your experience can enable all of us to grow.
Note: We have an in-office work environment in all our offices in SF, NYC, and London.
Salary : $210,000 - $250,000
