Head of Technical Support and AI Integration

Head Of Technical Support And Ai Integration

Clerk Chat's mission is to make every business conversational. We are achieving this by building the leading messaging application, integrating AI where it matters, and crafting our own telecom infrastructure. It's big and bold and needs spirited adventurers to join our growing team.

We've built Clerk Chat organically into a profitable business over the last 2 years. We're a team that believes in achieving your highest potential but not at the expense of work-life balance. That's why we have flexible vacation time, healthy quarterly bonuses, and creative freedom at the forefront. We're Silicon Valley-based entrepreneurs who have sold companies, gone through the exclusive HF0 AI residency, having previously built teams at Lucasfilms, Samsung, Netflix, DocuSign, and Series B+ Startups.

Clerk Chat is a hybrid team of in-office and remote employees. Our headquarters is based in San Francisco, just three blocks south of the Embarcadero BART station, making it easy to commute and stay connected. Our in-office team appreciates being in the office five days a week because it fosters real-time collaboration, builds stronger relationships, and helps us move faster. The remote team is strategically based around the US to provide the best experience for our customers and drive impact. This is an exciting time to join Clerk Chat. We're small enough that every individual has a big impact, but we're growing fast enough that there's tremendous room for career advancement.

The Head Of Technical Support And Ai Integration is a foundational leadership role, you are responsible for ensuring our fast-growing customer base receives world-class, efficient, and technically sound support. You will drive the evolution of our support function, focusing on operational excellence, deep technical understanding, and scalable automation. The ideal candidate has experience leading technical support teams, thrives in cross-functional environments, and is passionate about leveraging AI and automation to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.

What you will do :

• Lead and mentor our Support team, with a focus on technical excellence, customer empathy, and professional development.
• Act as a player-coach : lead the team 70% of the time while also directly handling complex issues 30% of the time (e.g., porting or SMS debugging)
• Partner with Engineering and Product to resolve platform issues, improve tools, and automate workflows using AI and other technologies.
• Drive continuous improvement by analyzing support data, identifying patterns, and implementing process and product improvements that reduce ticket volume and increase CSAT.
• Create systems and frameworks to ensure support SLAs are met while maintaining a high standard of quality and thoughtful human support.
• Build and maintain dashboards, processes, and documentation to ensure support insights are surfaced to the broader team.
• Be the voice of the customer internally, flagging product friction, bugs, or opportunities for new features, and representing support in cross-functional planning.
• Design a scalable foundation for a support org that can handle complex issues, emerging AI tools, and future global growth.

What you will need :

Nice to have :

Clerk Chat provides several benefits to help you bring your best self to work :

Salary Range :

The annual base pay range for this role is : $180,000 - $210,000

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry and are one part of our total compensation package that also includes benefits and other perks. We also include stock options in this compensation package and believe all employees should have the opportunity to become owners in the company. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

We encourage all qualified candidates to apply! Our recruiting team will carefully review each resume, and we look forward to considering you for this opportunity.

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