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Support Operations Specialist

Support Operations Specialists at AI companies own the systems, workflows, and team-level performance that keep customer support functioning as the company scales. In practice at AI companies this canonical role frequently extends into support team leadership and management—coaching agents, running performance reviews, owning headcount and capacity—alongside the operations work of designing workflows, configuring tooling, maintaining the knowledge base, and reporting on KPIs. The boundary with a Support Manager title is fuzzy across the population, with many jobs in this slug carrying both responsibilities. These roles typically sit within customer support or customer experience organizations, partnering with product and engineering on tooling and product feedback, and with people operations on team-related questions.

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Support Operations ManagerProduct Support Specialist
Open Jobs20
Companies Hiring15
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Measured across 19 of 20 open postings.

53%
expect AI in the role's own work
16% state it as a requirement
74%
work directly with customers
58%
manage people
Manager
most common level
42% of open postings
WHAT THEY ASK FOR, VERBATIM

“Use AI and automation to improve partner-related support workflows and scale operations effectively.”

OpenAI · Support Program Manager, Partnerships

“building and maintaining the AI-powered knowledge that fuels our customer-facing chatbot and internal AI Copilot”

Vanta · AI Agent Operations Specialist, Support

“Spot the repetitive steps in agent and admin workflows before they become bottlenecks, and build the automations, bulk actions, and scripts, including in Replit, that take them out.”

Replit · Support Systems Lead (NYC)

“rapidly evolving AI infrastructure platform”

Crusoe · Director, Customer Enablement
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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

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Support performance analytics

68%

Process design and improvement

32%

End-user technical support

26%

Support tooling configuration

26%

Escalation and incident response

21%

Technical issue diagnosis

21%

Incident response and reliability

16%

Program and project management

16%

Systems integration and APIs

16%

Infrastructure automation and IaC

11%

Customer and account operations

11%

Operational metrics and analytics

11%
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AI workflow automation

37%

AI support automation

32%

AI evaluation design

11%
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Cross-functional collaboration

68%

Technical team leadership and mentoring

53%

Customer feedback synthesis

32%

Customer-facing technical delivery

21%

Change management

21%
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Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

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Pythonmoderate
Golow
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Apache Sparklow
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Zendeskmoderate
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Intercommoderate
Slacklow
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APIlow
Webhookslow
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Open Jobs

20 open Support Operations Specialist jobs across 15 companies.

OpenAI21h
Support Program Manager, Partnerships
San Francisco·Customer Support
Vanta3d
AI Agent Operations Specialist, Support
Remote U.S.·Customer Support
n8n1w
Strategic Customer Experience & Success Programs Manager
Germany·Customer Support
Isomorphic Labs2w
Technical Support Operations Manager, London
London·Customer Support
Waymo2w
Partner & Enterprise Support Lead
San Francisco, CA, USA·Customer Support
Replit1mo
Support Systems Lead (NYC)
NYC (SoHo)·Customer Support
Replit1mo
Support Systems Lead (Foster City)
Foster City, CA·Customer Support
Abnormal Security1mo
Critical Situation Manager
Remote - USA·Customer Support
Crusoe2mo
Director, Customer Enablement
San Francisco, CA - US·Customer Support
Scale AI2mo
Support Team Lead
Argentina; Mexico City, MX·Customer Support
Notion2mo
Product Support Manager
Hyderabad, India·Customer Support
Clay2mo
Product Support Manager
San Francisco·Customer Support
OpenAI2mo
Support Operations Lead
San Francisco·Customer Support
Multiverse3mo
Senior Manager, Learner & Client Support
London·Customer Support
Databricks3mo
Senior Manager - Technical Solutions (Big Data / AI)
Bengaluru, India·Customer Support
Notion3mo
Customer Experience Strategy & Operations Lead
New York, New York·Customer Support
Figma4mo
Support Engineer, AI Infrastructure & Tooling
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States·Customer Support
Databricks4mo
Sr. Manager – Data & AI Support Engineering
Plano, Texas·Customer Support
OpenAI4mo
Support Delivery Lead, EMEA - Dublin
Dublin, Ireland·Customer Support
Lovable6mo
Product Experience Team Lead
Boston·Customer Support