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Senior Manager - Assigned Support Engineering at GitLab. Location Information: North America,Latin America,EMEA. About the Role. GitLab’s Support Engineering team is a globally distributed organization committed to providing world-class technical support to our customers. As a Senior Manager for the Assigned Support Engineering team, you will lead a team of seasoned Support Engineers who deliver proactive, relationship-based technical support to our largest and most strategic customers.. This role is instrumental in driving customer satisfaction, reducing time-to-resolution, and improving product adoption. You’ll work closely with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure we deliver an integrated, high-touch support experience that reflects GitLab’s values of collaboration, transparency, and iteration.. What You’ll Do. Lead a high-performing global team of Assigned Support Engineers focused on premium customer accounts. Define and drive the strategy for the enhanced, assigned support offering, aligning with GitLab’s broader Customer Support and Success teams and product adoption goals. Mentor, coach, and grow team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and customer empathy. Establish operational excellence by implementing and optimizing processes around onboarding, ticket management, and customer engagement. Ensure applicable SLAs and KPIs are consistently met or exceeded. Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, CSAs, CSMs, SAs, Product Management, Engineering, and other leaders to advocate for customer needs and share insights from support interactions. Drive escalations and incident response for critical customer issues, serving as a point of contact for executive stakeholders when needed. Analyze data and feedback to continuously refine team operations, capacity planning, and customer engagement models. Champion the voice of the customer in internal planning and development discussions. What You’ll Bring. 8+ years of experience in technical support, with 3+ years in a people management role—preferably within a high-growth, SaaS or open-source environment. Proven experience managing a high-touch or assigned support function and/or professional service function for enterprise level customers. Strong technical aptitude, with the ability to guide and support engineers working in complex, production-critical environments. Deep customer empathy with a focus on proactive service and long-term customer outcomes. Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and collaboration in a fully remote, globally distributed team. Data-driven mindset with experience using support metrics and feedback loops to drive improvements. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Familiarity with Git, DevOps practices, or GitLab is a strong plus. Performance Indicators. Customer satisfaction (CES)  and Net Promoter Score (NPS). Support SLA/SLO adherence. Ticket deflection and time-to-resolution improvements. Internal and external stakeholder feedback. Team engagement and retention. Contribution to product quality via customer feedback loops. Projects. About the team. The Support team is distributed all over the world across AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions. Support Engineers and Managers work on Support Tickets and helping GitLab’s customers, but they also dig into the code and logs to find out why something is not working as expected. The Collaboration here at GitLab is extraordinary and exciting - Support Engineers . solve complex problems together. and participate in regular pairing sessions and 1:1s, as well as coffee chats and Slack conversations that help them stay connected. Support Team members are core contributors to our customer experience. We think a healthy customer experience is delivered by a healthy team. We focus on building processes at the intersection of our customer needs and our team’s wellbeing. GitLab Team Members have the opportunity for flexibility in their days to achieve that healthy balance. Thanks to our . Transparency. value, you can see what we are working on in our . Support Team. page. Additionally, you can see our company . roadmap. and . listen. to some of our meetings. .  . How GitLab will support you. Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being. All remote. , . asynchronous. work environment. Flexible Paid Time Off. Team Member Resource Groups. Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Growth and development budget . Parental leave.  . Home office support