Director, Technical Support

Blackpoint Cyber is the leading provider of world-class cybersecurity threat hunting, detection and remediation technology. Founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) cyber operations experts who applied their learnings to bring national security-grade technology solutions to commercial customers around the world, Blackpoint Cyber is in hyper-growth mode, fueled by a recent $190m series C round. About The Role: The Director of Technical Support is a leadership role responsible for the execution and continuous improvement of Blackpoint Cyber’s technical support function. This individual will lead a team of technical support professionals, as a player-coach, dedicated to delivering timely, high-quality resolution experiences for Managed Service Provider (MSP) partners. As an AI-first leader, you will deploy agentic triage tools, drive automated Tier-1 resolution workflows, and intelligent deflection capabilities to scale the function’s impact. This role requires a leader equally comfortable at the strategic and tactical levels — someone who can architect long-term support programs while staying close to operational details that drive meaningful change. The Director of Technical Support will own the team's performance metrics and serve as a critical cross-functional partner to Engineering, Product, and Customer Success, ensuring field intelligence continuously informs the broader organization. The ideal candidate brings proven experience leading technical support organizations within cybersecurity, SaaS, or managed services environments, with a strong command of data-driven operations — including dashboard design to monitor team health, surface trends, and communicate performance insights to stakeholders. You also have hands-on experience deploying AI-powered support tools and building the frameworks that allow AI agents to operate at production scale in security-sensitive environments.

What You'll Do

Strategy & Execution: In conjunction with VP Customer Growth, define and drive the multi-year vision and roadmap for the Technical Support function, including the phased deployment of AI triage agents, automated Tier-1 resolution tools, and self-service capabilities, translating business objectives into measurable team-level goals and operational plans. Operational Ownership: Own all support KPIs end-to-end, including NPS, MTTR, first contact resolution, escalation rate, and SLA adherence, alongside the development of new AI-era metrics: ticket deflection rate, Tier-1 automation rate, self-service resolution rate, and knowledge base coverage rate, with direct accountability for outcomes. People Leadership: Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team of technical support engineers and team leads; define clear career paths, conduct regular coaching and performance reviews, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement. Build data literacy as a core team competency, coaching support engineers to work alongside AI tools as partners, not replacements. Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as a voice of the customer internally, converting support patterns and field intelligence into actionable feedback loops with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success. Use AI-derived ticket clustering and sentiment analysis to translate high-volume signals into prioritized product input, moving from anecdotal feedback to data-led influence. Incident Response Coordination: Oversee the support team’s role during critical security incidents affecting MSP partners, ensuring rapid escalation, clear partner communication, and tight coordination with internal technical teams. Define and enforce human-in-the-loop protocols for AI-assisted workflows during incidents, ensuring agents escalate correctly, and governance controls hold under pressure. Process & Tooling Optimization: Continuously evaluate and improve support workflows, escalation paths, and tooling (e.g., Zendesk, Zendesk AI, Salesforce , Jira) to increase resolution velocity and scale the team efficiently. Champion the adoption of agentic support tools from AI-powered triage and auto-resolution to LLM-assisted knowledge base maintenance and QA automation. Knowledge Base Governance: Build and maintain a continuously improving knowledge base using AI gap detection to identify missing or outdated articles from unresolved ticket patterns and auto-draft new content for human review. AI Triage & Automated Resolution Ownership: Deploy and govern AI-powered ticket triage agents and automated Tier-1 resolution workflows, targeting ~30% deflection of structured, repeatable tickets without human involvement. AI Governance & Compliance: In coordination with Blackpoint’s compliance team, establish governance standards for AI use in the support function, permission enforcement, complete audit trails, escalation triggers, and data handling controls that meet Blackpoint’s security and compliance standards. Dashboard & Data Intelligence: Design, maintain, Apply tot his job Apply To this Job