Product Support Manager
Conviva · Bangalore
Collected role description
Role overview
Product Support Manager at Conviva
Responsibilities
- You will manage a team of Product Support Engineers, own the regional support operations, and serve as the primary escalation point for complex customer issues.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Support Engineers.
- Ensure issues are investigated thoroughly, resolved efficiently, and communicated clearly at every step via Salesforce and JIRA.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with Engineering and Product to resolve complex issues, identify recurring patterns, and turn customer signals into product improvements.
- Build and execute training plans that develop technical depth and product knowledge across the team.
- Help your engineers work smarter, investigate faster, and consistently do more with less manual effort.
Employment details
- Location: Bengaluru [India]
About the employer
- Conviva is the experience analytics platform for AI agents, apps, and streaming.
- With full-census, real-time, stateful analytics, Conviva shows what consumers actually experience, not just whether systems are running, and connects that experience to revenue, retention, and risk.
- Learn more at conviva.ai and follow the company on LinkedIn and YouTube .
Additional role details
- Conviva pioneered quality of experience measurement for streaming video and has supported live digital experiences across 20 Super Bowls, 10 Olympic Games, and five FIFA World Cup tournaments.
- We are looking for a Product Support Manager to lead our Bengaluru support team.
- This is a hands-on leadership role: you stay close to the work, understand the product deeply, and set a standard that your team wants to live up to.
- You will report to the Global Head of Support based in the US and operate with a high degree of ownership and independence.
- What success looks like:
- Run regular 1:1s, set clear goals, identify growth opportunities, and build a team culture where accountability and continuous learning are the norm.
- Serve as the technical and operational leader for the India support team.
- You are in the product, understand how data flows end-to-end, and bring genuine technical depth to complex escalations and investigations.
- Own customer escalations and case management end-to-end.
- Define and track team performance metrics.
- Identify process gaps and implement improvements that raise the bar on resolution quality, response time, and customer satisfaction.
- Establish subject matter experts within the team over time.
- Champion the use of AI tools and modern workflows within the team.
- Coordinate operational responsibilities including incident communication, release validation, maintenance windows, and SLA management.
- Partner with the Global Head of Support to align priorities, flag risks early, and ensure the India team is well-integrated into the broader global support organization.
- Who You Are and What You’ve Done:
- A proven people manager with 7 or more years in technical support or customer engineering in a SaaS environment, including at least 2 years managing a team of engineers.
- You lead by example, stay technically engaged, and are not comfortable sitting above the work when your team needs help.
- Technically curious.
- You want to understand how things work at a system level, not just the layer directly in front of you, and you bring that same curiosity to your team.
- A strong communicator and action-oriented.
- You find solutions, move through ambiguity, and keep things moving even when the path forward is not obvious.
- Customer-focused.
- You treat customer escalations with urgency and bring the same energy to building long-term trust as you do to solving immediate problems.
- Experienced with Salesforce and JIRA for case management, escalation tracking, and team operations.
- Comfortable with scripting, SQL, or API-based debugging at a working level.
- Enough to earn technical credibility with your team and contribute meaningfully during complex
- investigations.
- Familiar with AI tools and how to use them to improve how a team works, investigates,and delivers.
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- What Would Make You Stand Out:
- Experience with streaming video Analytics, App analytics, or AI-powered SaaS products where the technical bar for support is high.
- You have introduced AI tools or automation to a support team in a way that genuinely changed how people work day to day.
- Experience working in a distributed organization with leadership in a different time zone, and a track record of staying aligned without needing constant direction.
Collected experience requirement
2 years