Director, Technical Support
About the role
About Us
Ada is an AI customer service company whose mission is to make customer service extraordinary for everyone. We're driven to raise a new standard of quality customer service at scale, enabling enterprise companies to deliver experiences that people love–instant, proactive, personalized, and effortless.
Ada is an AI transformation platform and partner—combining strategic expertise with powerful AI agent management technology to accelerate businesses’ AI maturity to keep them ahead of the curve. With Ada, 83% of customer conversations—and counting—are effortlessly resolved through automation, giving teams more time back, companies more resources to focus on growth, and customers more life to focus on what matters most to them.
Established in 2016, Ada is a Canadian company that has powered over 5.5 billion interactions for leading brands like Square, YETI, IPSY, and Monday.com, saving millions of hours of human effort. Backed with over $250M in funding from tier-one investors including Accel, Bessemer, FirstMark, Spark, and Version One Ventures, Ada is a pioneer in the management and application of AI in customer service.
At Ada, we see growth as a reflection of each individual owner’s personal growth. That’s why our values are rooted in driving progress and continuous improvement. If you’re ambitious and eager to grow, Ada could be the place for you.
About the Role
We're seeking an experienced Director of Technical Support to lead our global 24/7 two-tiered support organization of Technical Support Advisors (Tier I) and Technical Support Engineers (Tier II). You'll own the full technical support function from SLA governance and escalation frameworks to tooling strategy and team development, while serving as a strategic partner to Engineering, Product, and Customer Solutions.
This is an opportunity for you to shape a support organization that doesn't just react to customer issues, but proactively surfaces product intelligence, drives quality improvements, and becomes a competitive differentiator for Ada in the enterprise market. Critically, you will be expected to leverage Ada's own AI platform, Claude and MCP integrations to automate workflows, improve team productivity, and set a new standard for AI-native support operations.
Outcomes
- Champion Ada's own platform for customer support automation while owning the end-to-end technical support KPI framework, including SLA design, enforcement, and continuous optimization across all tiers, along with metrics such as CSAT, escalation rates, deflection rates, and SLA adherence.
- Build and maintain an escalation framework that bridges Tier I and Tier II support and connects cleanly to Engineering and Product, serving as the executive escalation point for high-severity, high-impact client issues.
- Build AI-powered workflows and set measurable AI adoption targets for the team; running regular assessments and driving continuous improvement in how AI is embedded into daily support workflows, with defined success metrics including AI-assisted ticket resolution rate, deflection rate improvement, and time-to-resolution benchmarks.
- Act as the strategic connector between Technical Support, Engineering, Product, and Customer Solutions, translating raw client feedback into structured, and actionable bug reports.
- Represent technical support at the leadership level, contributing to product strategy and roadmap prioritization as both a practitioner and a thought leader.
- Instill rigor and discipline in support operations, ensuring processes are documented, repeatable, and scalable across global teams.