Job description
About Stellic
At Stellic, we empower universities to transform the student experience, helping millions of students navigate their academic journeys with clarity and confidence. As a fast-growing Series A/B startup, we are scaling our team to serve more institutions worldwide—while staying deeply committed to our mission, values, and high-performance culture.
Today, we are partnered with universities across 7 countries — including top institutions like Cornell, Columbia University, and Ohio State University — to empower 1M+ students to take control of their academic journey with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Our platform gives students the tools they need to plan ahead, stay on track, and succeed, from day one through graduation
About the Role:
Stellic is seeking an exceptional Customer Support Team Lead who combines technical expertise with strategic leadership to elevate our customer support experience. In this role, you’ll lead a team of Technical Support Analysts while driving process improvements, maintaining key performance metrics, and ensuring customer feedback shapes our product evolution.
Some of the things you’ll own and drive:
Team Leadership & Performance
- Drive and maintain critical support KPIs including ticket backlog, CSAT, SLAs, and resolution times
- Recruit, onboard, and develop Technical Support Analysts, conducting performance reviews and providing growth opportunities
- Forecast staffing needs based on customer deployment and peak usage period projections
Technical Expertise & Development
- Enhance the team’s technical abilities through ongoing training and ticket deep dives
- Support complex technical troubleshooting, including data validation and integration related issues
- Champion continuous improvement in resolution speed, quality, and Stellic tone of voice
Operations & Tools Management
- Oversee support tooling operations and maintenance
- Lead implementation of ticketing processes to improve efficiency and customer experience
- Develop scalable support and escalation processes that maintain quality while accommodating growth
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and other teams to transform customer feedback into product improvements, training, and implementation improvements
- Coordinate support readiness for major feature releases including QA, documentation, and training
- Analyze support ticket data to identify common issues and develop upstream solutions
Strategic Initiatives
- Establish and oversee global support operations
- Stay current with support industry trends
- Identify new and innovative AI-driven support tools
- Implement best practices to continually elevate the support experience
You’d be a great fit for this role if you have the following skills and experiences:
- 3+ years leading technical support teams in an enterprise SaaS environment
- Strong technical background and troubleshooting expertise
- Proven track record scaling high-performing support teams
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Detail-oriented with unwavering commitment to quality
- Excellent customer relationship management abilities
- Experience implementing support tools is highly valued
Why Join?
- Be part of a customer-centric team that is addressing the core issues in higher education via an expandable platform that is overwhelming loved by students and valued by administrators
- The opportunity to join at the ground level of a promising and developing organization, and build/lead a team critically responsible for its growth
- Work and learn from some of the most prominent thought leaders in higher education and SaaS
- Be part of a culture where ownership, new ideas, and creativity is celebrated
- Generous stock options in a Series A stage startup
- Flexible, outcome-based culture
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401K and commuter benefits
- Annual international retreats in some of the most beautiful cities & towns
Compensation: $120,000 - $165,000 base salary, plus equity
Stellic is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Our company values diversity and believes diverse teams make innovation possible. We encourage all qualified applicants from any race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or other characteristics to apply.
