Manager, Technical Support

About The Role

The Technical Support Manager leads a team of Support Engineers responsible for resolving customer issues, ensuring platform stability, and driving continuous improvement across Accelas support operations. This role combines operational leadership, technical expertise, and coaching to maintain exceptional service levels and customer satisfaction. The manager works cross?functionally with Product, Engineering, Cloud Operations, and Customer Success to drive timely defect resolution, scalable processes, and feedback loops that improve the customer and product experience.

Specific Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Support Engineers, fostering accountability, growth, and technical excellence.
• Manage day?to?day support operations, ensuring SLA compliance, workload balance, and effective prioritization of critical cases.
• Partner with Engineering and Product teams to elevate complex product defects and systemic issues.
• Review case quality, documentation, and testing / replication accuracy to maintain consistency and continuous improvement.
• Implement and refine key processes around triage, replication, swarm sessions, and root cause analysis.
• Track and analyze performance metrics (CSAT, FRT, TTR, backlog aging) to drive operational decisions and identify trends.
• Facilitate regular coaching sessions and career development plans for team members.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, transparency, and proactive communication across support tiers and departments.
• Contribute to knowledge management by encouraging documentation and reusability of solutions.
• Serve as an escalation point for high?impact customer issues and executive?level inquiries.

Required Qualifications

Desired Qualifications

CORE COMPETENCIES

About Accela

For nearly 20 years, Accela has been an industry leader in designing and delivering government software to improve efficiency, increase citizen engagement, and enable the development of thriving communities. Accelas cloud?based platform accelerates growth, efficiency, and transparency for local governments of all sizes, providing a robust suite of SaaS solutions for planning, building, service request management, and more.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

Accela believes in developing and nurturing a workplace community where differences are celebrated and everyone feels a sense of psychological safety and belonging. We commit to evolving our practices, policies, and philosophies to enable diversity to thrive and support equity in opportunity for everyone.

Compensation And Well?being

The annual base salary range for this full?time position is $110,000?$120,000 (less applicable taxes). The position is eligible for an annual bonus target and a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible time off, medical, dental, vision, family planning, 401(k) with company match, health savings account, and additional well?being benefits.

Accela is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Affirmative Action Employer and will respond to requests for job accommodations.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or based on disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation.

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