Customer Support Team Lead

UpSlide; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

UpSlide is seeking a dynamic Support Team Lead based in Paris to manage our global Support Engineers, partnering with Product, Engineering and Customer Success to deliver outstanding service. You’ll own day-to-day performance, develop the team, optimize processes, and coordinate escalations while fostering a customer-centric culture across Microsoft 365 integrations and Zendesk workflows.

Fluency in French and English is essential; you will mentor a diverse team across locations and align with

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a customer-facing team in a SaaS environment.
• Strong coaching, feedback, and performance management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English and French.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional projects and escalations.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage and develop a team of Support Engineers.
• Own daily service delivery, escalations, and QA of tickets.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, and Sales.
• Define and implement support processes and workflows.
• Coach team members and drive performance reviews and development plans.
• Balance operational needs with strategic initiatives for customer success.

Skills

People management

Coaching

Customer empathy

Communication

English & French fluency

Operational leadership

Data-driven

Education

B2B SaaS experience

Tools

Zendesk

Microsoft 365

Office</w>365 add-ins

Job description

UpSlide is the document production layer for financial services. We orchestrate LLMs, machine learning, and workflow agents within Microsoft 365 to deliver reliable, quality outputs in the most efficient and cost-effective way. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, with 14+ years supporting financial services teams, we bring together expertise from the tech, finance, and design fields to help clients like KPMG, BNP Paribas, Rothschild & Co. boost productivity while improving brand consistency across their corporate documents.

We are a certified B Corporation, upholding the belief that businesses should have a positive impact on society.

Our values

Our values guide our approach to work and are at the heart of our recruitment process. To join our team, we look for individuals who value:

• Excellence: We think that every detail counts, and we place great importance on the quality of our deliverables.
• Trust: We are passionate, committed, and free to act with autonomy.
• Happiness at work: We enjoy looking on the bright side and we share our enthusiasm with our colleagues and clients.

The team

You will join our Support team as the direct manager of a group of Support Engineers. While the function operates globally, with part of the team in Paris and the rest in New York, this specific role is based in Paris.

You will report to Matthieu, Global Head of Scale CS, and your manager, who will support you in achieving your goals. You will also partner closely with Support Operations, Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success, Sales, and IT. You will also be part of the global Go-To-Market community across our international offices.

Here is what the Go-To-Market organization looks like at UpSlide:

• Account Executives: Prospect, acquire new business acquisition and expand existing accounts
• Consultants: Lead implementation projects, deliver client training, and ensure successful deployment
• Customer Success Managers: Own a portfolio of accounts end-to-end, driving retention, renewal signing, expansion within existing entities, value realization, and long-term account growth
• Support Engineers: Resolve day-to-day technical questions and issues, and ensure a smooth customer experience

Your responsibilities

As Support Team Lead, you will be the direct manager of our Support Engineers and accountable for the team's day-to-day performance, development, and service delivery. You will translate our Support strategy into effective routines, consistent execution, and an excellent customer experience.

This is a player-coach role. Your primary focus is managing and developing the team, but you'll stay close to operations, supporting complex investigations, reviewing ticket quality, and coordinating escalations when needed. The Head of Support defines the strategy and long-term evolution of the function. You make sure the team delivers on it every day.

We're looking for someone who is a natural people developer: accountable, structured, thorough, calm under pressure, data-informed, proactive, and collaborative. We strongly believe in growing our people internally, and this role is also a strong stepping stone toward broader Support and Customer Success leadership for those who want to keep growing.

People Management & Team Development

Directly manage, coach, and develop the Support Engineers to help them perform at their best and grow in their careers:

• Hold regular one-to-ones, set clear expectations, and provide frequent, actionable feedback
• Monitor individual performance, address issues when needed, and lead performance reviews and development plans
• Identify skills gaps and organize coaching, training, and knowledge-sharing
• Own onboarding and ramp-up for new team members, and participate in hiring
• Foster a culture of customer empathy, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Daily Service Delivery & Escalation Management

Own the daily delivery of Support and act as the first point of management escalation for complex, urgent, or sensitive cases:

• Monitor ticket queues, backlog, workload, and service levels, and ensure tickets are correctly prioritized and followed through
• Organize team coverage (absences, shifts, peak periods) and step in when service delivery is at risk
• Review and coordinate escalated tickets, defining next steps and involving the right internal stakeholders (Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Success)
• Coordinate customer communication on significant cases, and elevate major risks or executive concerns to the Head of Support

Quality, Process, & Performance

Maintain high standards of technical quality, and bring a critical, structured eye to how Support operates today, proposing and driving changes rather than simply preserving the status quo:

• Identify where tickets could be resolved faster and more efficiently in writing, and reduce the number of cases that unnecessarily escalates into calls, especially multi-stakeholder ones, to protect everyone's time and improve the ROI of customer interactions
• Review ticket quality using QA tools and scorecards, and coach the team based on the results
• Ensure investigations are structured, well-documented, and clearly communicated to customers
• Monitor operational and quality indicators (backlog, response/resolution time, CSAT, quality scores) to identify risks and drive corrective action
• Document, monitor adoption of, and continuously improve Support workflows, in partnership with Support Operations

Cross-functional Collaboration

Make sure Support works effectively with the rest of the business.

• Coordinate with Product and Engineering on customer investigations and product issues
• Collaborate with Professional Services, Customer Success, and Sales on customer situations requiring Support involvement, and continuously refine which team owns which type of request across the client lifecycle
• Clarify responsibilities and handovers between Support and other teams, and represent the team's operational needs in cross-functional discussions

To work on these tasks, you will mainly use the following tools: Zendesk (or an equivalent ticketing platform), our data stack tools, Microsoft Office, UpSlide, and internal knowledge-base tools (or local equivalents).

Your goals

You will be assessed on:

• Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
• Time to Resolution (TTR)
• Ticket-to-active-user ratio
• Team engagement and development

You are a great fit if you have:

• Proven experience managing or leading a customer-facing team, ideally in B2B SaaS, technical support, or a similar operational environment
• Strong coaching and people-development skills, including the ability to give clear, constructive, and sometimes difficult feedback
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities across a team
• Experience using service or operational metrics to identify issues and improve performance
• Strong customer communication and escalation-management skills
• Ability to understand technical issues and guide structured investigations, without needing to personally own every ticket
• Fluent in French & English mandatory
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Product, Engineering, and other customer-facing teams
• A pragmatic, accountable approach to problem-solving, with a bias for ownership over escalation

We’d love it if you have:

• Experience directly managing a team of five or more people
• Experience supporting Enterprise customers
• Experience with Microsoft 365, Office add-ins, deployment, or IT environments
• Familiarity with Zendesk or a similar ticketing platform
• Experience with quality and knowledge management, or Support Operations
• Experience supporting distributed or international teams
• Familiarity with automation, AI-assisted Support, or self-service strategies

If you don’t tick all the boxes but you think you’d be a great fit, please apply and tell us why.

Recruitment process

1. Screening call with a Talent Acquisition Specialist: A conversation to walk through your experience, motivation, and fit for the role.

2. Interview with your future manager or their peer: A deeper dive into your management experience in Support.

3. Case study and a team-meet: A live exercise reflecting real challenges of the role, followed by a conversation with members of the wider team.