Director, Support (Bengaluru)

GitLab; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Equity Compensation

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Director, Support Engineering for the Bengaluru Center of Support. You will design and scale the regional hub, partner with Talent Acquisition, and establish operating standards to deliver enterprise‑grade technical support across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas.

This remote‑friendly role is based in Bengaluru, India, reporting to the VP of Support Engineering. You will own headcount growth, performance management, and global strategy alignment while driving customer

Qualifications

• Experience leading a manager-of-managers structure in a technical support environment.

Responsibilities

• Design Bengaluru hub organizational structure and headcount strategy.
• Establish management infrastructure, rhythms, escalation frameworks, and quality standards.
• Oversee hiring, career paths, and culture in partnership with Talent Acquisition.
• Develop managers and engineers with clear performance expectations and growth paths.
• Own service-level targets, customer satisfaction, and reporting against global KPIs.
• Implement local escalation workflows and cross-region handoffs for multi-region support.
• Guide use of AI toolchains and partner with other teams on tooling and automation.
• Collaborate with regional managers, Product, Engineering, and VP to align global strategy.

Skills

People management

Global delivery

Enterprise software

AI tooling

Stakeholder communication

Hiring & onboarding

Kubernetes / cloud-native

GitLab experience

Tools

Zendesk

Salesforce

Decagon

GitLab (experience as user/admin/customer)

Job description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

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An overview of this role

As Director, Support Engineering for our Bengaluru Center of Support, you'll build and manage GitLab's India-based regional support hub as a strategic peer to our Americas and Europe, Middle East, and Africa hubs. Reporting to the Vice President of Support Engineering, you'll own the hub's organizational design, headcount growth, management infrastructure, and operating standards while building a healthy team that delivers enterprise‑grade technical support across Asia‑Pacific and Europe, Middle East, and Africa time zones. This remote‑friendly role is based in Bengaluru, India.

What you’ll do

• Design and build the Bengaluru hub's organizational structure, including specialist and management roles, customer and product segmentation, and shift coverage models.
• Establish the management infrastructure, operating rhythms, escalation frameworks, and quality standards needed to support sustainable headcount growth.
• Manage hiring and retention in partnership with Talent Acquisition, including role profiles, interview panels, offer selections, career paths, internal mobility, recognition, and team culture.
• Develop managers and support engineers, set clear performance expectations, provide transparent feedback, and create pathways into global Support Engineering management roles.
• Own performance against service‑level targets, customer satisfaction, ticket quality, resolution metrics, and transparent reporting against global key performance indicators.
• Implement local escalation workflows, Request for Help integration, and shift handoff protocols across the Asia‑Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and Americas support hubs.
• Guide the hub's use of GitLab's artificial intelligence toolchain and partner with Support Operations and Strategy on tooling, analytics, and process automation.
• Work with regional Support Engineering managers, Product, Engineering, and the Vice President of Support Engineering on global strategy, customer insights, operating plans, headcount models, and the Support Engineering roadmap.

What you’ll bring

• Experience managing technical support engineering or a closely related customer‑facing technical function, including through a manager‑of‑managers structure.
• A record of building or significantly scaling a support organization, including organizational design, hiring infrastructure, onboarding, and team culture.
• Experience establishing a global delivery hub or Center of Support and coordinating service delivery across regions and time zones.
• Deep knowledge of supporting enterprise software as a service, including managing service‑level obligations, tiered support models, escalation frameworks, and operational metrics.
• Experience working in a distributed environment that combines asynchronous and synchronous collaboration, with clear written and verbal communication.
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted support tooling and experience introducing new tools or automation at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to retain and develop technical team members in a dynamic hiring market.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps platforms, continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling, Kubernetes, or cloud‑native infrastructure, along with experience using support platforms such as Zendesk, Salesforce, Decagon, or equivalent tools. Experience with GitLab as a user, administrator, or customer is helpful.

About The Team

The GitLab Support Engineering team is distributed across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and Asia‑Pacific. Support engineers and managers work on tickets and help GitLab's customers. We also examine code and logs to find root causes. We solve complex problems collectively, participate in pairing sessions and one‑on‑ones, and stay in communication across time zones through deliberate asynchronous work habits. Support is where customers meet GitLab, and we take that seriously.

How GitLab Supports Full‑Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well‑being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

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