Director of Customer Support

Videndum plc; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

PTO (Paid Time Off)

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Growth and leadership development

Job summary

Videndum in Cary, North Carolina seeks a Director of Customer Support to lead a global, hybrid support organization across SmallHD, Teradek, and Wooden Camera. You will shape service standards, guide a high-performing team, and partner with Engineering and Product to improve outcomes for broadcasters and creators.

The role emphasizes accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement across regions and brands, ensuring fast, accurate, and consistent support for customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred depending on candidate.
• Minimum of 8–10 years in technical or customer support.
• 5+ years in a leadership role with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead global technical support organization across brands, regions, and time zones.
• Define support structures, escalation paths, staffing models and coverage.
• Recruit, coach, and retain high-performing leaders and team members.
• Drive accountability, technical excellence, and customer-first problem solving.
• Establish SLAs, KPIs, and processes for consistent customer experience.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Operations, and Sales.

Skills

Technical hardware support

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analytics

Customer escalation management

Communication

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA

Job description

Director of Customer Support

Location: Cary, North Carolina
Company: Videndum
Department: Customer Support / Sales
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Reports To: VP of Sales

Join Videndum – Lead the Customer Support Experience Behind World-Class Creative Technology

Videndum is an international group serving customers across the image capture and content creation market. We manufacture and distribute technically advanced products that give broadcasters, film studios, video production companies, and independent content creators confidence in the equipment they rely on to capture and share world-class content.

Our people are key to our future and are our number one priority. They make the difference not only through what they do, but how they do it.

We are seeking an experienced Director of Customer Support to lead the global technical support experience across Videndum brands, including SmallHD, Teradek, and Wooden Camera.

This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for setting the standards for how customers receive technical support, developing and leading a high-performing global team, and ensuring consistent service quality across regions and brands.

Success in this role means customers receive accurate technical help quickly, complex issues are escalated effectively, recurring problems are addressed at the root cause, and support performance consistently meets a high global standard.

What You’ll Do

Global Support Leadership

• Lead and develop the global technical support organization across multiple brands, regions, and time zones.

• Establish clear support structures, escalation paths, staffing models, and coverage expectations.

• Recruit, develop, coach, and retain high-performing technical support leaders and team members.

• Build a culture of accountability, coaching, technical excellence, and customer-first problem solving.

• Ensure support teams maintain consistent standards regardless of location, brand, or customer segment.

• Stay close enough to day-to-day support activity to understand customer pain points, operational challenges, and opportunities for improvement.

Support Standards & Customer Experience

• Define and maintain support-level targets for response time, resolution time, escalation quality, and overall customer experience.

• Hold teams accountable to service expectations without compromising the quality or technical accuracy of the support provided.

• Establish consistent processes and standards for handling technical issues, customer escalations, and complex product problems.

• Ensure customers receive clear, accurate, and timely communication throughout the support process.

• Partner with internal teams to improve the overall post-sale customer experience across Videndum brands.

Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Establish and maintain standard work across customer support processes.

• Drive continuous improvement across support operations, workflows, tools, and team practices.

• Use structured root-cause analysis to identify and address recurring customer and product issues.

• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to communicate field trends, recurring failures, and customer feedback.

• Identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary work, improve productivity, and streamline support processes.

• Help ensure lessons learned from customer issues are translated into product, process, and documentation improvements.

Performance Management & Analytics

• Establish, track, and report key customer support metrics, including:

  • Customer satisfaction

  • First-contact resolution

  • Initial response time

  • Resolution time

  • Escalation quality

  • Support backlog

  • Team productivity and capacity

• Use data and trends to identify performance gaps and prioritize operational improvements and investments.

• Develop regular reporting that provides leadership with clear visibility into customer support performance.

• Translate customer support metrics into actionable business recommendations.

Workforce Planning & Team Management

• Plan staffing and capacity based on support demand across brands, regions, and time zones.

• Balance customer coverage, productivity, service quality, and cost when making staffing decisions.

• Manage scheduling and resource allocation to maintain effective customer support coverage.

• Oversee timekeeping and labor-compliance requirements for supervised teams in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.

• Establish clear expectations for attendance, conduct, accountability, productivity, and performance.

• Coach and develop managers and individual contributors across varying levels of experience.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, Operations, Sales, and other business functions to improve customer outcomes.

• Serve as the voice of the customer by identifying common technical issues and communicating trends to Product and Engineering teams.

• Develop effective escalation processes for complex or high-impact technical issues.

• Work with Engineering and Product teams to ensure technical support teams have the information and tools needed to successfully support new products.

• Provide practical customer-support input into product development, launches, and lifecycle decisions.

• Collaborate with business leaders to align customer support priorities with broader organizational goals.

What We’re Looking For

Required Skills & Competencies

• Strong hands-on understanding of technical hardware support.

• Ability to engage credibly and effectively with both engineers and customers.

• Proven experience establishing and maintaining customer support service standards across a distributed organization.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical support operations across multiple teams, time zones, or countries.

• Strong people‑leadership and coaching skills, including experience developing other managers.

• Ability to build accountability while maintaining a positive and customer‑focused team culture.

• Strong analytical skills and ability to use data to identify problems, trends, and opportunities.

• Strategic mindset combined with the ability to translate business objectives into practical operational execution.

• Strong understanding of customer escalation management and technical problem‑solving processes.

• Ability to balance customer experience, team productivity, operational efficiency, and cost.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across technical and commercial teams.

• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global environment.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required.

• MBA preferred.

• Minimum of 8–10 years of experience in technical support or customer support.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a leadership role.

• Demonstrated experience managing and developing teams, including other managers.

• Experience supporting distributed or global teams across multiple time zones.

• Experience in professional video, broadcast, cinema, pro‑AV, or a comparable professional hardware category strongly preferred.

Nice to Have

• Experience with LEAN, Six Sigma, or other structured continuous‑improvement methodologies.

• Experience implementing:

  • Standard work

  • Root‑cause analysis

  • Waste reduction

  • Process optimization

  • Continuous‑improvement programs

• Experience leading customer support operations for technically complex hardware products.

• Experience supporting professional customers who depend on equipment in time‑sensitive or mission‑critical environments.

• Familiarity with SmallHD, Teradek, Wooden Camera, or related professional media technologies.

Work Environment & Location

This is a full-time, hybrid position based in Cary, North Carolina.

The role requires close collaboration with global customer support teams and business partners and may involve working across multiple time zones.

Because this is a hands‑on leadership position, the Director of Customer Support will remain actively engaged with support operations, team performance, escalations, and cross‑functional technical discussions.

Why Videndum?

At Videndum, you’ll have the opportunity to lead the technical support experience for premium brands trusted by filmmakers, broadcasters, production professionals, and content creators around the world.

You’ll play an important role in shaping how customers experience our products after the sale while building a global support organization focused on technical excellence, responsiveness, accountability, and continuous improvement.

We value:

• Our People – Our people are our number one priority and are central to our success.

• Customer Focus – Ensuring customers receive the technical expertise and support they need to succeed.

• Exceptional Performance – Maintaining high standards of quality, responsiveness, and reliability.

• Innovation & Continuous Improvement – Using customer feedback and data to improve our products and processes.

• Collaboration – Working across Support, Engineering, Product, Sales, and Operations to solve problems effectively.

• Transparency, Integrity & Respect – Building trusted relationships with customers and colleagues.

• Accountability – Taking ownership of results and continually raising the standard of performance.

Benefits

• Paid holidays

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) with company match

• Collaborative and innovative work environment

• Opportunities for professional growth and leadership development

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed in this position. Responsibilities and requirements may change based on business needs.