VP of Technical Services

GTMnow; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 225,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible vacation and mental health days

Annual personal development stipends

401k plan participation

Latest Apple products for work

Employee Resource Groups for DEI support

Job summary

A leading software company is seeking a Vice President of Technical Services located near Austin, TX. This role involves unifying Professional Services, Technical Support, and Customer Education to enhance customer enablement with a focus on AI-powered solutions. Ideal candidates will have demonstrated innovation in SaaS post-sales functions, strong leadership in a high-growth environment, and a commitment to customer success.

Qualifications

• Prior VP-level experience in high-growth SaaS organizations with a technical product.
• Demonstrated history of innovative transformational change in customer-facing teams.
• Comfort with ambiguity and strong advocacy skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale the next generation of technical service delivery.
• Overhaul the education program to emphasize contextual product guidance.
• Establish and monitor KPIs aligned to digital adoption and customer value realization.

Skills

Visionary leadership

Change orchestration

Customer-obsessed systems thinking

Innovation and creative problem-solving

Education

VP-level experience in post-sales functions

Job description

CaptivateIQ is transforming the way companies plan, manage, and optimize sales performance. We started by revolutionizing incentive compensation management, and now we're expanding our platform to solve broader sales planning challenges. Recognized by industry analysts like Forrester and G2 and backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia, ICONIQ, Accel, and Sapphire Ventures, we empower high-growth companies like Netflix, Figma, and Stripe with the flexibility and insights needed to drive revenue performance.

Join a talented, fast-growing team committed to solving some of the most complex and impactful problems in sales performance management.

About the Role

CaptivateIQ is seeking a Vice President of Technical Services to unify and lead Professional Services, Technical Support, and Customer Education under one strategy. This newly architected role, reporting to the SVP of Customer Experience, is central to our mission of building a truly self‑service, AI‑powered enterprise platform - and to revolutionizing how we deliver customer enablement, onboarding, and product guidance at scale.

This leader will design and scale the next generation of technical service delivery: reducing support dependency, accelerating time‑to‑value, and enabling customers to self‑solve with confidence, while maintaining world‑class enterprise delivery.

Job Location

The candidate selected for this opportunity must reside near one of the following locations:

Hybrid (in‑office 3 days per week)

• Austin, TX
• Menlo Park, CA

Strategy & Innovation Responsibilities

• Innovation: Develop and champion a bold, “next-level” vision for Technical Services that accelerates CaptivateIQ’s shift toward a fully self‑service, product‑led customer journey.
• Strategy: Craft and socialize a multi‑year roadmap spanning Customer Education, Professional Services, and Technical Support, leveraging digital‑first, AI‑powered experiences to drive scale.
• Launch self‑service experiences: customer portals, in‑product guidance, AI‑assisted support, and scalable implementation templates.

Transformation of Customer Education, Support, and Professional Services Responsibilities

• Overhaul our education program to prioritize embedded, contextual product guidance over static content - replace traditional training models with just‑in‑time, in‑app learning and personalized content delivery.
• Expand self‑service capabilities to reduce 1:1 support volume - e.g., searchable knowledge bases, diagnostic tooling, and AI‑assisted troubleshooting.
• Define the future of Professional Services by moving beyond standard implementation delivery to flexible, templatized, and AI‑augmented frameworks.
• Continuously uplevel team members to be strategic and consultative customer partners, while automating and productizing lower‑level transactional tasks.

Operational Excellence & Customer Impact Responsibilities

• Ensure rigor and leadership‑level visibility of project health and status, risks, pipeline and resourcing visibility.
• Regularly engage with customers, beyond escalation management, to form long‑term relationships with key stakeholders, understand their perspectives, and serve as an internal voice of the customer.
• Surface recurring product gaps and usage friction through frontline insights and partner with Product & Eng to influence roadmap priorities.
• Establish, monitor, and continuously evolve KPIs aligned to digital adoption, reduced ticket volume, faster implementation times, improved CSAT, and tangible customer value realization.
• Instill a culture of curiosity, ownership, and customer obsession across all Technical Services teams - foster the culture of experimentation and innovation.

Requirements

• Prior VP‑level experience in post‑sales functions (Professional Services, Customer Education, Technical Support, or analogous technical/strategy roles), Product leadership, or Strategy Roles within high‑growth SaaS organizations with a technical product.
• Demonstrated history of innovation, creative problem‑solving, or executing transformational change, not just incremental improvement, within customer‑facing teams or digital product functions.
• Comfort with ambiguity and “blank sheet” problem solving; entrepreneurial drive; strong internal pitch/advocacy skills.
• Visionary leadership: able to articulate and drive a radical new model for customer enablement and serve as a north star for the team and company.
• Change orchestration: proven ability to transform teams and mindsets, a champion for experimentation, calculated risk‑taking, and celebrating fast learning cycles.
• Customer‑obsessed systems thinking: always grounding decisions in the realities of diverse customer personas and their end‑to‑end experience.
• Deep operational strength with an innovative, systems‑thinking mindset.

Nice to Have

• Experience in digital transformation, product management, design thinking facilitation, or leading AI‑ or automation‑forward initiatives.

Benefits

• (US‑ONLY) 100% of medical, dental, and vision covered including 75% for dependents
• Flexible vacation days and quarterly mental health days so you can recharge
• Enjoy a one‑time expense on your 1‑year work anniversary (to use for travel, home furnishings, fancy meal)
• Annual stipends for professional development and caretaking
• (US‑ONLY) 401k plan to participate in and save towards the future
• Newest Apple products to help you do your best work
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to support and celebrate the shared identities and life experiences of communities within CaptivateIQ. ERGs directly support our company‑wide DEI goals as a space for developing and retaining diverse talent

Notice for Prospective Candidates

• Only emails from @captivateiq.com should be trusted.

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$225,000 - $300,000 a year

The OTE range in USD represents the minimum and maximum for this position across North America. The OTE offered for this position will depend on numerous factors, including individual proficiency, anticipated performance, and the location of the selected candidate. Our OTE is just one component of CaptivateIQ's competitive total rewards package.

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