Instrumentl
SaaS
CustomerSupport&OperationsTeamLead
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“Customer Support & Operations Team Lead at Instrumentl. Skills: Customer Support, Support Operations, AI, Team Management. Own the customer experience. Handle customer tickets”
What You'll Achieve.
Raise the bar for the team; Build a function that scales; Improve CSAT; Achieve world-class support
Industry & Context.
Resolve issues systematically; Debug customer issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years in customer support, support operations, or CX, ideally in SaaS, including time owning quality, not just answering tickets, Prior people management experience, AI-native instincts, A track record of building or improving support systems (routing, escalation, QA, reporting, or self-serve), Excellent customer judgment and writing, Player-coach energy, Comfort with ambiguity
Nice to Have
Experience with Intercom or Fin (Zendesk, Help Scout, Ada, Forethought, Gorgias and similar tools all transfer), Billing-heavy support experience: subscriptions, plan changes, refunds, payment failures, Experience overseeing operational data workflows like spreadsheet imports or QA on contractor-supported processes, Background supporting nonprofit, SMB, or prosumer SaaS customers, Remote startup experience
What You'll Do.
Own the customer experience
Handle customer tickets
Set standards for response quality
Improve first-response times
Scale support through AI
Own day-to-day Fin/AI support performance
Spot repetitive ticket categories
Build human-in-the-loop workflows
Use customer conversations as feedback loop
Build the support operating system
Sharpen billing workflows
Oversee operational data workflows
Create internal playbooks
Strengthen feedback loops
Partner on bug triage
Distinguish product bugs
Surface recurring customer pain points
Close the loop with customers
Manage one full-time support IC
Improve onboarding and training
Help decide team growth
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Customer Success; Partner with Finance; Partner with Product; Partner with Engineering; Partner with Support Engineer
Communication Scope
Excellent customer writing
Full Job Description
## Description Hello, we’re Instrumentl. 👋 Nonprofits do some of the most important work in the world, and most of them are still managing grants in spreadsheets. We’re fixing that. Instrumentl is a profitable, hypergrowth, YC-backed SaaS platform building the operating system for grant-funded organizations. More than 5,500 nonprofits use Instrumentl to discover, track, and win grant funding, from local community organizations to the San Diego Zoo and the University of Alaska. Collectively they’ve moved over $1 billion through our platform. We’re doubling year over year, customers love us (NPS 65+, Ellis PMF 60+), and we’re hiring people who want to build something that matters. ## About the role We’re hiring a Customer Support & Operations Team Lead, reporting to our VP of Customer Success, to own the systems and workflows behind a fast, accurate, and genuinely delightful support experience for the nonprofits and grant writers who run on Instrumentl. This is a hands-on player-coach role. You’ll handle tickets, billing questions, bug reports, escalations, and help-center updates yourself, while raising the bar for the team that handles them alongside you. You’ll guide one full-time support IC and a small bench of contractors, sharpen our AI support workflows in Fin, and decide where automation, self-serve, and human judgment each belong. We’re past 5,500 customers and growing fast. Until now, support has run on one person plus contractors. You get to define what comes next: how we use AI, how we staff, what “world-class” looks like, and how we build a function that scales without scaling headcount linearly. As volume grows, this role is built to grow with it, from Team Lead into a Manager seat owning the broader support org. You’ll partner with Customer Success, Finance, Product, Engineering, and our Support Engineer to make sure customer issues get understood, escalated cleanly, and resolved systematically. ## What you'll do Own the customer experience Handle cus
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