Support and Services Operations Manager
About Us
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen. Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble. Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!Summary
As the Support and Services Operations Manager, you’ll be responsible for building scalable processes, systems, and insights that empower our Support organization to deliver exceptional experiences for customers using Temporal Cloud. You’ll play a key role in driving operational excellence as we migrate from Zendesk to Pylon, ensuring the new platform supports a seamless and data-rich customer experience.
This role sits at the intersection of Support, RevOps, and Product, and will focus on optimizing workflows, automating reporting, and integrating customer health data into our broader GTM systems.
What You’ll Do
- Design and document scalable support processes across ticket routing, SLAs, escalation paths, and customer feedback loops.
- Develop analytics and dashboards to measure customer health, case volume trends, response times, activation, and consumption-impacting support issues.
- Partner with our GTM Systems team to integrate Pylon data with Salesforce, Slack, and other GTM systems to provide unified visibility into customer interactions and consumption blockers.
- Partner with Product and Data Analytics to identify patterns in support requests that signal opportunities for product improvements or proactive enablement.
- Optimize support capacity planning by analyzing ticket drivers, volumes, and patterns to forecast staffing needs.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance and RevOps to link support performance to retention, expansion, and consumption growth.
- Establish quality assurance and feedback programs to ensure consistency and continuous improvement across support interactions.
- Act as the internal SME for support tools and automations, managing configurations, user permissions, and change requests.
- As Temporal scales, you’ll help shape the systems and insights that power our post-sales experience, partnering with Technical Services leadership (Support, Professional Services, and possible new roles) to ensure our operations fuel both customer success and revenue growth.
- Build utilization, margin, and attach-rate models across Support, Services, and TAM.
- Support incentive model design and exec-level reporting for post-sales performance.
- Maintain accurate customer and partner records in Salesforce and integrated tools, ensuring data integrity for reporting and decision-making.
- Document processes and maintain clear SOPs for both functions.
- Manage operational workflows for high-tier customer benefits such as managed Slack channels and other entitlements.
- Monitor and track support SLAs, case resolution, and customer satisfaction metrics.
What You’ll Need
- Able to manage structured processes across multiple functions without losing accuracy or timeliness.
- Experience with Salesforce and customer support platforms (Zendesk, Pylon)
- Comfortable creating and interpreting reports to track performance and identify improvement areas.
- Able to work with technical, operational, and relationship-focused stakeholders
- Capable of managing priorities across different teams while maintaining service quality.
- High accuracy in data entry, entitlement tracking, and process documentation.
- High data fluency with hands-on experience in SQL and BigQuery to analyze performance, build dashboards, and ensure data accuracy across systems.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $176,000-$220,000
- This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
Additional Perks- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
