Who are we?
Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content platform that replaces rigid legacy content management systems so companies like PUMA, Spotify, Figma, Riot Games, and Skims can create amazing digital experiences for their customers.One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.Backed by Netlify, Vercel, the founders of Twitter and Medium, Heroku’s ex-CEO, and leading VCs like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, and Lead Edge Capital, Sanity is at the epicenter of the modern digital product development stack.You can only build a great company with a great culture. Read about our values and join us in building a diverse and inclusive team.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced support engineer that loves helping people through their technical hurdles. Our fast-growing enterprise customer base and developer community consist of a wide range of people solving different problems with various frameworks and technologies. To us, it’s important to foster an inclusive and friendly environment and a space where people of different experience levels feel comfortable asking for help. You will have an important presence, interacting with developers from across the world.As our user base grows larger and, with it, the volume of questions and feedback, we also believe it’s important to build tooling, infrastructure and processes to help us incentivize community and customer self-reliance, make it easier to follow up conversations and to pull useful signals out from the activity.
What you will be doing
Lead, develop, and hire to our Support team in North America.
Partner with Support leadership to handle escalations, conduct operational reviews, and balance our resources.
Develop and mature our support efforts by implementing our target operating model.
Manage and nurture a tight interface with Customer Solutions, Product, and Engineering ensuring a continuous data-driven feedback loop.
Work to improve and develop internal processes, standards, and tooling.
Act as a player/coach working closely with our Enterprise customers to resolve technical issues and answer questions.
Troubleshoot bugs, create reusable code snippets, and produce minimal reproducible examples of issues.
Develop standard solutions, author self-serve resources, and improve documentation where needed.
Be the customer’s voice and use people's feedback to help improve our product.
Build and maintain support infrastructure, tooling, and workflows.
Liaise between customers and internal teams during incidents and escalations.
Continuously research best practices and learn existing and upcoming features of Sanity's content platform.
This may be you
5+ years of industry experience in a technical support capacity with 2+ years of direct front line management experience (hiring, training and retaining top talent).
Exceptional communication and organizational skills.
Deep knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, and front-end frameworks like Next.js.
Versed about existing trends in code development (i.e. frameworks, technology landscape, infrastructure)
Experience debugging complex technical issues with other developers and end-users.
Passion for helping others be successful and fulfil their potential.
Demonstrated capacity to quickly learn new concepts and technologies.
Self-starter who takes initiative and is energized when there is no obvious solution.
Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Have an untraditional background? Do apply anyway!
What we can offer
A highly skilled, inspiring, and supportive team where long-term personal growth is encouraged and supported.
Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment.
A very global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers.
Remote in North America.
Comprehensive health plans and perks.
A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs.
Competitive salary and stock options program.
Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
