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Head of Technical Support

Lead the technical support team at Mintlify, ensuring enterprise customers receive top-tier service and support.

Location
San Francisco
Compensation
$185k–$225k/yr
Level
director
Type
full time · On-site

Posted by employer 1 month ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago

Last verified on the company career page 5 hours ago

What you'll build

  • Build the enterprise support motion
  • Define and run tiered SLAs
  • Own critical escalations end-to-end
  • Scale support with AI and automation
  • Raise the team's operational and technical bar

Must have

  • 4+ years in technical support or support engineering
  • 1+ years managing a team
  • Experience leading support at a high-growth developer-tools company
  • Strong fluency in docs and developer tooling
  • Hands-on debugging skills
  • Operational rigor

Nice to have

  • Experience with Mintlify or another docs platform
  • Built a support function from zero at an early-stage startup
  • Ability to write code (JavaScript/TypeScript)
  • Experience with enterprise requirements such as SSO/SAML
  • Familiarity with LLM-based products

Practical constraints

  • Work from San Francisco office 5 days a week

AI in the day-to-day

Deploy and tune AI agents that deflect and resolve common questions.

Requirements

Experience
4+ years

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Equity/Stock Options Commute Stipend Paid Time Off Free lunch and dinners Health Insurance

Joblaze summary

The Head of Technical Support at Mintlify is responsible for establishing and managing the support framework for enterprise customers, ensuring effective escalation paths and service level agreements. This role requires a strong technical background in developer tools and hands-on debugging skills, along with experience in leading support teams in high-growth environments. Ideal candidates will have a track record of implementing AI solutions in support operations and a clear understanding of customer needs in technical contexts. Mintlify's small but impactful team is focused on scaling support as the company grows.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze November 7, 2026. Last confirmed on Mintlify's careers page November 8, 2026.
  • This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Mintlify: San Francisco.
  • Salary band is in line with the typical range for Management roles (median ~$170,700).
  • Starts above 44% of 70 comparable director management roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $200,000 across 45 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
  • AI/ML appears in 18.9% of 570 comparable director management roles in United States; GitHub appears in 0.2% of 570 comparable director management roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Head of Technical Support role remote?
No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco.
What's the salary range?
Mintlify lists $185,000–$225,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 4 years of relevant experience for this Head of Technical Support role.
Where is the role based?
Mintlify is hiring for this position in San Francisco.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, APIs, CI/CD, DNS, Git, GitHub.
What seniority level is this role?
Mintlify targets director candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Head of Technical Support role at Mintlify.

From the original posting

Why Mintlify?

We're on a mission to empower builders.

  • Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 20,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.

About the role

We're hiring a Head of Technical Support to own how Mintlify supports its customers, from fast-growing startups to our largest enterprise accounts. You'll lead a growing team of support engineers and stay hands-on: working the hardest escalations, debugging customer setups, and building the tooling that lets the team scale.

Enterprise comes first. As more large companies run their documentation on Mintlify, they expect clear SLAs, fast escalation paths, and a support partner who can go deep technically. You'll build that motion, raise the operational bar with real metrics, and use AI so support keeps pace as our customer base grows.

  • Team: A growing team of support engineers, with open headcount

  • Location: San Francisco, in office 5 days a week

  • Type: Full-time, player-coach

What you'll do

Build the enterprise support motion

  • Define and run tiered SLAs, priority levels, and escalation paths for enterprise customers

  • Own critical escalations end-to-end, including communication with customer engineering leaders and executives

  • Partner with Sales, Solutions, and Customer Success on onboarding, renewals, and at-risk accounts

  • Handle technical questions in security reviews and complex setups such as SSO, custom domains, and CI/CD integrations

Scale support with AI and automation

  • Deploy and tune AI agents that deflect and resolve common questions, and measure their real resolution rate

  • Build internal tools, scripts, and workflows that cut handle time and repeat work

  • Turn recurring tickets into docs, product fixes, or automations

Tighten the loop with Engineering and Product

  • Own bug triage: clear reproductions, severity, and routing to the right team

  • Bring ticket data into roadmap discussions so the most painful issues get fixed

  • Run incident communication with customers alongside Engineering

Raise the team's operational and technical bar

  • Set up the metrics that matter (first response, time to resolution, CSAT, backlog, escalation rate, AI resolution rate) and report on them weekly

  • Forecast volume and headcount as the customer base grows

  • Hire, coach, and level support engineers; build career paths and a QA process

  • Set coverage and on-call so enterprise SLAs hold

What success looks like

  • 30 days: You've worked tickets and escalations yourself, met the team and key enterprise customers, and have a baseline of current support metrics.

  • 90 days: Enterprise SLAs and escalation paths are defined and live, a weekly metrics review is running, and you've shared a plan for AI deflection and team growth.

  • 6 months: Enterprise SLAs are met consistently, AI resolves a measured and growing share of inbound volume, and bug triage with Engineering runs on a clear cadence.

  • 12 months: Support scales with the customer base, the team has clear levels and career paths, and support data shapes the roadmap.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years in technical support, support engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role, including 1+ years managing a team

  • Experience leading support at a high-growth developer-tools or developer-focused company

  • Strong fluency in docs and developer tooling: Git and GitHub workflows, CI/CD, Markdown/MDX, static sites, APIs and OpenAPI specs, DNS and hosting

  • Hands-on debugging skills: you can reproduce an issue, read logs and config, and explain the root cause to an engineer or a customer

  • You've deployed AI in a support org (agents, deflection, or AI-assisted workflows) and can show what it changed in the numbers

  • Operational rigor: you've defined SLAs, built dashboards, reported metrics to leadership, and forecast volume and headcount

  • Calm, clear communication with enterprise customers during escalations and incidents

  • Able to work from our San Francisco office 5 days a week

Nice to have

  • You've used Mintlify or another docs platform, as a customer or on the team

  • You've built a support function from zero at an early-stage startup

  • You can write code (JavaScript/TypeScript or similar) to build internal tools and scripts

  • Experience with enterprise requirements such as SSO/SAML, security reviews, and custom domains

  • Familiarity with how LLM-based products work (retrieval, prompting, evals), which helps when supporting our AI features

Compensation and benefits

The base salary range for this role is $185,000–$225,000, plus equity. Final pay depends on experience and skills.

Company Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation and equity

  • 20 days paid time off every year

  • 401k with Employer Match

  • monthly wellness stipend

  • 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision

  • Free lunch and dinners

Standard company text repeated across Mintlify's postings is omitted here.

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