Manager, Technical Support - EMEA

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

Our Support mission is simple and bold: “We make complex solutions seem simple, and are leaders in customer education.” We focus on deep troubleshooting, clear customer guidance, and delivering exceptional experiences across a rapidly growing product surface. Our North Star is excellence in Vanta’s Customer Experience. This role strengthens that goal by building a capable, empowered team, improving operational systems, and influencing product quality and cross-functional outcomes.

As a Manager, Support, you will pair strategic ownership, strong decision-making, data fluency, and thoughtful AI integration to empower your team in solving Vanta’s most complex customer challenges.

What you’ll do as a Manager, Support at Vanta

• Lead a high-performing Support team

  • Hire, manage and develop Support Professionals, building a culture of accountability, curiosity, customer value, and resilience

  • Drive strong performance across productivity, quality, CSAT, and operational KPIs

  • Hire talent with strong technical and documentation skills who raise the bar

  • Provide clear, actionable feedback and coach effectively to help individuals grow

  • Encourage a customer-education mindset by helping the team turn troubleshooting into learning moments for customers

  • Identify knowledge or skill gaps within the team and partner with Enablement, Knowledge Management, or SMEs to build training that strengthens technical depth and AI collaboration.

  • Work a small number of tickets to stay connected to customer challenges, product behaviour, and team workflows.

• Build operational excellence and predictable delivery

  • Establish scalable rhythms for capacity planning, queue health, and performance reviews

  • Use clear expectations, measurable goals, and coaching frameworks to support high performance and address gaps effectively.

  • Operate comfortably at multiple altitudes, moving between strategic planning and hands-on operational detail fluidly

  • Identify risks early and develop pragmatic mitigation plans

  • Partner with Support Operations to streamline workflows and reduce friction

  • Ensure timely, expert handling of complex, urgent, and high-value customer issues

  • Influence and motivate cross-functional partners to achieve shared goals across Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Customer teams.

  • Run consistent 1:1s that provide clarity, coaching, and growth opportunities while reinforcing team accountability.

• Accelerate our AI-first support model

  • Collaborate with the AI Optimisation Specialist and Support Systems Engineer to enhance AI routing, containment, and accuracy

  • Guide your team in adopting and mastering AI-assisted workflows

  • Maintain and elevate the quality of troubleshooting guides, knowledge assets, and AI-ready content

  • Identify opportunities for automation and continuous improvement

• Strengthen Premium Support experiences

  • Oversee Premium and urgent ticket flows to ensure consistent, high-touch service

  • Identify patterns that reduce friction for high-value customers

  • Partner cross-functionally to enhance Premium Support processes and offerings

  • Handle escalations with empathy, clarity, and composure, guiding customers through high-impact issues and restoring confidence.

• Influence product quality and customer experience

  • Build strong relationships with Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Customer Education

  • Surface data-driven insights that support product improvements and reduce repeated issues

  • Represent Support in product readiness, bug triage, and roadmap conversations

How to be successful in this role:

• 5+ years of Support leadership experience, ideally in fast-growing SaaS or technical complex environments.

• Be located in Dublin, Ireland

• Proven success leading teams through complex troubleshooting and escalations

• Experience managing hybrid or distributed teams

• Experience implementing AI or leading teams in an AI-enabled support model (AI workflows, routing, automation, quality improvement)

• Background working in fast-growing or rapidly scaling companies, where systems, processes, and expectations evolve quickly

• Track record of building processes and driving outcomes, not just managing tasks

• Strong track record partnering cross-functionally to improve product and customer outcomes

• Experience supporting Premium and Enterprise customers

• Prior hands-on support experience

Skills & attributes

• Ability to move easily between strategic thinking and tactical execution

• Strong analytical judgment; able to interpret data and translate it into action

• Clear, structured communication across audiences

• High resilience and calm problem-solving under pressure

• Strong decision-making in ambiguous or fast-changing contexts

• Comfortable modernising workflows and integrating AI into daily operations

• A passion for making complex concepts feel simple and enabling customers through education

• Effective working up, across, and down within an organisation

• Rotational on-call responsibilities and weekend & holidays support needed at times

Nice to have

• Familiarity with KCS and Intelligent Swarming

• KCS v6 certification

• GRC experience

What you can expect as a Vantan:

• Industry-competitive salary and equity

• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage

• 16 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents (birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive)

• Health & wellness stipend

• Remote workspace,internet and mobile phone stipend

• Commuter benefits, including bike to work scheme and tax commuter ticket scheme

• Pension matching

• 11 company paid holidays plus 25 days of PTO per year

• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

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At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security. From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged. 

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.