Technical Support Team Lead

Point One Navigation Inc•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Point One Navigation is building the future of precise location. Our mission is to deliver a unified location platform that enables autonomy, safety, and efficiency across industries from robotics to transportation. We are a high-performance, high-collaboration team that thrives on solving complex problems, moving fast, and delivering impact. Role Outcome The Support Lead owns the quality, speed, and scalability of Point One’s customer support experience. This is a player-coach role: you will personally handle complex technical support cases while simultaneously designing the foundational systems, processes, and insights that enable us to scale support as the business grows. Success in this role means: Ensure customer issues are resolved quickly and effectively, optimizing for speed to resolution and a positive customer experience. The broader organization has continuous, structured visibility into customer friction, feature demand, and satisfaction. Leadership can make informed product and prioritization decisions grounded in real customer data, not anecdotes. Immediate Areas of Focus Deliver High-Quality Technical Support Personally manage a meaningful volume of customer support tickets, prioritizing speed, accuracy, and customer confidence. Ensure consistent, high-quality customer communication, setting expectations and providing timely updates throughout the support lifecycle. Model best-in-class technical support practices for the team through hands-on participation and leadership by example. Partner closely with FAEs and/or Network Operations to resolve issues efficiently and close the loop with customers. Build the Foundation for a Scalable Support Function Define and implement a support ticket taxonomy that reflects customer use cases, technical complexity, and urgency. Establish core support metrics (e.g., response time, resolution time, backlog health) and build simple, actionable reporting. Document standard operating procedures, escalation paths, and ownership models that enable consistency without bureaucracy. Define the initial scope and structure of the customer knowledge base, including what content exists, what’s missing, and how it stays current. Leverage emerging technologies (automation, AI-assisted tooling, internal dashboards) to increase support efficiency and reduce repetitive work. Surface Customer Insights Across the Company Identify patterns, recurring issues, feature requests, and friction points across support interactions. Create a lightweight process for surfacing customer patterns and insights Ensure customer feedback informs prioritization, roadmap decisions, and quality improvements. Establish Visibility Into Customer Satisfaction Define which satisfaction metrics matter most (e.g., CSAT, NPS, or alternatives) and why. Determine when and how surveys are sent to customers without creating noise or fatigue. Establish an initial baseline of customer satisfaction and trends over time. Translate qualitative and quantitative feedback into clear action items. Coach and Develop the Support Function Train and mentor new technical support representatives, setting clear expectations for technical depth, customer communication, and ownership. Model best-in-class customer interactions through your own work. Continuously raise the bar for support quality as the team grows.

Requirements

Experience in a player-coach support role, owning both hands-on support and system/process design.
Strong technical background in GPS/GNSS, precise localization, or closely related domains (robotics, autonomy, embedded systems, or positioning technologies).
Proven customer-facing experience as a technical support with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly and confidently.
Experience standing up or significantly evolving an early-stage customer support function.
Ability to define metrics, processes, and documentation without over-engineering.
Demonstrated ability to train, mentor, and ramp technical support team members.
Comfort working cross-functionally across GTM, Product and Engineering in a fast-moving environment.
Bias toward action, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Personally manage a meaningful volume of customer support tickets, prioritizing speed, accuracy, and customer confidence.
Ensure consistent, high-quality customer communication, setting expectations and providing timely updates throughout the support lifecycle.
Model best-in-class technical support practices for the team through hands-on participation and leadership by example.
Partner closely with FAEs and/or Network Operations to resolve issues efficiently and close the loop with customers.
Define and implement a support ticket taxonomy that reflects customer use cases, technical complexity, and urgency.
Establish core support metrics (e.g., response time, resolution time, backlog health) and build simple, actionable reporting.
Document standard operating procedures, escalation paths, and ownership models that enable consistency without bureaucracy.
Define the initial scope and structure of the customer knowledge base, including what content exists, what’s missing, and how it stays current.
Leverage emerging technologies (automation, AI-assisted tooling, internal dashboards) to increase support efficiency and reduce repetitive work.
Identify patterns, recurring issues, feature requests, and friction points across support interactions.
Create a lightweight process for surfacing customer patterns and insights
Ensure customer feedback informs prioritization, roadmap decisions, and quality improvements.
Define which satisfaction metrics matter most (e.g., CSAT, NPS, or alternatives) and why.
Determine when and how surveys are sent to customers without creating noise or fatigue.
Establish an initial baseline of customer satisfaction and trends over time.
Translate qualitative and quantitative feedback into clear action items.
Train and mentor new technical support representatives, setting clear expectations for technical depth, customer communication, and ownership.
Model best-in-class customer interactions through your own work.
Continuously raise the bar for support quality as the team grows.