Head of Product Support Asia

extra holidays - extra parental leave - work from anywhere - fully flexible
Work set-up: 
Full Remote
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Experience: 
Senior (5-10 years)
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum 7+ years of experience in Application Support or Engineering Support., At least 3+ years of experience building and managing cross-regional teams., Strong customer service skills with experience handling escalations., Understanding of SaaS architecture and products..

Key responsibilities:

  • Lead and oversee support teams across Asia, including hiring and daily operations.
  • Collaborate with global support leaders to ensure consistent support quality.
  • Mentor and develop support engineers and managers.
  • Act as the escalation point for customer support issues in Asia.

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Veeva Systems Computer Software / SaaS SME http://www.veeva.com
5001 - 10000 Employees
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Job description

Veeva Systems is a missiondriven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastestgrowing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. Were not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

The Head of Product Support Asia is responsible for Asia’s regional support for Veeva applications in Commercial, Development, Quality and Data Clouds to help organizations drive endtoend business processes. They will build and scale the team across Asia and be responsible for managing leaders and support engineers in a remote environment. The teams will be located in Japan, Korea, and Australia. They will collaborate closely with peers in the US and Europe to ensure a cohesive customer experience. This role reports to the VP of Global Customer Support.

What You’ll Do
  • Provide leadership and strategic direction to the support teams in Asia including overseeing the hiring, onboarding, and daytoday operations
  • Work closely with regional support leaders across North America, Europe, and Asia to ensure consistent and highquality support globally
  • Mentor, coach, and grow engineers and managers on the support team
  • Act as the escalation manager for Asia for customer support issues while driving the issue to resolution and manage communications within Veeva and to the customer.
  • Develop and foster strategic relationships with key customers.
  • Collaborate with Veeva’s product and regional leaders to represent the voice of the customer from a support perspective
  • Develop product knowledge to effectively understand how customers use the products
  • Identify and lead process improvement initiatives across the team and broader support
  • Utilize Zendesk and reporting to manage ticket support efficiently and drive continuous improvement.
  • Ensure support KPIs are met

  • Requirements
  • Minimum 7+ years experience in Application Support or Engineering Support
  • Minimum 3+ years experience building and managing crossregional highperforming teams
  • Strong customer service experience and ability to handle customer escalations.
  • Excellent communicator with a creative mindset
  • Experience supporting multiple products.
  • Proven experience leading leaders
  • Strategic thinker with an operational mindset
  • Ability to travel 510% and work flexible hours, including outside of standard business hours on occasion, as business needs dictate
  • Understanding of general SaaS architecture and products

  • Nice to Have
  • Experience in the life sciences or other heavily regulated industry
  • SaaS Support experience
  • Knowledge of Salesforce.com, Zendesk, and JIRA
  • Ability to speak English and Korean or Japanese
  • Located in Sydney
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    Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

    Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.
  • Required profile

    Experience

    Level of experience: Senior (5-10 years)
    Industry :
    Computer Software / SaaS
    Spoken language(s):
    English
    Check out the description to know which languages are mandatory.

    Other Skills

    • Customer Service
    • Leadership
    • Team Management
    • Strategic Thinking
    • Communication

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