Director of Customer Support

Who is Litmus

Litmus is building the data foundation that powers industrial AI.

AI doesn’t work without real-world, contextualized data - Litmus makes that data usable. As AI adoption accelerates, most industrial environments still can’t access or use their operational data. We solve that gap.

We’re a growth-stage software company helping manufacturers access, structure, and use real-time data from machines, systems, and sensors at the edge. Our platform sits at the intersection of edge computing, AI, and industrial operations, enabling some of the world’s largest companies to run operations in real time, reduce downtime, and optimize production.

Backed by leading investors and trusted by global manufacturers and partners like Google, Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, and Mitsubishi, Litmus is powering the shift toward software-defined manufacturing.

Why join Litmus

Build the infrastructure that makes industrial AI possible

AI is moving beyond the cloud and into the physical world. At Litmus, you’ll build the infrastructure that enables real-time data to power AI and machine learning systems in production environments.

Work on problems where software meets the real world

Most AI systems fail without access to real-world data. You’ll build the layer that makes them viable in production. We solve challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time data, and industrial constraints — where reliability, scale, and performance are non-negotiable.

Have real impact, fast

You’ll work on systems used by real customers in production, with direct impact on product and company trajectory. As a scaling company, we move quickly. You’ll have ownership, visibility, and the ability to shape both product and company as we scale.

Join a high-performance team

We’re building a team that holds a high bar and pushes each other to improve. You’ll work alongside experienced operators, engineers, and leaders who have done this before and are building again at scale. We hire people who take ownership, move quickly, and care about outcomes. No passengers.

Our culture

At Litmus, the team is collaborative, curious, and low ego. People are scrappy, take ownership, and look for ways to make an impact. We value empathy just as much as execution, whether that’s in how we build, how we communicate, or how we support each other.

We’re a growing company, so things move quickly and not everything is perfectly defined. If you enjoy figuring things out, working closely with others, and making steady progress, you’ll do well here.

About the Role

Litmus Automation is seeking a Director of Customer Support to lead the strategy, operating model, and performance of our customer support function. This leader will be accountable for delivering a consistent, high-quality support experience for customers using Litmus Edge and Litmus Edge Manager across complex industrial and enterprise environments.

You will lead support managers and technical support professionals, establish scalable processes and service standards, and partner closely with Engineering, Product, Customer Success, Technical Delivery, Sales, and Learning & Development. The role balances executive leadership with practical operational depth: using data to improve service, guiding critical escalations, strengthening technical capability, and ensuring customer feedback informs product and business priorities.

The successful candidate is a people-first, systems-oriented leader who can operate effectively in a fast-growing B2B software environment. You bring sound judgment, clear communication, and enough technical capability to lead teams supporting edge computing, industrial data, networking, Linux, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and operational technology integrations.

What You’ll Do

· Set the global customer support strategy, operating model, service standards, and multi-year roadmap in alignment with Litmus Automation’s growth and customer experience goals.

· Lead, coach, and develop support managers, team leads, analysts, and technical support engineers; establish clear expectations, career paths, succession plans, and a culture of accountability, learning, and customer advocacy.

· Own support performance and customer outcomes, including service-level attainment, response and resolution times, backlog health, customer satisfaction, quality, productivity, and escalation effectiveness.

· Design scalable follow-the-sun coverage, workforce capacity, case-routing, severity, escalation, and incident communication practices appropriate for enterprise and industrial customers.

· Serve as the executive escalation leader for critical customer issues; coordinate technical response, stakeholder communication, root-cause follow-up, and corrective actions while maintaining customer confidence.

· Partner with Engineering and Product to improve defect triage, bug management, problem management, release readiness, product quality, supportability, and closed-loop voice-of-customer processes.

· Partner with Customer Success and Technical Delivery to create seamless handoffs across onboarding, implementation, adoption, support, and renewal, with clear ownership throughout the customer lifecycle.

· Establish a data-driven operating cadence with dashboards, forecasts, business reviews, and actionable insights for executive stakeholders; translate trends into staffing, process, tooling, and product recommendations.

· Build and maintain scalable knowledge-management, self-service, case-deflection, and enablement programs in partnership with Learning & Development and subject-matter experts.

· Own the support technology ecosystem and process governance, including Zendesk or equivalent platforms, reporting, automation, integrations, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted support capabilities.

· Define and manage the support budget, headcount plan, vendor relationships, and investments; balance customer impact, team sustainability, risk, and operational efficiency.

· Ensure support practices meet applicable security, privacy, compliance, business continuity, and customer-commitment requirements.

· Maintain sufficient familiarity with the Litmus product portfolio and relevant technologies to challenge assumptions, guide prioritization, and support effective decision-making during complex issues.

What You’ll Bring – Must Have

· 10+ years of progressive experience in B2B software, enterprise technology, or technical customer support, including 5+ years leading managers and geographically distributed support teams.

· Demonstrated success building or scaling a customer support organization serving complex enterprise customers, with measurable improvements in service quality, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, or team performance.

· Strong command of support operations, including service-level management, case and backlog management, severity models, escalations, major incidents, quality programs, knowledge management, workforce planning, and continuous improvement.

· Experience using customer support platforms such as Zendesk and analytics tools to define metrics, identify trends, forecast demand, and drive executive decisions.

· Proven ability to lead high-impact customer escalations with composure, sound judgment, transparent communication, and disciplined follow-through.

· Excellent people leadership, coaching, organizational design, and change-management skills, with a record of developing leaders and building inclusive, high-performing teams.

· Strong cross-functional influence and executive communication skills; able to align Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Technical Delivery, Sales, and other stakeholders around customer outcomes.

· Working technical fluency across SaaS and/or edge software, Linux, networking, APIs, databases, cloud environments, containers, security certificates, and troubleshooting concepts; able to engage credibly without being the primary hands-on resolver.

· Strong critical thinking, prioritization, process design, relationship-building, active listening, and written and verbal communication skills.

· Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

· Ability to work from Toronto, Ontario, Canada in accordance with Litmus Automation’s workplace expectations and to travel occasionally for customer or team needs.

What You’ll Bring – Nice to Have

· Experience supporting industrial software, edge computing, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturing, operational technology, or Industry 4.0 customers.

· Familiarity with Litmus Edge, Litmus Edge Manager, or comparable edge management, data integration, device connectivity, analytics, and application-orchestration platforms.

· Knowledge of industrial protocols and environments such as OPC UA/DA, MQTT, Kafka, PLCs, SCADA, MES, historians, and the Purdue model.

· Experience with cloud and infrastructure technologies such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, SQL, InfluxDB, and certificate management.

· Experience leading 24/7 or follow-the-sun support operations and working with enterprise support tiers, premium support offerings, or globally distributed customers.

· Background in customer education, support certification, knowledge-centred service (KCS), ITIL, Lean, Six Sigma, or another structured continuous-improvement approach.

· Experience introducing self-service, automation, or AI capabilities while maintaining quality, security, governance, and a strong human customer experience.

· Relevant technical, support, project-management, or cloud certification.