Manager, Customer Support | APAC
Heidi Health
Location
Sydney
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Customer Support
Why join Heidi Health?
🧘♂️ Additional paid day off for your birthday and wellness days
🎓 A generous personal development budget of $500 per annum
🧠 Learn from some of the best engineers and creatives, joining a diverse team
🌏 The rare chance to create a global impact as you immerse yourself in one of Australia’s leading healthtech startups
🚀 If you have an impact quickly, the opportunity to fast track your startup career!
🩺 Help us reimagine primary care and change the face of healthcare in Australia and then around the world.
About Your Role
We're looking for an experienced Customer Support Manager to scale our global support function. This role will lead regional L2 Support in APAC, manage technical and non-technical roles, play a key role in delivering premium support experiences, and resolving complex, high-impact customer issues.
Reporting to the Head of Support, you’ll act as a regional owner, balancing people leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.
This is a chance to help shape a world-class customer support function that drives loyalty, advocacy, and business impact.
You’ll lead by example and help shape a happy, healthy and high-performing, customer-centric team in a high-trust healthcare environment.
What You’ll Do:
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Leadership & Team Performance
Hire, lead, coach, and develop Enterprise Customer Support Specialists and Customer Support Engineers, setting clear expectations for quality, and customer communication.
Support senior ICs in handling complex investigations, high-risk clinical scenarios, and technically challenging cases.
Provide regular 1:1s, feedback, and development support, helping individuals grow in depth, confidence, and decision-making.
Assess agent performance against expectations and competencies, owning performance assessments and development planning
Position and support your team to succeed by a sustained focus on the fundamentals (speed, quality, tone, backlog management, throughput and resolution), remove roadblocks, encourage collaboration.
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New Hire Recruitment & Onboarding
Own recruitment and onboarding of Enterprise Customer Support Specialists and Support Engineers, including conducting interviews, providing structured feedback, and helping new hires to ramp effectively and feel supported.
Hire talent with strong technical and documentation skills who raise the bar.
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Escalation Management
Act as a senior escalation point for complex, sensitive, or high-impact customer issues. Guide customers and internal teams through challenging situations with calm, clarity, and sound judgment.
Ensure escalations are prioritised appropriately and resolved in a way that protects customer trust and experience.
Identify patterns in escalations that indicate systemic risk or opportunity.
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Regional Operational Excellence
Own day to day L2 operational health for your region, including capacity, coverage, attainment of Key Business Metrics and workflow efficiency.
Track and interpret key business metrics (e.g. CSAT, response times, resolution rates), surfacing weekly insights and action points to Support Leadership.
Use data to identify opportunities and drive improvements in response times, customer satisfaction, and support quality.
Identify risks early and work with cross-functional partners to mitigate issues before they impact customers.
Contribute to the creation and ongoing improvement of support SOPs by providing insights, identifying gaps or edge cases, and partnering with enablement to ensure guidance is clear, practical, and effective.
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Team Engagement & Culture
Role model Heidi values, build and maintain team morale, culture and energy. Foster a positive, supportive team environment that promotes engagement, psychological safety, and high standards of care.
Recognise strong performance, support your team through challenges, and address signs of burnout or disengagement early.
Lead and contribute to team rituals that reinforce connection, learning, and shared purpose.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration & Feedback
Advocate for customer experience in cross-functional forums, partner with enablement and internal teams to resolve complex issues.
Represent Support in discussions around product readiness, incident response, and major customer-impacting issues.
Who You Are:
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Experience
4+ years experience working as a manager in a customer support/technical support service capacity - SaaS, HealthTech, or high-trust environments highly desired but we’re open to speaking to people from all CS backgrounds.
Experience hiring, onboarding and managing senior support roles, such as enterprise specialists or support engineers.
Proven success handling complex troubleshooting, escalations, and high-impact customer situations.
Experience working cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Product and Engineering teams.
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Skills & attributes
A customer-first mindset, with a focus on trust, clarity, and care.
Strong people-leadership skills, with the ability to coach experienced ICs and build high-performing teams.
Sound judgment and calm decision-making in ambiguous, high-pressure situations.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data and patterns into action.
Clear, structured communicator who can work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders and the ability to motivate and inspire is a must.
Comfortable operating at multiple levels - from detailed operational execution to broader planning and coordination.
Strong customer-centric approach, high standards, sense of optimism, flexibility, resilience, grit, and creativity
What do we believe in?
Heidi builds for the future of healthcare, not just the next quarter, and our goals are ambitious because the world’s health demands it. We believe in progress built through precision, pace, and ownership.
Live Forever - Every release moves care forward: measured, safe, and built to last. Data guides us, but patients define the truth that matters.
Practice Ownership - Decisions follow logic and proof, not hierarchy. Exceptional care demands exceptional standards in our work, our thinking, and our character.
Small Cuts Heal Faster - Stability earns trust, speed delivers impact. Progress is about learning fast without breaking what people depend on.
Make others better - Feedback is direct, kindness is constant, and excellence lifts everyone. Our success is measured by collective growth, not individual output.
Our mission is clear: expand the world’s capacity to care, and do it without losing the humanity that makes care worth delivering.
Who are Heidi?
Heidi is building an AI Care Partner that supports clinicians every step of the way, from documentation to delivery of care.
We exist to double healthcare’s capacity while keeping care deeply human. In 18 months, Heidi has returned more than 18 million hours to clinicians and supported over 73 million patient visits. Today, more than two million patient visits each week are powered by Heidi across 116 countries and over 110 languages.
Founded by clinicians, Heidi brings together clinicians, engineers, designers, scientists, creatives, and mathematicians, working with a shared purpose: to strengthen the human connection at the heart of healthcare.
Backed by nearly $100 million in total funding, Heidi is expanding across ANZ, the USA, UK, Canada, and Europe, partnering with major health systems
We move quickly where it matters and stay grounded in what’s proven, shaping healthcare’s next era. Ready for the challenge?