Support Driven Support Operations - EU
Fireside Chat

Technical Support from Scratch to Scale: Overcoming Challenges, Achieving Successes, and Unveiling Opportunities

Scott Parker
Senior Customer Success Engineering Manager at Vercel

Simon Rohrbach
Co-Founder & CEO at Plain

Support Driven hosted a fireside chat event for Support Operations - register above to check out the recording.

Any kind of high-quality support is hard to scale, but scaling support for highly technical products can be particularly challenging. Even small issues are often time-sensitive. Larger problems routinely business-critical. Customer experience issues come from a myriad of edge cases, and require in-depth expertise to triage and resolve.

So how do you scale a technical support team from just a handful of specialists to 20 in a company growing from 40 to 400 over just a few years, all while supporting a fast-growing and demanding customer base?

In this fireside chat, our speakers discussed things such as:

  • The story of support at Vercel

  • Lessons learned in building the team

  • Maintaining high service levels when everything is on fire

  • Building support expertise in an environment where new products launch and existing ones evolve all the time

  • Keeping a customer-focused culture in a high-growth environment

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