# Head of Customer Engineering

**Company:** [Tatum](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/qH7jrQQzio14mEzSpcbRu1.md)
**Location:** Brno, Czechia
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

### Role mission

We are looking for a hands-on Head of Customer Engineering to lead our Support and Solutions Engineering organization. Your mission is to transform these teams into a proactive, customer-focused team that helps customers successfully onboard, adopt, and scale.

The main goal is to build a scalable support model, improve customer satisfaction, create clear processes, and make sure that Support, Solutions Engineering, Commercial, Product, and Engineering teams work together effectively.

### Key responsibilities

### Leadership & Operations

-   Own the Customer Engineering organization (Support and Solutions Engineers).
-   Lead team priorities, delivery, customer outcomes, and day-to-day operations.
-   Build a modern, proactive, customer-oriented organization that scales with the business.
-   Establish clear ownership, support processes, escalation paths, SLAs, and collaboration models across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success.
-   Define how Solutions Engineers engage in customer onboarding, trials, POCs, enterprise deployments, escalations, and technical pre-sales activities.
-   Ensure high-quality onboarding, internal knowledge sharing, customer documentation, and knowledge transfer from Engineering.
-   Partner with Sales on enterprise customer discussions, solution design, and technical onboarding.
-   Own operational KPIs, customer satisfaction, reporting, and process improvement.
-   Participate directly in customer escalations, incidents, and critical operational activities.

## Requirements

-   5+ years of experience leading Technical Support, Professional Services, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Customer Engineering, or similar customer-facing technical organizations.
-   Experience managing technical customer-facing teams.
-   Hands-on approach to tickets, escalations, incidents, and process improvements.
-   Experience with API-first, SaaS, infrastructure, fintech, blockchain, or developer platforms.
-   Ability to build support processes, escalation models, KPIs, and reporting.
-   Experience managing 24/7 support operations, incident management, on-call rotations, and SLA-driven organizations.
-   Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Product, Sales, Customer Success, and executive leadership.