4 IT Support Specialists jobs in Kitchener

Job Description

About Dialpad
Dialpad is the leading Ai-powered customer communications platform, transforming how businesses communicate with their customers. More than 50,000 companies around the globe — including Netflix, RE/MAX, Uber, Randstad, and Tractor Supply — rely on Dialpad to build stronger customer connections using real-time, Ai-driven insights. Visit dialpad.com to learn more.

Being a Dialer
At Dialpad, you'll be part of a collaborative team working toward our shared mission of making our customers and their employees wildly successful. We believe that every conversation matters, and we're elevating each one with a platform that drives real-time insights and automation for our customers.

We thrive on continuous evolution, where every employee leverages industry-leading Ai to constantly refine our platform and our own skills. We seek individuals who not only meet our high standards but go beyond them. Our ambition is significant, and achieving it requires a team that operates at the highest level. We look for individuals who are not just ambitious but who also possess the traits that are fundamental to our success: Scrappy, Curious, Optimistic, Persistent, and Empathetic .

Your role

As the Team Lead for Advanced Service Partner Support, you are our most senior technical expert and a hands-on mentor. You will not only manage your own queue of complex escalations but also serve as the primary point of guidance and support for the engineers on your team. You will be responsible for day-to-day workflow management, quality control, and acting as the first point of escalation for challenging cases.

This is a role for a natural leader who is passionate about technology and enjoys elevating the skills of their teammates. You will be instrumental in driving technical consistency, troubleshooting the toughest problems, and ensuring the team's success.

You are a go-to technical expert who naturally steps up to lead and guide your peers. You have a passion for mentoring and find satisfaction in helping others succeed. You remain calm and focused under pressure, able to navigate technically complex and emotionally charged situations with confidence. You lead by example, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to quality, ownership, and partner satisfaction.

What you'll do

• Act as a "player-coach," managing your own caseload of the most complex partner escalations while providing daily guidance and mentorship to the team.
• Serve as the first point of technical escalation for team members, providing expert advice and taking ownership of issues when necessary.
• Monitor team queues and dashboards to ensure proper case distribution, adherence to SLAs, and consistent quality.
• Lead the team's root cause analysis efforts, helping to identify trends and contributing to reports for leadership.
• Assist in the onboarding and training of new team members, acting as a dedicated mentor to accelerate their development.
• Champion the partner escalation playbook, ensuring the team follows best practices and helping to refine processes.
• Participate in the interview process for new candidates.
• Foster a collaborative and positive team environment focused on knowledge sharing and mutual success.

Skills you'll bring

• Required: 6+ years of experience in a senior technical support role (e.g., Tier 3, Escalation Management, Senior/Principal Engineer).
• Required: Extensive, hands-on experience in customer and partner de-escalation and managing critical technical incidents.
• Highly Desired: Prior formal or informal experience in a mentorship or team lead capacity.
• Deep technical mastery of VoIP, UCaaS, or complex SaaS products, with the ability to troubleshoot issues others cannot.
• Strong understanding of SIP, local networking (QoS, Firewalls), and packet capture analysis.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to mentor and develop technical talent.
• Bachelor's degree and/or technical certification (e.g., CCNA, Network+) is preferred.

We believe in investing in our people. Dialpad offers competitive benefits and perks, alongside a robust training program that helps you reach your full potential. We have designed our offices to be inclusive, offering a vibrant environment to cultivate collaboration and connection. Our exceptional culture, recognized repeatedly as a certified Great Place to Work, ensures every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success.

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role and you possess the fundamental traits, the drive, and strong ambition we seek, but your experience doesn't satisfy every qualification, we encourage you to apply.

Dialpad is an equal-opportunity employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment.

Job Description

About Dialpad
Dialpad is the leading Ai-powered customer communications platform, transforming how businesses communicate with their customers. More than 50,000 companies around the globe — including Netflix, RE/MAX, Uber, Randstad, and Tractor Supply — rely on Dialpad to build stronger customer connections using real-time, Ai-driven insights. Visit dialpad.com to learn more.

Being a Dialer
At Dialpad, you'll be part of a collaborative team working toward our shared mission of making our customers and their employees wildly successful. We believe that every conversation matters, and we're elevating each one with a platform that drives real-time insights and automation for our customers.

We thrive on continuous evolution, where every employee leverages industry-leading Ai to constantly refine our platform and our own skills. We seek individuals who not only meet our high standards but go beyond them. Our ambition is significant, and achieving it requires a team that operates at the highest level. We look for individuals who are not just ambitious but who also possess the traits that are fundamental to our success: Scrappy, Curious, Optimistic, Persistent, and Empathetic .

Your role

As an Advanced Service Partner Support Engineer, you are more than a support agent; you are a partner advocate, a technical detective, and a crisis manager. You will take full ownership of escalated support tickets, acting as the single point of contact for our partners through their most challenging situations. You will host live troubleshooting sessions with partners and their customers, dive deep into system logs, and navigate our internal organization to drive issues to a swift and complete resolution.

Beyond just fixing problems, you will be a key driver of systemic improvement. You will be responsible for creating internal documentation, identifying trends in escalations, and providing data-driven feedback to improve our products and processes. This is a role for someone with a team-first attitude who thrives on challenges and is adaptable to change.

This position reports to the Director, Advanced Support Services and is based in our Kitchener office. The preferred working hours will be Monday through Friday between 8 am and 8 pm Eastern Time.

Our team is for people who enjoy working as communicators and interpreters at the interface between customers and engineers. You are someone who loves to understand technical problems, identify the right troubleshooting path, and then share the key lessons of the investigation with the customer. As an Advanced Service Partner Support Engineer, you love to gain and share technical knowledge to help customers and product engineers and to make a positive impact beyond just handling tickets.

What you'll do

• Train on the basics of Dialpad's products, key features, and company culture.
• Complete self-study activities that introduce best practices for advanced troubleshooting and adopt best practices that will help you learn about the more technical details of how Dialpad's products work.
• Participate in team meetings and direct or virtual side-by-side training with teammates.
• You'll become familiar with navigating our public and internal knowledge tools to find resources and best practices for various troubleshooting situations.
• Begin helping investigate quality and performance issues on Dialpad-compatible devices and customer networks.
• Take calls from inbound mediums
• You'll be responsible for assigning yourself work from the queue and assisting customers with their issues.
• Receive performance feedback from your first 30 days and will work with your manager to identify which specific skills to focus your time developing for the next 30-day interval.
• File feedback requests and bug reports and will partner with engineers to address customer-reported issues.
• Learn how to file tickets with our carrier partners and other third-party vendors and see them to completion.
• Begin filing tickets with engineers and carrier partners for issues requiring additional follow-up.
• Begin training on outage handling best practices.
• You'll be responsible for proactively taking tickets from the queue and helping drive contacts to the appropriate resolution.
• You may occasionally troubleshoot escalations about Dialpad meetings.
• Meet our established service levels and productivity standards for ticket handling.
• Effectively manage communications with various internal teams, including Product Support, Engineering, and Customer Success.
• Manage carrier escalations and trouble tickets, deal with issues related to carrier interoperability, perform network assessments, and make test calls.
• You'll start preparation to join the emergency on-call rotation for the team.
• Train on outage handling best practices and be available to provide support for any teammates who may be handling an outage.
• You'll be part of innovating methods to drive positive change in telephony escalations, including improving support effectiveness, identifying ways to improve troubleshooting workflows, providing feedback about the onboarding experience, and participating in discussions about maintaining high-quality service as the customer base grows.

Skills you'll bring

• Required: 5+ years of experience in a senior technical support role (e.g., Tier 3, Escalation Management, Technical

Overview

We are currently looking for someone to join our dynamic Leadership Team in the role of Personal Support Manager. The primary role of the Personal Support Manager is to provide effective coordination and supervision of the delivery of Community Health Services. 

This is a Temporary Full-Time 1 Year Contract position. Hours of work will be Monday-Friday as well as participation in the Branch Manager On-Call, which includes evenings and weekends on a rotational basis.

This position will be working out of our Waterloo, ON office. 

What We Offer

What The Role Involves

Our leadership team plays a critical role in providing high quality patient care, mentoring our health care teams and inspiring others.

What You Bring

CarePartners In Your Community

In addition to providing home-based health care, CarePartners also serves the community through clinics, transitional care units, and provides relief in retirement homes and shared care settings. Through our Community Nursing Services outreach program, we’ve been organizing staff-led medical care and clinics in countries with poor access to health care since 2009.

Accessibility

CarePartners welcomes and encourages applicants from people with disabilities. Candidates can request accommodations at any time in the hiring process.