HACKER Q&A
📣 lluis_m_ventura

Does support and success should be one team?


I'm interviewing different companies while developing a new solution for support teams and see that many companies still have separated teams for support and success. What's your experience and opinion? Should they be together?


  👤 Akcium Accepted Answer ✓
I've never even heard about success team :)

👤 Jeremy1026
We have support and success separate. Success doesn't do a ton in terms of troubleshooting. They are a frontline to receive requests/complaints from high dollar customers, while support deals more with the day to day issues that are present in the system and answering basic config questions.

👤 lukevdp
Yes it should be separate. Support helps with the how, customer success helps with higher level strategic support, uncovering needs, upselling, etc. At a certain level, probably between 1-2m ARR, customer success becomes accretive.