Customer Experience Manager

Aimé Leon Dore

$80K — $90K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5+ years in customer experience or service roles, ideally in retail or hospitality.
  • Exceptional writing skills for professional and brand-aligned communication.
  • Experience handling high-volume inquiries with empathy and accuracy.
  • Familiarity with Gorgias, ERP, 3PL, and Shopify platforms is preferred.
  • Proven ability to collaborate, hold team members accountable, and take ownership of tasks.
  • Strong problem-solving abilities for managing complex customer issues.
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, capable of juggling multiple inquiries.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a high-performing customer experience team focused on a customer-first approach.
  • Address diverse customer concerns including post-purchase questions and service complaints.
  • Ensure brand voice consistency in all digital communications while providing timely resolutions.
  • Act as the primary liaison between customer experience and internal teams for voice-of-customer insights.
  • Align customer experience initiatives with product launches and marketing campaigns through internal collaboration.
  • Work closely with logistics and operations to resolve order-related issues effectively.
  • Identify and implement workflow enhancements, automation, and digitization to improve efficiency.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on mentorship and team development.
  • Opportunity to influence customer experience strategies across departments.
  • Engagement with innovative tools like AI and chatbots for process improvement.
  • Access to key metrics reporting to impact strategic decision-making.
  • A culture of continuous improvement and performance excellence.
Full Job Description
Aimé Leon Dore is looking for a Customer Experience Manager to join our team in New York, New York, reporting directly to Director of Domestic Operations. This position will support ALD's end-to-end customer journey by overseeing and resolving customer issues across all channels. This role serves as a central point of contact for customer concerns, ensuring timely, accurate, and brand-aligned responses while partnering with internal teams to keep the customer experience smooth and consistent.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing CX team, fostering a customer-first mindset by implementing regular coaching/QA, managing clear performance goals, providing feedback, and development pathways.
  • Address a broad range of customer concerns, including post-purchase questions, product issues, service complaints, delivery delays, order discrepancies, store interactions, and general feedback.
  • Maintain ALD's service tone and brand voice in all digital communications while delivering efficient, solutions-oriented resolutions.
  • Serve as the primary CX liaison with internal teams, to ensure voice-of-customer insights are shared and actioned.
  • Partner with all internal teams to align CX initiatives with product rollouts, marketing campaigns, and operational changes, while representing the CX function in cross-departmental communications
  • Work with fulfillment, logistics, and operations teams to troubleshoot order-related concerns, including shipment errors, delays, or damaged goods.
  • Support operational and service improvements by documenting issue trends and proposing small-scale workflow enhancements, while owning strategic decision-making.
  • Identify, lead, evaluate, and deploy workflow automation, AI/chatbot integration, and process digitization to enhance team efficiency and customer self-service.
  • Monitor, analyze, and report on key CX metrics to inform strategy and performance, while regularly presenting performance reports and insights to leadership.
  • Champion a culture of continuous improvement, proactively identifying friction points and implementing solutions.
  • Establish, track, and exceed departmental and personal KPIs - while setting a roadmap for future performance benchmarks.

Qualifications
  • 3-5+ years in customer experience, customer service, hospitality, retail support, or digital support roles.
  • Strong written communication skills with the ability to convey clear, professional, brand-aligned responses.
  • Experience managing high-volume customer inquiries with accuracy and empathy.
  • Experience with Gorgias, ERP, 3PL Warehousing and Shopify preferred
  • Ability to collaborate effectively, hold others accountable, and take ownership of function
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate complex customer concerns.
  • Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple open cases simultaneously.

Salary Range: $80,000 - $90,000

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