Customer Experience Team Lead

Whatnot

$75K — $95K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in support operations managing key performance indicators (KPIs) like Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
  • Proven leadership skills with a focus on team motivation and performance management
  • Experience in driving operational excellence and quality improvements
  • Strong analytical abilities with a data-driven approach
  • Ownership mentality, always seeking improvements in work and customer experience
  • Familiarity with customer support platforms like Zendesk and data tools such as Sigma
  • Knowledge of multichannel support operations and experience in ecommerce or startup environments

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Customer Experience team to enhance productivity and quality metrics
  • Coach and develop agents while fostering a positive team culture
  • Act as a subject matter expert in daily operations and product processes
  • Drive accountability for adherence to policies and guidelines
  • Utilize reporting tools to identify performance improvement areas
  • Generate insights from customer interaction data to enhance product and experience
  • Collaborate with other teams to resolve critical issues and improve processes

Benefits

  • Generous holiday and time-off policy
  • Health insurance options including medical, dental, and vision
  • Support for remote work with allowances for home office setup and communication
  • Care benefits including wellness allowances and support for childcare and family planning
  • Retirement plans with employer match and international pension offerings
  • Monthly allowance for utilizing the app internally to enhance user experience
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave with gradual return to work policy
Full Job Description
Role

The Customer Experience team is responsible for driving the best possible user experience through process improvement, order management, and problem-solving. As a leader of this team, you will be responsible for ensuring that our team of agents dig into every ticket to the lowest level of detail so they can best solve customer issues and provide critical user insights to the business. You'll take those insights and make Whatnot 1% better every day by partnering with driving cross-functional teams to fix gaps in our product or experience that negatively impact our customers. You will also be responsible for driving team productivity through performance metrics while delivering a quality experience, ensuring our users are getting a quick, and quality experience.
  • Lead team performance and drive results in team productivity, quality, and customer experience
  • Manage, coach, encourage, and be responsible for the performance and culture of a team of agents
  • Maintain functional knowledge of, and act as a subject matter expert of processes, product, and projects related to day-to-day operations
  • Drive accountability on policies and other guidelines
  • Create new and use existing reporting to identify areas to improve performance metrics and productivity
  • Build a culture of insights generation to improve product, process, experience and overall business by reviewing Sigma & Zendesk metrics regularly
  • Identify and report on trends early and often.
  • Partner with training and content to reinforce compliance with new launches, processes, and policies.
  • Address and resolve critical issues from partners and other teams
  • Identify and call out areas of opportunity for Whatnot, helping improve or develop new processes to improve the user experience and business by understanding customer needs
  • Other ad-hoc project work as the business requires

We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our Phoenix, AZ hub.

You

People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.

A hungry individual looking to continue their career in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. Someone willing to take on any role or task, learn new skills, and be a part of building a great company. A customer service mentality with passion to reach the best possible outcome. Here's what we're hoping to see in your background:
  • You have 5+ years of support operations experience managing support KPIs such as CSAT.
  • You are a leader with a strong desire and natural ability to motivate a team, set and achieve targets, and manage career growth and team performance
  • You have driven operational excellence, quality improvements, and performance-managed multiple agents.
  • You are analytical and data-driven, with experience distilling large data sets to actionable insights.
  • You are an owner, always looking for opportunities to better your work, team, product or customer experience
  • You are comfortable making tough decisions that balance the trade-off between quality and quantity
  • You have knowledge of Zendesk, data platforms such as Sigma, familiar with excel/google Sheets (Knowledge of SQL preferred)
  • You have experience in startups, marketplaces, or e-commerce (preferred)
  • You have worked within multichannel support operations (chat, email, sms, phone)
  • You have familiarity with working with large, diverse customer support, and operations organizations (preferred)
  • You have the flexibility to occasionally work shifts, holidays, and outside of standard schedule


Benefits
  • Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Work From Home Support
    • Home office setup allowance
    • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
  • Care benefits
    • Monthly allowance for wellness
    • Annual allowance towards Childcare
    • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
  • Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
    • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
  • Parental Leave
    • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

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