Customer Operations Lead

Hercules

$100K — $250K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in customer operations or support in a SaaS setup
  • Deep knowledge of billing and payment processes, including refunds and disputes
  • Exceptional written communication skills for customer interactions
  • Strong triage abilities for discerning issue types and routing
  • Familiarity with various tools like ticketing systems and CRMs
  • Capability to advocate for process improvement and manage SLAs effectively

Responsibilities

  • Manage billing operations including refunds, disputes, and plan changes
  • Provide non-technical support when AI resources fall short
  • Triage customer issues and escalate to Technical Support with detailed context
  • Define and manage service level agreements (SLAs) and customer outcome metrics
  • Prioritize and handle escalated accounts and incidents with cross-department coordination
  • Lead light commercial tasks by coordinating renewals and identifying upsell opportunities
  • Establish and oversee regular operational reviews with a focus on continuous improvement

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage including vision and dental
  • Use of any AI productivity tools that suit your workflow
  • Flexible vacation policy allowing you to take the time you need
  • Office-provided daily lunches, dinners, and snacks
  • Commitment to fostering an environment for your best career work
Full Job Description
What are we looking for?

We're hiring a Customer Operations Lead to run day-to-day customer operations and ensure fast, high-quality outcomes. You will own non-technical support, billing ops, triage into technical support, and a light support-to-success motion for renewals and upsells.

You should be:
  • Operationally excellent: crisp processes, strong prioritization, and reliable execution.
  • Customer-obsessed: you drive outcomes, not just ticket closure.
  • Calm under pressure: strong escalation judgment and clear communication.
  • Commercially aware: you can spot expansion opportunities and coordinate the right follow-up.


What will you lead?
  • Billing operations: refunds, disputes/chargebacks, invoices, plan changes, account migrations, access issues
  • Non-technical support: handle requests when AI support fails or users need human help
  • Triage and routing: classify issues, gather context, and escalate to Technical Support/Engineering with clean repro details
  • SLAs and outcomes: define and run response SLAs, backlog health, and customer outcome accountability
  • Escalations + prioritization: manage hot accounts, incidents, and cross-team prioritization with engineering/product
  • Light commercial motion: coordinate renewals/upsells, identify expansion signals, and hand off to sales/success when needed
  • Operating cadence: weekly reviews, tooling, macros, playbooks, and continuous improvement across support ops


What skills do we expect you to have?
  • Experience running customer operations or support ops in a SaaS environment
  • Strong understanding of billing and payments workflows (refunds, disputes, subscriptions)
  • Excellent written communication: clear, fast, and professional customer-facing responses
  • Strong triage instincts: can separate billing vs product vs technical issues and route correctly
  • Comfort with tooling: ticketing systems, CRMs, internal dashboards, and basic analytics
  • Ability to drive process: SLAs, escalation paths, playbooks, and cross-functional coordination


Is Hercules in-office or remote?

Hercules founding team works in-office in San Francisco (Kearny and Bush). We have a very strong preference for in office. We are open to remote for exceptional candidates in US time zones who would be willing/able to travel to the office regularly.

What are Hercules' benefits?
  • Healthcare, vision, and dental
  • User whatever AI productivity tools you'd like
  • Take what you need vacation policy
  • Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
  • We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here


What's the compensation?

$100k-$250k + equity (depends on seniority, equity, and location)

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