Customer Experience Team Lead

Whatnot•Phoenix, AZ

14h•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

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)
Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our Phoenix, AZ hub.

Nice To Haves

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)

Responsibilities

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

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
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.