Team Lead, Payment Experience, Americas

Flywire • Boston, MA

2d • Remote

About The Position

The Payment Experience Team Lead in the Americas will be the first point of contact at Flywire, equipped with broad knowledge of Flywire's core business capabilities. This role involves troubleshooting payer problems, liaising with various internal teams, and driving forward the regional Payment Experience Team. The Team Lead will serve as a content expert for Flywire payment offerings and products, acting as the key escalation point for Payment Experience Associates & Specialists and the primary voice for payment experience. This role supports Client & Payment Experience Managers in leading the regional team, providing feedback on training needs, development plans, and payer experience improvements to ensure a frictionless experience for payers. The Team Lead will also support the regional & global Client & Payment Experience function through project work as necessary.

Requirements

• 2+ years of team supervision experience with at least 5 years in a customer support facing role, strong people management skills
• Excellent written and verbal English language skills, additional language (eg. French, Portuguese) is a plus
• Customer oriented mindset, able to listen, understand, and find a solution to the most difficult customer requests with professionalism and empathy
• Comfortable with multi-tasking; able to work under intense pace and high pressure
• Proactive and ambitious learner, able to quickly adapt to the fast changing requirements, remain organized through lots of change and updated materials
• The desire to develop leadership skills, to drive a team’s success and support teammates within the role’s scope, being comfortable and composed when either giving or receiving feedback
• Self motivated and self disciplined, take ownership & accountability (solving enquiries from start to finish)
• Great attention to details, sensitive to issues or potential issues and proactively seek for solutions
• Strong analytical skill, able to use data / best judgement to prioritise tasks that have the most value-add impact
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to enable effective interaction and collaboration within the team and key business stakeholders. Able to adapt the communication style to different audiences.
• Ability to work on a flexible schedule
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office suite and CRM software
• Customer service experience
• Payment related experience (banking, forex company)

Nice To Haves

• International experience

Responsibilities

• Provide solutions to complex issues for payers by phone, chat, and email with speed, professionalism and empathy
• Be the escalation point for teammates, serving as a content expert for Flywire payment offerings and products
• Be the voice of payers within Flywire escalating insight within the Client & Payment Experience (CPE) Team and beyond, using data and context to highlight areas for optimisation
• Work with the CPE Managers to design the regional Payment Experience team directions following the Global CPE direction and the company direction, proactively make plan to optimise our process, drive efficiency and scaling of manual work using data analysis
• Drive forward the regional Payment Experience Team, manage the team’s daily operations and projects execution, support team members in reaching the team goals and in their personal development
• Handle regular team administrative tasks such as the creation of monthly schedules for live contact support and scheduled tasks, weekly updates, training and quality review
• Be the main representative for regional Payment Experience Team, maintaining connection with both Regional CPE Team and other regional stakeholders for regional related new launch and training material preparation, tracking impact for the related change

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program (Meet our Execs & Global Teams)
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness, Yoga/Pilates/HIIT Classes) with Global FlyMates
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in your community and Digital Disconnect Days!
• Great Talent & Development Programs (Managers Taking Flight – for new or aspiring managers!)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed