Customer Support Head

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Gurugram, Haryana, IND
In-Office
Expert/Leader
eCommerce • Information Technology
The Role
Leads Lenskart’s global omnichannel customer support organization across online, retail, and eye-care services. Owns support strategy, P&L, operational performance, customer metrics, automation, tooling, crisis management, workforce development, and BPO partnerships. The role manages large distributed teams, improves customer journeys through data-driven root-cause analysis, and partners with Product and Engineering on self-service and AI support solutions.
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Head – Customer Support

Customer Experience Operations

Lenskart   |   Gurugram, Haryana   |   Full-Time

About Lenskart

Lenskart is India's largest omnichannel eyewear company, on a mission to solve the vision problem for 2 billion people across the world. Since Peyush Bansal founded Lenskart in 2010, the company has grown into a vertically integrated eyewear ecosystem — spanning e-commerce, 2,700+ retail stores across India and international markets (Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, the Middle East and beyond), in-house design and manufacturing, and pioneering innovations like Home Eye Checkups and 3D virtual try-on.

Lenskart serves 30 million+ customers, crossed ₹6,650+ crore in FY25 revenue, turned solidly profitable, and is now on the path to a public listing. Behind that scale sits one non-negotiable promise: every customer, whether they bought online, in a franchise store, or through a home eye-test visit, gets a seamless, trustworthy experience — and that promise lives and dies with Customer Support.

About the Role

We're looking for a Head of Customer Support to own and scale the customer support charter for all of Lenskart — across India and international geographies, across every channel (voice, chat, email, social, WhatsApp, in-store escalations), and across every touchpoint in the journey (order, delivery, fitting, warranty, returns, subscription, and eye-care services).based out of Lenskart's Gurugram headquarters, with full P&L ownership of support cost, quality, and customer outcomes.

You'll lead a large, multi-layered organization (in-house team + BPO/outsourced partners), sit at the table for product and policy decisions that affect millions of customers, and be the voice of the customer inside a company built on the "customer-first, always" philosophy that Lenskart is known for.

What You'll Own

Strategy & Leadership

  • Define and drive the overall vision, strategy, and roadmap for Lenskart's global customer support function

  • Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing leadership team across team leads, quality, training, and workforce management

  • Own the support P&L: cost-per-contact, outsourcing mix, and budget planning across in-house and BPO/partner teams

  • Represent the voice of the customer at the leadership table, influencing product, supply chain, retail, and policy decisions

Operations & Delivery

  • Run day-to-day support operations across voice, chat, email, social, and WhatsApp for both online and offline (2,700+ store network) customers

  • Own key metrics: CSAT, NPS, first-response time, resolution TAT, cost-per-ticket, and escalation/repeat-contact rates

  • Design and continuously improve SOPs, SLAs, and escalation matrices across order issues, delivery, warranty/returns, prescription and fitting complaints, and eye-care appointments

  • Lead crisis and surge management (festive sales, new launches, service outages) with clear playbooks

Tech, Data & Automation

  • Partner closely with Product and Engineering to build AI-led and self-serve support (chatbots, IVR, WhatsApp bots) that reduces contact volume while improving resolution quality

  • Use data to identify root causes of customer friction and drive them upstream into product, logistics, and retail fixes rather than just resolving downstream tickets

  • Own support tooling strategy — CRM/helpdesk platforms, quality monitoring, and workforce management systems

Team & Culture

  • Build a culture of ownership, empathy, and speed across a large distributed workforce

  • Set up hiring, training, and career-progression frameworks for a support organization operating at Lenskart's scale

  • Manage vendor/BPO partnerships — commercials, performance governance, and capacity planning

What We're Looking For
  • 8–12 years of experience in customer support/customer experience leadership, with at least 4+ years leading large-scale support operations (500+ FTE across in-house + outsourced teams), ideally in e-commerce, D2C, retail, fintech, or consumer tech

  • Proven experience managing omnichannel support (voice + digital) at high volume and building/scaling teams across multiple geographies

  • Strong data and analytical orientation — comfortable owning metrics like CSAT, NPS, AHT, and cost-per-contact, and translating them into action

  • Experience partnering with Product/Tech teams to drive automation, self-serve, and AI-based support solutions

  • Track record of building and leading large teams (direct + matrixed), including managing BPO/outsourcing partnerships and commercials

  • Exceptional stakeholder management — this role sits close to leadership and needs to influence product, ops, and retail teams without direct authority

  • Structured, first-principles problem solver who's equally comfortable in a strategy conversation and a live-fire escalation

  • MBA or equivalent experience preferred, not mandatory

Why This Role Is Interesting

Scale that's rare in India: You'd own support for a brand serving 30 million+ customers across 2,700+ stores and multiple countries — few CX leadership roles in India operate at this scale.

A company still moving fast: Lenskart is profitable, growing, and heading toward an IPO — you'd be building the support org for its next phase, not maintaining a legacy one.

Real influence, not just ticket management: With home eye tests, 3D try-on, and in-house manufacturing all feeding into the support funnel, this role directly shapes product and ops decisions — it's a seat at the table, not a call-center management job.

Mission that's easy to believe in: Lenskart's founding purpose — solving the vision problem for 2 billion underserved people — gives the role a clear "why" beyond the metrics.

Skills Required

  • 8–12 years of experience in customer support or customer experience leadership
  • At least 4 years leading large-scale support operations with 500+ FTE across in-house and outsourced teams
  • Experience managing omnichannel voice and digital support at high volume across multiple geographies
  • Strong analytical orientation and experience owning CSAT, NPS, AHT, and cost-per-contact metrics
  • Experience partnering with Product and Technology teams on automation, self-service, and AI-based support
  • Experience building and leading large direct and matrixed teams
  • Experience managing BPO or outsourcing partnerships, commercial terms, performance governance, and capacity planning
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and cross-functional influence
  • Structured, first-principles problem-solving ability in strategic and escalation contexts
  • MBA or equivalent experience
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The Company
HQ: Gurgaon
9,675 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Lenskart is Asia’s largest eyewear company serving 40 Million people - helping them see better and lead better quality lives. We have more than 1500 omnichannel stores across 175 cities in India, Singapore and Dubai. Our aim is to serve One Billion eyes by 2025 globally. And in this journey, we want to go beyond vision correction to transform the way people see and experience the world. That’s our new purpose - and we can only get there through cutting-edge technology and exceptional people.

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