Role: Customer Support Manager
Location: Austin, TX
Onsite Commitment
Role Overview: As Head of Customer Support, you will lead a team of customer support specialists both at HQ and via our third party partnerships, ensuring they provide a world-class support experience for our customers. This is a key role in charge of leading team performance, developing support strategies, and fostering a customer-first culture within our rapidly growing organization. You’ll play a critical role in shaping how we support our customers and directly impact our ability to scale efficiently.
Who You Are:
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You're optimistic and positive. You give vitality and don't take it.
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You have humility and are never tired of learning.
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You appreciate direct communication and don't take things personally.
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You're resilient through constant change and high-growth, and can pivot on the fly. Our business is constantly evolving and so our priorities do, too. What you worked on last month may not be what you work on today, and that excites you. You’re not looking for a boring job.
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You can embrace the chaos and execute on big ideas from scratch.
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You are excited to tackle problems head on and the responsibility to own your piece in our success is motivating for you.
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You want to win and be a part of a team of A players who want to do the same.
What You’ll Be Doing:
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Drive Operational Excellence: Oversee day-to-day support operations, ensuring that the team meets and exceeds key performance indicators (KPIs) such as response time, resolution time, customer satisfaction, and more.
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Lead, Inspire, and Develop: Manage and mentor a team of customer support specialists, providing guidance and support to help them deliver the best possible customer experiences. Drive a high-performance culture by setting clear expectations, providing regular feedback, and creating growth opportunities within the team.
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Strategic Process Improvement: Identify, design, and implement processes and policies to improve support efficiency and the overall customer experience. Use data-driven insights to refine and enhance workflows and tools, focusing on reducing friction points for customers.
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Supervise Escalations: Act as the point of contact for complex or escalated customer issues, ensuring timely and effective resolutions that align with our commitment to customer satisfaction.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams, including Product, Marketing, and Engineering, to advocate for the customer and drive product improvements based on feedback and support interactions.
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Training & Development: Develop and maintain training programs to ensure support specialists are equipped with up-to-date product knowledge, technical skills, and best practices in customer service.
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Partner Management: Own the relationship with our third-party customer support team that handles lower tiered customer support tickets.
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Performance Analytics: Leverage support metrics and data to measure team performance, identify trends, and make data-informed decisions to enhance service quality and efficiency.
What we're looking for in you:
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Experience: 5+ years of experience managing a customer support team, preferably in a high-growth, technology-focused environment.
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Management: Proven track record of building and leading high-performing support teams, with a focus on coaching, development, and team engagement.
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Customer-Centric Mindset: A passion for delivering impressive customer support, with a deep awareness of what drives customer satisfaction and loyalty.
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Data-Driven: Deep analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate it into actionable strategies for improving team performance and customer experience.
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Problem-Solver: Comfortable handling escalations, making critical decisions quickly, and finding creative solutions to complex problems autonomously.
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Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to articulate technical issues to both customers and internal teams successfully.
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Tech-Savvy: Comprehension of customer support software, CRM tools, and an aptitude for learning new technologies.
What We Offer:
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Competitive salary and benefits package.
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Opportunities for career growth and development within a dynamic and innovative company.
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A cooperative and inclusive work environment that values diversity.
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The chance to be part of a revolutionary mission to change the way the world connects.
What We Do
Builders leverages highly skilled distributed engineering teams with Latin America’s top software talent. Connecting top startups, mid-size companies and large enterprises across North America and beyond with superior tech talent needed to innovate, compete and excel in their field of business. Our deep expertise spreads across many areas, such as Data Science, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, DevOps, UX/UI Designers, Product Managers, and many more.
Builders handles talent assessment, on-boarding, management, retention and continuous improvement. We provide unparalleled support, training, workshops, company events, benefits and other perks that make it fun and incredibly rewarding for everyone joining our team.
Our team has extensive experience, deep relationships, an extensive network and a growing database, which make us a valuable partner for our clients. Builders prides itself on making the perfect match as easy as possible. All while letting you get back to building.
