We’re the technology leader building the modern home management platform. Today, millions of people use Thumbtack to effortlessly manage their homes. We help them confidently know what to do, when to do it and who to hire. 

Our goal is simple: to be the only platform homeowners need to fix, maintain and improve their homes. As a long-term partner for homeowners, our promise is to turn what was once confusing and intimidating into something straightforward — and a lot less stressful.

At Thumbtack, we're not just creating a new era of homeownership. We’re supporting local economies and building stronger communities. Each day, we connect local professionals across America with busy homeowners so they can grow their businesses. 

Thumbtack is for everyone. Our customers and pros come from all walks of life and every county in the country. We want our team to reflect that. If you come from an underrepresented background in tech, we strongly encourage you to apply. 

Our North Star is bright and our ambitions are big. We’ve been at this for over a decade, but the way we see it: we’re just getting started.

Thumbtack by the Numbers

• Available in all 3,143 U.S. counties.
• Nearly 4.5 million customers in the last 12 months
• Hundreds of thousands of local professionals on our platform
• 65 million projects started on Thumbtack
• Over 7 million 5-star reviews left for stellar pros

About the Customer Experience Team

Today, millions of customers use Thumbtack to find and hire small businesses across the US. Named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2018 by Fast Company, Thumbtack is a highly dynamic product that’s also building local economies and stronger communities. One of the key factors for our ongoing success is #CustomerObsession.

We focus on providing a great experience to our users and prioritizing the most important work first. The Customer Support team is composed of customer-obsessed team members who are engaged, innovative, and who partner with our pros and customers from start to finish to resolve their concerns.

About the Role

The Customer Support Team Manager will be heading a team of Customer Support Specialists responsible for making sure that all professionals get best-in-class support whenever they contact our non-voice Customer Support channels (SMS, Chat, and Email) for any concern. The main responsibilities of a Customer Support Team Manager are making sure that the team runs smoothly, KPIs and individual targets are met, team members are engaged and live up to our Thumbtack values, company policies are implemented and continuous improvement of operations and processes are ensured. By effectively managing and leading the team, you help ensure that Thumbtack customers and pros are set up for success.

Responsibilities

• People Management
  • Performance & Development
    • Hold regular coaching sessions, huddles, calibrations and team meetings
    • Manage, coach and mentor your team to handle contacts correctly and efficiently. Handle escalated cases as necessary. 
    • Create and facilitate customized development plan for every team member to enable them achieve their full potential
    • Complete specialist scorecards and provide regular feedback to them
    • Address any performance issues
  • Culture & Ways of Work
    • Communication
      • Communicate and cascade timely and concisely all the updates, company policies, events, programs, and all other information that are relevant to the team members
      • Make the team always updated of the company policies and implement them fairly, objectively and consistently
      • Provide feedback and hold employee conversations when necessary
      • Manage conflict and maintain strong teamwork, respect and trust among members
    • Engagement
      • Be an ambassador and live up Thumbtack values
      • Foster high morale, engagement, and camaraderie within the team
      • Nurture a psychologically safe environment and culture of proactively surfacing findings, giving suggestions, and speaking up ideas
  • Administrative
    • Create, coordinate and deliver performance reviews and compensation conversations for every team member 
    • Ensure compliance to and completion of coaching documents for team members.
    • Ensure timekeeping details of your team are accurate and updated
• Operations Management
  • Manage the day-to-day operations: 
    • Set team members’ expectations, monitor, and support them to meet their KPIs and other operational metrics; coach team members when needed
    • Provide constant support to the specialists including handling of escalations or edge cases
    • Report and manage any technical issues encountered by the team affecting their work
    • Manage the staffing when necessary
    • Work with the relevant cross-functional teams when needed to ensure smooth operations
    • Monitor and report unusual trends and anything that could affect the operations
  • Continuous improvement
    • Find ways and means to improve KPIs, guidelines and processes
    • Write, manage, improve and update task guidelines and SOPs
    • Look at trends and surface insights that could minimize/eliminate risks on or improve the operations
  • Work on weekly reports and other related reports.
  • Function as a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Committee member to ensure readiness and proper execution of BCP
  • Other responsibilities:
    • Participate and contribute to the quarterly team planning sessions
    • Participate and contribute to the team policies and to the new initiatives created/built by the management group of TPH
    • Participate in interviewing candidates during CS Specialist hiring
    • Participate in improving and facilitating operational processes and infrastructure (e.g. onboarding process improvement and facilitation, dashboard and report improvements, etc.)
    • Accept and effectively manage new projects for the CS team or for TPH
• Stakeholder Management
  • Build and maintain stakeholder relationships both onshore and offshore on a daily basis
  • Work with the partners from San Francisco and Salt Lake offices to improve policies and processes
  • Present weekly metrics in global meetings and provide operational and business insights
  • Work cross-collaboratively with enablement teams from the Philippines (Training, QA, Workforce Management, Analytics, HR)

Team Structure and Inter-Team Working Relationships

• Manage a team of 10-15 specialists 
• Collaborate with business partners in San Francisco and Salt Lake to ensure alignment in processes and guidelines.
• Attend weekly meetings with global teams to read out your team’s performance (via ops dashboard) and report any operational and business insights. 
• Reports to the Sr Manager for Philippines CS Operations who would be accountable in ensuring that the expectations and all necessary metrics are met. 
• The Customer Service & Support group in the Philippines is a part of the larger Customer Service & Support global group, with business counterparts in both Salt Lake and San Francisco.

Must-Have Qualifications

If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.

• At least 4 years of professional experience in the BPO, shared services, or similar industry, 3 years of which have been spent on a leadership capacity/level
• Strong preference for those with the following experience: 
  • Working and managing both voice account and non-voice account that handles SMS, Chat and Email contacts
  • Previous experience in handling a team with customer service focus metrics - CSAT, Resolution Rate, AHT
  • Working on operations or projects which involve supporting and resolving issues in online marketplaces, communities, e-commerce, and or consumer/app products
• Ability to communicate effectively in English
• Willingness to work during day, mid or graveyard shift and rotating rest days 
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced tech startup environment

Nice-To-Have Qualifications

• Experience using Salesforce and Teleopti is preferred but not required
• Experience in project management
• Background and/or training in process improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma
• Background and/or training in COPC

More About Us

Thumbtack is a technology leader building the modern home management platform. Through the Thumbtack app, homeowners can effortlessly manage their homes — confidently knowing what to do, when to do it, and who to hire. Bringing the $500 billion home services industry online, Thumbtack empowers millions of homeowners to fix, maintain, and improve their most valuable asset. 

Founded in 2008, Thumbtack is backed by over $500 million in funding from folks that include Sequoia Capital, CapitalG, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Investment Partners, Baillie Gifford. 

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Thumbtack is a virtual-first company, meaning you can live and work from any one of our approved locations across the United States, Ontario or the Philippines. When it is safe to gather, we will begin to host in-person events on a regular basis. Remote employees will be expected to travel occasionally for these events to a Thumbtack library or offsite team-building location. In cities with 5+ employees, we are establishing local communities, where employees can gather for local events. Additionally, employees in the San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Toronto and Manila areas will have opt-in access to communal workspace at one of our Thumbtack libraries. 

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Thumbtack embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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