Nov 6, 2022

CUSTOMER SUPPORT MANAGER, WORK FROM HOME

Are you an experienced support leader who inspires others, thinks creatively and strategically, prioritizes people and customers? Do you have a knack for turning vision and strategy into actionable results? During the expansion stage of the business life cycle, have you steered additional support groups to the next level of excellence? Are you pragmatist with a firm commitment to strategy, execution, and outcomes? We are confident that this role will seem really exciting to you if you said "yes" to any of these questions. As the customer support manager, you will oversee our support engineers as they provide our clients with a great customer experience, reduce their effort, and enable them to swiftly and simply enjoy the benefits of our products. You will join our Development team, which is spread across multiple countries and continent. To facilitate this international teamwork, we would prefer you to live in a time zone between UTC+2 to UTC-7. We are so curious to know which new country will be added to our distributed team map! 🌍

CUSTOMER SUPPORT MANAGER, WORK FROM HOME | visajobshq.com

You will simplify and optimize support operations to effectively, efficiently, and fiscally deliver and scale without significantly increasing headcount

We currently have a culturally-diverse remote team of 16 friendly and talented support engineers located around the globe. The company continues to grow and we’ll need to scale our support to match, while maintaining our close-knit company culture and attention to customers.

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What You Will Be Responsible For

Here is a list describing the focal areas you'll be responsible for in this role:

  • Overseeing the day-to-day running of support according to our established vision and values

  • Looking for ways to improve support processes, workflows and efficiency

  • Making sure all of our support channels are adequately covered

  • Ensuring a consistently high quality of support across the team

  • Conducting 1-on-1 meetings with each teammate

  • Running our weekly support team meeting

  • Liaising with C-level

  • Trackings statistics to determine when new hires should be made

  • Tracking statistics on overall support performance

  • Embrace an "innovation mindset" to experiment with new technologies and ways of working that result in increased operating efficiencies, effectiveness, and team happiness

  • Liaising with product team on issues

  • Overseeing the training/onboarding of new hires


 

What Do You Need To Excel at This Job

Here is a short list of the key attributes you'll need to excel in this role:

  • You are an operations architect and optimizer

  • You are a performance and excellence maximizer

  • You get the right things done

  • You deliver the right results

  • You are fiscally pragmatic

Unshakeable focus on execution, results, and strategy.

You possess an unshakeable focus on execution, results, and strategy. Your eyes are focused on the vision of where we are going while your feet are firmly planted in daily to ensure your people are on course and moving towards that vision and the results we must achieve.

You are data-driven and masterful at developing the right set of metrics. You know that the right set of metrics is your compass that are a compass, helping everyone to know if we are on track.


 

Operations and performance maximizer.

Through the years, you've refined your operational approach to maximize performance and excellence. You get the right things done and deliver the right results. You have an eye for identifying and removing friction from the support process (e.g. developing and implementing internal service tooling to automate processes).


 

Champion continuous learning and improvement.

You advocate and champion continuous learning and improvement. You see mistakes, bad ratings, and missteps as opportunities to learn, improve, and grow. You encourage everyone around you to embrace these principles as part of your strategy to achieve results and better serve our customers.


 

Being yourself

The WP Media team is diverse and composed of people from all over the world. Respect, collaboration, and inclusivity are some of our core values (more on this below). Every day of work is an exciting opportunity to get in touch with fantastic people who will enrich your cultural and professional background.


 

Do you want to know three other things we appreciate about our candidates?

  • A startup mentality
     
    You are doer, you are adaptable and you like to evolve in a fast-paced environment.

  • Previous remote job experience.
     
    Slack will be your virtual office, where all the life of the company takes place.

  • The involvement in the WordPress community.
     
    We support our teammates to attend and/or speak at WordCamps and volunteer within the community.