Customer Experience Team Lead (Weekend)

2 Months ago • All levels • Customer Service • $50,000 PA - $70,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Customer Experience Team Lead is responsible for enhancing the user experience through process improvement, order management, and problem-solving. This role involves leading a team of agents, ensuring they provide top-tier customer support and gather valuable insights. The Team Lead will analyze performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize the product and overall user experience. Responsibilities include team management, performance monitoring, handling escalations, reporting on trends, and ensuring alignment with policies and procedures. The role also involves identifying opportunities to improve customer experience and business operations.
Must have:
  • Leadership experience with strong team motivation.
  • Experience in driving operational excellence and quality improvements.
  • Analytical and data-driven approach to insights generation.
  • Comfortable making tough decisions.
  • Knowledge of Zendesk and data platforms.
  • Fluent in English.
Good to have:
  • Experience in startups, marketplaces, or e-commerce preferred.
  • Experience in multichannel support operations (chat, email, SMS).
  • Familiarity with large, diverse customer support organizations.
  • Ability to work on weekends.
  • Ability to work in an additional European language.
Perks:
  • Flexible Time off Policy
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Work From Home Support
  • Care benefits
  • Retirement; Pension plan
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
  • Parental Leave

Job Details

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot! 

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

💻 Role

The Customer Experience team is responsible for driving the best possible user experience through process improvement, order management, and problem-solving. As a leader of this team, you will be responsible for ensuring that our team of agents dig into every ticket to the lowest level of detail so they can best solve customer issues and provide critical user insights to the business. You’ll take those insights and make Whatnot 1% better every day by partnering with driving cross-functional teams to fix gaps in our product or experience that negatively impact our customers. You will also be responsible for driving team productivity through performance metrics while delivering a quality experience, ensuring our users are getting a quick, and quality experience.

  • Lead team performance and drive results in team productivity, quality, and customer experience 
  • Manage, coach, encourage, and be responsible for the performance and culture of a team of agents
  • Maintain functional knowledge of, and act as a subject matter expert of processes, product, and projects related to day-to-day operations
  • Handling escalations from the team
  • Drive accountability on policies and other guidelines
  • Create new and use existing reporting to identify areas to improve performance metrics and productivity 
  • Build a culture of insights generation to improve product, process, experience and overall business by reviewing Sigma & Zendesk metrics regularly 
  • Identify and report on trends early and often. 
  • Partner with training and content to reinforce compliance with new launches, processes, and policies. 
  • Address and resolve critical issues from partners and other teams
  • Identify and call out areas of opportunity for Whatnot, helping improve or develop new processes to improve the user experience and business by understanding customer needs
  • Other ad-hoc project work as the business requires

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Dublin, Ireland hub.

👋 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

A hungry individual looking to continue their career in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. Someone willing to take on any role or task, learn new skills, and be a part of building a great company. A customer service mentality with passion to reach the best possible outcome. As our next Customer Experience Team Lead you should have (e.g. 5+ years of support operations experience managing support KPIs such as CSAT), plus:

  • Experience as a leader with a strong desire and natural ability to motivate a team, set and achieve targets, and manage career growth and team performance
  • Experience driving operational excellence, quality improvements, and performance-managed multiple agents.
  • An analytical and data-driven approach, with experience distilling large data sets to actionable insights.
  • You are an owner, always looking for opportunities to better your work, team, product or customer experience
  • You are comfortable making tough decisions that balance the trade-off between quality and quantity
  • Knowledge of Zendesk, data platforms such as Sigma, familiar with excel/google Sheets
  • Experience in startups, marketplaces, or e-commerce preferred
  • Experience working within multichannel support operations (chat, email, sms) 
  • You have familiarity with working with large, diverse customer support, and operations organizations preferred
  • You have the flexibility to work weekends
  • Fluent English (with the ability to work in an additional European language being an advantage) 

💰Compensation

€50,000/year to €70,000/year + benefits + equity.

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

🎁 Benefits

  • Flexible Time off Policy
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Work From Home Support
    • Home office setup allowance
    • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
  • Care benefits
    • Monthly allowance for wellness
    • Annual allowance towards Childcare
    • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
  • Retirement; Pension plan
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
    • We expect all employees to actively use the product!
  • Parental Leave
    • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

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