Full-Time
Director – Customer Support
Posted on 4/19/2024
Unified marketing automation for personalized communication
Consumer Software
Senior, Expert
Cambridge, MA, USA
Required Skills
Sales
Communications
Zendesk
Salesforce
Marketing
Customer Service
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides
Requirements
- 10+ years of Customer Support experience
- 5+ years managing managers or team leads of a Customer Support Team in a high growth SaaS company
- Experience in marketing or advising customers on marketing strategy
- Accountable for productivity and customer sentiment metric achievement
- Financial accountability and responsibility associated with cost to service support metrics
- Demonstrated success in both business and leadership roles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
- A passion for creative problem solving for customers and internal teams
- Strong leadership skills dedicated to helping others develop
- Self-motivated, eager to learn and thrive in a collaborative environment
- Capable of adapting quickly to changing priorities
- Analytical and driven to achieve quantitative and qualitative targets
- Experience with or able to quickly pick-up (a plus): Microsoft Office Suite, G-Suite, Google Sheets, PowerPoint, Zendesk, and Salesforce; DNS, IPs and other networking concepts, APIs; Email marketing platforms and E-Commerce platforms
Responsibilities
- Oversee performance management processes for their entire business unit
- Responsible for approving hiring and attrition processes
- Hires and develops new managers; coaching through effective leadership
- Communicate, motivate, and inspire employees on the team
- Create an inclusive culture on your team
- Oversee workforce distribution to ensure optimal customer coverage and team balance
- Recruit, interview, hire, and train new staff
- Oversee the daily workflow of the department
- Provide constructive and timely performance evaluations
- Drive value for customers by helping them achieve their business and technical outcomes
- Define & ensure clarity around priorities and goals for their entire functional area
- Provide guidance and support to direct reports
- Operationalize and improve processes and documents for the functional group
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to mitigate customer risk
- Continuously provide input to scale and improve internal processes as well as customer support offerings
- Responsible for execution & attainment of all 2024/2025 strategy and operation goals
- Guide the talent identification and development processes for their region
- Work across functions with peers in other groups to ensure collaboration for shared goals
- Responsible for communication to leadership and peers
- Work with executive leadership and other peers for strategy development and execution planning
- Evaluate and measure customer satisfaction to develop and implement plans for continuous improvement
- Communicate financial and goal results and key performance indicators to direct reports
- Responsible for the planning and directing of the business function
- Establish operational objectives for their business unit
- Proactively and successfully partners with key people in marketing, sales, and product
- Leverage data and objective measures to design and make key business decisions
- Results Driven by ensuring data is leveraged to make all decisions
- Focused on the key strategies and execution of the business unit
- Facilitating goal-level creation for the broader function
- Ability to analyze issues and problem solve in an objective and scalable way
Klaviyo provides a unified marketing automation platform for personalized email, SMS, and push notifications, leveraging advanced segmentation, behavior-based automation, AI-driven optimization, and targeted list growth tools, supported by over 300 tech integrations.
Company Stage
IPO
Total Funding
$1.5B
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts
Founded
2012
Growth & Insights
Headcount