Head of Technical Customer Experience, US

Polymarket Polymarket · Fintech · New York, NY · CX

This role leads the US support function, transforming it into an AI-first customer experience organization. It's a player-coach role requiring hands-on technical work, including writing code, SQL, and managing the AI support agent. Responsibilities include team management, SQL analysis, AI agent tuning, incident response, and building technical integrations. The ideal candidate has experience leading customer-facing teams, expert SQL skills, hands-on AI/LLM support agent management, and Python programming.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage and grow the US support team through hiring, coaching, QA, and setting daily operational standards while introducing specialization and forward-deployed engineering practices
  2. Write and optimize SQL queries to analyze support patterns, measure AI agent performance, and turn data into decisions about what issues to prioritize fixing
  3. Own and tune our AI support agent hands-on by adjusting resolution rates, building automation workflows, creating custom responses, and setting up guardrails
  4. Lead incident response as the customer's point person during outages, managing engineering bridge calls, publishing status updates, and building repeatable playbooks
  5. Build technical integrations using REST APIs, webhooks, and Python automation that let the support team resolve issues without waiting for engineering

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years leading customer-facing teams with experience transforming support organizations, not just maintaining them
  • Expert-level SQL skills including complex joins, CTEs, window functions, and aggregations against large data warehouses
  • Hands-on AI/LLM support agent management with deep understanding of resolution metrics, automation workflows, and performance tuning
  • Python programming experience for building automations, data analysis, and API integrations
  • Technical troubleshooting ability to read logs, API responses, and traces well enough to root-cause issues alongside engineering teams
  • Exceptional written communication that is firm, empathetic, and concise under pressure
  • Availability for escalations within 30 minutes including nights and weekends

Nice to have

  • Experience with regulated trading platforms or financial services customer support
  • DeFi and crypto wallet knowledge including on-chain mechanics and wallet integrations
  • Trading platform outage remediation or "make-whole" program experience
  • Modern AI-first support stack familiarity with build, test, deploy cycles for AI agents

What the JD emphasized

  • Engineering ability is a hard requirement here, not a nice-to-have
  • Hands-on AI/LLM support agent management
  • Expert-level SQL skills

Other signals

  • AI-first customer experience organization
  • Own our AI support agent
  • measure AI agent performance
  • Hands-on AI/LLM support agent management