Manager, Customer Support

Intercom Intercom · Enterprise · Chicago, IL · Customer Support

Manager for a Customer Support team at an AI Customer Agent company. Responsibilities include people management, driving CS results, building solutions for CS goals, cross-functional projects, and process improvement. Requires experience in customer support, team leadership, and a strong interest in AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Onboard, develop, coach, and lead a team of ~10 inboxing teammates. Promote a team culture of belonging and of owners and problem solvers
  2. Motivate and ensure the CS team is deeply aligned and committed to Fin’s strategy, vision, and core values
  3. Be responsible for and drive first response times and customer satisfaction within your team and across the CS organization.
  4. Identify, create solutions, and execute on workflows and projects to achieve CS Org goals and deliver a remarkable customer experience. This is start up environment and we’re constantly testing and learning new things
  5. partner with marketing & sales, and R&D as the voice of CS and our customers.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years experience working in a customer support/service capacity - SaaS or technology company highly desired
  • Minimum of 3 year experience in a role where you directly led and managed a team of people and built a strong team culture
  • Strong communication / writing skills and interpersonal skills. You will be leading and collaborating with your global peers async most of the time
  • Previous experience managing a team to metrics, hosting regular 1:1s, performance reviews, performance improvement plans and running team meetings
  • Customer focus - you obsess over the customer experience and proven track record of building customer obsession into customer interactions, processes, and culture
  • Comprehensive knowledge of and interest in the technology industry
  • A sense of optimism, flexibility, resilience, grit, and creativity

Nice to have

  • Ability to recognize patterns in data and provide recommendations based on those patterns

What the JD emphasized

  • exceptional customer service skills
  • solid technical experience
  • interest in AI
  • proven experience successfully leading and contributing to a distributed customer support team at a SaaS organization
  • Ability to recognize patterns in data and provide recommendations based on those patterns