Sr. Specialist, Customer Care (bilingual - English)

PayPal PayPal · Fintech · São Paulo, SP, Brazil · Customer Care

This role focuses on customer support, acting as an escalation point, mentoring agents, and improving processes within PayPal's customer care operations. It involves resolving complex issues, ensuring compliance, and enhancing customer experience through expert guidance and process refinement.

What you'd actually do

  1. Solve complex customer issues by leveraging specialized expertise to diagnose and resolve challenging problems.
  2. Manage escalations by handling high-impact cases that require advanced problem-solving and policy knowledge.
  3. Ensure compliance and security by applying regulations and best practices to protect customer data and mitigate risks.
  4. Reduce customer friction by improving self-service tools, analyzing trends, and addressing common pain points.
  5. Mentor and support teammates by coaching agents, sharing insights, and reinforcing best practices.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years relevant experience
  • Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience

Nice to have

  • Demonstrated ability to provide structured coaching and performance feedback that drives measurable quality improvement and operational consistency
  • Strong understanding of quality assurance methodologies, calibration practices, and root cause analysis within customer support or legal operations environments
  • Experience maintaining and improving SOPs, process documentation, and knowledge management resources across cross-functional teams
  • Ability to interpret complex policies and translate them into clear operational guidance for frontline specialists and leaders
  • Proven capability to identify operational risks, process gaps, and compliance concerns, with a proactive approach to remediation and continuous improvement
  • Experience partnering with global stakeholders across Legal, Compliance, Operations, Risk, and Technical teams in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong analytical and reporting skills with the ability to identify quality trends and provide actionable recommendations to leadership
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and support teams through change and process updates
  • Experience supporting onboarding, training, and upskilling initiatives through mentorship, shadowing, and knowledge transfer activities
  • Bilingual (English)

What the JD emphasized

  • specialized expertise
  • advanced problem-solving
  • policy knowledge
  • compliance
  • security
  • customer data
  • mitigate risks
  • customer friction
  • self-service tools
  • analyzing trends
  • common pain points
  • mentor
  • support teammates
  • coaching agents
  • sharing insights
  • reinforcing best practices
  • enhance processes
  • identifying inefficiencies
  • recommending improvements
  • streamline operations
  • lead self-help initiatives
  • strategies to expand and optimize customer self-service capabilities
  • support platform migration
  • smooth transition to a multi-tenancy self-help system
  • identify customer experience gaps
  • research
  • data analysis
  • driving meaningful improvements
  • own key metrics and strategy
  • leading initiatives
  • enhance customer support operations
  • customer satisfaction
  • structured coaching
  • performance feedback
  • measurable quality improvement
  • operational consistency
  • quality assurance methodologies
  • calibration practices
  • root cause analysis
  • customer support
  • legal operations
  • maintaining and improving SOPs
  • process documentation
  • knowledge management resources
  • cross-functional teams
  • interpret complex policies
  • clear operational guidance
  • frontline specialists
  • leaders
  • identify operational risks
  • process gaps
  • compliance concerns
  • proactive approach to remediation
  • continuous improvement
  • partnering with global stakeholders
  • Legal
  • Compliance
  • Operations
  • Risk
  • Technical teams
  • fast-paced environment
  • analytical and reporting skills
  • identify quality trends
  • actionable recommendations
  • leadership
  • communication and stakeholder management skills
  • influence and support teams
  • change and process updates
  • supporting onboarding
  • training
  • upskilling initiatives
  • mentorship
  • shadowing
  • knowledge transfer activities