[Hiring] Customer Support Team Lead @Workstream

Role Description

Workstream is looking for an exceptional team member to join our Customer Support team as a Customer Support Team Lead. The Customer Support Team Lead will lead a team of 8-13 Customer Support Specialists who support our customers through phone, chat, and email. The role is responsible for employee development, focusing on competency and skill building, and incorporating a business continuity plan that supports seamless knowledge transfer and drives high levels of employee performance and engagement. This includes coaching and providing actionable feedback to team members to promote career development and exceed support standards, measures, and goals. The lead is expected to escalate trends and urgent issues, with strong proposals to fix.

Day in the Life:

• Responsible for team performance and retention.
• Own building and optimizing processes for driving internal efficiencies, issue resolution, customer satisfaction, and SLA success.
• Ensure the success of each Customer Support Specialist and the overall Customer Support leadership team.
• Conduct weekly 1:1s with each team member to level them up within their role and discuss role-specific topics such as effective and efficient issue resolution, navigating difficult conversations with customers, tools navigation, troubleshooting, etc.
• Participate in functional Management discussions to enable consistent calibration on processes, best practices, and change management that may affect people managers or the broader Customer Support team.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of professional experience in the BPO, shared services, or similar industry, 2 years of which have been spent on a leadership capacity/level.
• Strong preference for candidates with experience in managing voice accounts, non-voice accounts handling SMS, chat, and email interactions, and handling both voice and non-voice accounts.
• Previous experience in handling a team with sales and customer service focus metrics: CSAT, Sales, AHT, Quality.
• Highly organized with a problem-solving & data-driven mindset.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to become a product expert and advocate for the Workstream platform.
• Ability to quantify, analyze, and share findings related to project impact.
• A willingness to experiment rapidly, make mistakes, and learn.

Benefits

• Permanently Remote.
• Pay wired directly to your bank account.
• $50 Monthly Stipend.
• Annual Bonus.
• Performance-based bonuses.
• Flexible PTO.
• Enjoy company time off during some of the major US and PH Holidays.
• Company-issued Device.
• Career fast track for performers and internal mobility.
• Learn from a team of Stanford, MIT, Google, and Harvard alumni.

Company Description

Workstream is a mission-driven company building the all-in-one HR, payroll, and hiring platform for managing the hourly workforce. There are 2.7 billion hourly workers, making up 80% of the global workforce, but this market has been heavily underserved by technology and deserves better. Workstream has been purpose-built for the hourly workforce from day one so that these businesses and their employees can thrive.

Our customers include leading brands from multiple sectors, including Burger King, Carl's Jr./Hardee's, IHOP, KFC, and Culvers. We are a high growth series B company and quickly expanding our product portfolio to deliver on our vision. We are backed by legendary VCs and industry experts like Founders Fund, BOND, and Coatue.