Customer Experience Team Lead

🚀 JOIN THE FUTURE OF COMMERCE WITH WHATNOT!

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values https://www.whatnot.com/careers and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.

We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces https://a16z.com/marketplace-100/ and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America http://google.com/search?q=%231+forbes+startup+employer&oq=%231+forbes+startup+employer&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg9MgYIAhBFGD0yBggDEEUYQDIGCAQQRRhAMgYIBRBFGEDSAQg1NzM0ajBqMagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news https://blog.teamwhatnot.com/ and engineering blogs https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.


💻 ROLE

The Customer Experience team is responsible for driving the best possible user experience through process improvement, order management, and problem-solving. As a leader of this team, you will be responsible for ensuring that our team of agents dig into every ticket to the lowest level of detail so they can best solve customer issues and provide critical user insights to the business. You’ll take those insights and make Whatnot 1% better every day by partnering with driving cross-functional teams to fix gaps in our product or experience that negatively impact our customers. You will also be responsible for driving team productivity through performance metrics while delivering a quality experience, ensuring our users are getting a quick, and quality experience.

- Lead team performance and drive results in team productivity, quality, and customer experience 

- Manage, coach, encourage, and be responsible for the performance and culture of a team of agents

- Maintain functional knowledge of, and act as a subject matter expert of processes, product, and projects related to day-to-day operations

- Drive accountability on policies and other guidelines

- Create new and use existing reporting to identify areas to improve performance metrics and productivity 

- Build a culture of insights generation to improve product, process, experience and overall business by reviewing Sigma & Zendesk metrics regularly 

- Identify and report on trends early and often. 

- Partner with training and content to reinforce compliance with new launches, processes, and policies. 

- Address and res