About the Role
Customer Support Director
Job Description:
Bulgaria or USA
- Lead and grow our Customer Support team ensuring the best-in-class customer experience for our digital experience and virtual events SaaS platform. Our Customer Support Team is located in the USA and Bulgaria operating in a follow the sun 24/7 model.
- Report to the Chief Operating Officer.
Responsibilities:
- Grow, manage, and maintain a high-performing team of Customer Support Specialists (CSS) through effective hiring, leadership, and coaching.
- Ensure best-in-class 24/7 support and a high level of customer satisfaction.
- Ensure that the customer support requests are treated according to the SLAs and escalated accordingly to the Product & Engineering team when necessary.
- Create and evolve reporting metrics for internal SLA and Customer satisfaction
- Build a strong trusting relationship with Product & Engineering as well as other teams.
- Manage the performance and professional growth of team members.
- Step in to deal with difficult and important issues that affect customers.
Working time:
- You will be required to work flexible work hours, organize as you see fit but being available at least 3 hours per day when the US and Europe shifts overlap.
- You will be responsible for urgent critical issue escalation coordination between 8 am to 11 pm CET, Monday – Sunday (at the moment the critical issue escalations are less than 2 per month).
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience managing, leading, and developing a team to support an Enterprise SaaS platform.
- Located within 100 km distance of our offices (Sofia or Chicago)
- Previous experience in leading teams located in different time zones is an advantage.
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
- Tech-savviness and interest in next-generation customer experience technology and products.
- Expert in using incident management platforms (Jira), CRM systems, and web chat solutions (Intercom).
- Proven leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to successfully coach, lead and develop a team.
- Proven effectiveness with difficult customer situations and expectation management.
- Ability to keep up with a fast-paced high-energy environment.