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Whatnot · 4 months ago

Customer Experience Team Lead

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, redefining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment. The Customer Experience Team Lead will drive team performance and user experience through process improvement, order management, and problem-solving, while managing a team of agents to ensure high-quality customer service.

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Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

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 resolve critical issues from partners and other teams
Identify and call out areas of opportunity for Whatnot, helping improve or develop new processes to improve the user experience and business by understanding customer needs
Other ad-hoc project work as the business requires

Qualification

Support operations experienceData analysisTeam leadershipZendesk knowledgePerformance metricsCustomer service mentalityGrowth mindsetProblem-solvingFlexibility

Required

5+ years of support operations experience managing support KPIs such as CSAT
A leader with a strong desire and natural ability to motivate a team, set and achieve targets, and manage career growth and team performance
Driven operational excellence, quality improvements, and performance-managed multiple agents
Analytical and data-driven, with experience distilling large data sets to actionable insights
An owner, always looking for opportunities to better your work, team, product or customer experience
Comfortable making tough decisions that balance the trade-off between quality and quantity
Knowledge of Zendesk, data platforms such as Sigma, familiar with excel/google Sheets (Knowledge of SQL preferred)
Experience in startups, marketplaces, or e-commerce
Worked within multichannel support operations (chat, email, sms, phone)
Familiarity with working with large, diverse customer support, and operations organizations
Flexibility to occasionally work shifts, holidays, and outside of standard schedule

Preferred

Knowledge of SQL preferred
Experience in startups, marketplaces, or e-commerce
Familiarity with working with large, diverse customer support, and operations organizations

Benefits

Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
Work From Home Support
Home office setup allowance
Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
Care benefits
Monthly allowance for wellness
Annual allowance towards Childcare
Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
Parental Leave
16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

Company

Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform for buying and selling products.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$974.7M
Key Investors
CapitalGY Combinator Continuity FundAndreessen Horowitz
2025-10-28Series F· $225M
2025-01-08Series E· $265M
2022-07-21Series D· $260M

Leadership Team

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Jeff Chang
Director of Engineering, Head of Growth
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