Employer: HubSpot
Customer Support is the heart and soul of our business. We’re looking for our next exceptional people manager with a passion for developing others, building effective teams, and helping us uphold and surpass our commitments to the customers we serve. If you have experience leading or coaching teams, a desire to help others, and a passion for driving a high quality customer experience, this may be the right opportunity for you.
As a Manager of a Customer Support team, you will be responsible for hiring, coaching, and leading a diverse and inclusive team of new and established Customer Support Specialists in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment. In this role, you will work closely with Customer Support leadership to help build a team of elite Customer Support Specialists who help our customers grow better.
In this role, you’ll get to:
- Focus first and foremost on leading, building and maintaining a culture of top performing team players.
- Serve as a coach, mentor, and leader, helping individuals grow in their career, while setting expectations on performance based on feedback and transparency
- Demonstrate extraordinary organization and time management skills.
- Manage the day-to-day operations, goal setting, performance management, and growth of approximately 20 Customer Support Specialists
- Establish a culture of operational excellence where the team consistently executes to ensure customers receive the best possible resolutions while meeting our Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Manage customer escalations to create positive outcomes and creative problem-solve
- Coordinate with recruiting and internal teams to recruit, hire, and train new team members
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to improve processes and holistically drive effective solutions for our customers
- Analyze customer and specialist performance data to make informed decisions about team management
- Use and understand the HubSpot suite of tools
- Join forces with other leaders across HubSpot to design programs that cross-pollinate HubSpot’s global customer success organization
We are looking for people who:
- Have previous experience leading or managing people, in the technology space
- Possess natural curiosity and has an affinity for creative problem-solving
- Communicate in a clear, professional, and informative style
- Build trust and confidence with customers and colleagues
- Have shown a consistent track record of delivering results in excess of company expectations
- Have a reputation for exemplifying the highest level of professionalism
- Lead through influence and maintains a high level of team engagement and motivation
- Maintain high standards, drives results, and has a bias for action in a dynamic and collaborative environment
- Understand customer service and communication, technical issue resolution, incident management (e.g. outages), and Customer Support best practices
- Are motivated by supporting others achieve success and growing individuals
- Have an interest in technology, marketing, sales business and industry growth
- Have superior data monitoring, analysis, and manipulation skills
- Have experience or interest in building a positive team culture that is focused on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging