Senior Manager, Customer Support

About HighLevel: 

HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

Our Website - https://www.gohighlevel.com/

YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFiV4qDX5ipE-DQcsm1j4g

Blog Post - https://blog.gohighlevel.com/general-atlantic-joins-highlevel/

Our Customers:

HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K agencies & entrepreneurs and 450K million businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.

Scale at HighLevel:

We work at scale; our infrastructure handles  around 3 Billion+ API hits & 2 Billion+ message events monthly and over 25M views of customer pages daily. We also handle over 80 Terabytes of data across 5 Databases.

Who You Are: 

You are looking for an opportunity to bring your creative, organized, and strategic thinking to an impactful senior-level managerial role that allows you to lead, develop, and grow our Premium support team. You will monitor and own your team’s KPIs, while consistently driving and tracking towards optimal results.

To be successful in this role, you will exemplify our “customer obsessed” ethos and demonstrate best in class customer service and support practices. You are comfortable leading in a high-performance, high-accountability environment, and will leverage your excellent leadership skills and working knowledge of people/team management and the SaaS landscape to serve you well as you lead several teams of customer support representatives. You will be responsible for managing teams operating across multiple shifts, ensuring smooth and continuous support

• What You’ll Be Doing:
• Supervise a team of Customer Support Managers focused on solving customer issues and achieving high levels of customer satisfaction
•  Support the organizational goals and participate in business planning activities such as staffing, goal setting, and resource planning
• Lead and ensure your managers and teams are successful by coaching, developing, inspiring and holding them accountable against established KPIs, policies and procedures - measure and provide detailed analysis on success against team’s growth KPIs and metrics
• Conduct consistent and impactful performance conversations and coaching sessions with team members and managers
• Responsible for providing your teams with technical resources and advice, resolving problems, and disseminating advisories, warnings, and corrective action plans when warranted
• Delegate and assign responsibilities and tasks based on team member strengths to foster an exceptional customer experience. 
• Identify and implement process improvements and alternative solutions to drive team efficiency, productivity and engagement. 
• Serve as an influential leader by demonstrating professionalism, operating in a fast-paced environment, taking ownership of your team’s success, and fostering a team culture of encouraging growth, innovation, and proactive problem solving. 
• Monitor the overall health of the support system, which includes but is not limited to live ticket queues, live channel queues, major bugs and staff availability
• Confidently work with large amounts of data and have a data-minded approach to resource planning, goal setting, and analyzing its outcomes
• Partner with the Associate Director of Customer Support regarding forecasting, budget management, optimization of talent and resources, and the impact
• Manage projects involving complex work streams and cross-functional collaboration - Communicate and collaborate with internal departments to create and confirm efficient workflows and relationships
• Improve customer service quality results by collaborating with your team of managers to study, evaluate, and redesign processes; establish and communicate service metrics; monitor and analyze results; and implement change
• Update job knowledge and managerial skills by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; and participating in professional organizations
• Act as an escalation point for high severity customer and team member issues that arise from within the team, directly from customers, or from other HighLevel functions
• Other duties may be assigned and/or modified as business needs change.

• What You’ll Bring: 
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Experience/Education/Certifications Required:
• BA/BS in a relevant field or equivalent managerial experience in the Account/Business Relationship Management domain required.
• 5+ years of experience leading a fast-paced, results driven team for a SaaS or Product-Led Growth startup company preferred.
• 5+ years of experience with staffing/hiring, performance management, career conversations, coaching and developing front-line employees and junior managers required
• You are a true people manager at heart, you love mentoring, leading and contributing to the professional development of those around you.
• Prior experience partnering and influencing customers and team members in developing their strategic direction
• Prior experience exercising and utilizing project management skills to identify and align strategies and new processes that will impact the customer experience. 
• Strong collaboration, time-management and prioritization skills are critical to the success of this role
• The ability to build and maintain strong relationships internally with senior leadership, teams and customers
• Strong experience using data/analytics tools to measure the impact of your work and develop new projects
• Ability to collaborate and influence cross-functional teams and champion new concepts and ideas
• A strong technical aptitude to help our customers succeed with the HighLevel software
• Experience working with and or ability to learn the use of various reporting tools to leverage data, analytics and automation to drive demonstrable customer and team success
• Strong customer facing communication skills
• Demonstrated approach to problem solving and conflict management
• Must be a go-getter, not afraid to ask questions, and take accountability for your results and your team’s results. 
• Working Knowledge of the following applications strongly preferred: Google Suite, Zoom, Slack, Excel, Spreadsheets, Mac, etc
• Experience managing teams in different shifts is highly preferred

EEO Statement:

At HighLevel we value diversity. In fact, we understand it makes our organization stronger. We are committed to inclusive hiring/promotion practices that evaluate skill sets, abilities and qualifications without regard to any characteristic unrelated to performing the job at the highest level. Our objective is to foster an environment where really talented employees from all walks of life can be their true and whole selves, cherished and welcomed for their differences, while providing awesome service to our clients and learning from one another along the way!

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this classification. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job.