Director, Customer Support - BlueVine｜Meet.jobs

This is not a fully remote role. At Bluevine, we pride ourselves on our collaborative culture, which we believe is best maintained through in-person interactions and a vibrant office environment. All of our offices have reopened in accordance with local guidelines, and follow a hybrid model.

About the Role

Bluevine is looking to add an experienced and strategic Director of Customer Support who will assist in setting and executing against our Customer Support strategy while leading teams in our Customer Support Organization that support multiple products. The Director of Customer Support will be responsible for ensuring we deliver great customer experiences that scale while effectively managing operational costs. We need someone who is operationally-focused and adept at connecting and communicating trends cross-functionally with clear metrics, feedback, and stories. You will work closely with peers across the entire organization to build, scale, and maintain a best-in-class operation across all of our geographic locations (US and India). We are looking for someone who is energetic, self-motivated, and ready to step up to the challenge of helping build an organization that is crucial to our business and the small business owners we serve.

What You'll Do

• Manage multiple teams of front-line managers while designing and driving strategic improvements to scale processes, services, and systems to enable the team to reduce operating expenses, while achieving SLA targets, customer experience metrics, and growth goals.
• Implement best-in-class customer support practices that help scale the organization, and ensure team members can efficiently and effectively support multi-product customers while reducing operational costs.
• Establish a culture of accountability and execution by setting clear performance expectations and operating routines.
• Effectively identifies and diagnoses operational issues and implements appropriate solutions; such as team alignment, strategic planning, process improvement, change management, coaching, talent development, retention, and engagement strategies.
• Creates an inclusive environment that encourages maximum individual and team effectiveness; provides strong, dynamic mentor, develops, and guides employees to deliver upon customer engagement and key performance indicators effectively.
• Manages projects to ensure successful delivery (on time, within budget, meeting agreed-upon success criteria, etc.) by establishing clear goals, accountability, and alignment of resources.
• Partner closely with other department leaders, including but not limited to teams like Marketing, Legal/Compliance, Product, HR, and Bank Partners to drive initiatives forward.
• Provide reports and predictions to Bluevine’s executive team and financial partners.
• Support BlueVine cultural initiatives such as recognition programs, engagement activities, diversity and inclusion, and community involvement, etc.
• Shift seamlessly between the role of player and coach as the organization grows by answering calls, chat, emails, and resolving escalations.

What We Look For

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent a plus.
• 5+ years leading a financial services Customer Support Organization, preferably at a banking, credit card or payment processing organization.
• 8+ years of experience in banking operations or financial services.
• 4+ years of experience managing 3-5 Customer Support/ Customer Success managers
• Must be able to work in a hybrid environment - In-office 2 days a week and at-home 3 days a week.
• Work from home environment that has reliable internet access - 100 mbps
• People-focused leader with proven ability to build creative, collaborative teams, develop people, and link performance to overall business goals.
• Strong knowledge of the current banking regulatory environment, payments, contact center trends/solutions.
• Ability to analyze and simplify complex issues with strong attention to detail; identify and drive strategic solutions.
• Assertive self-starter, with exceptional professional verbal/written skills, who is highly organized and able to work independently to finish assigned projects.
• Analytical and detail oriented; quick-thinker, fast learner, problem solver.
• Strong work ethic—gets things done within a strict time frame.
• Ability to articulate technical concepts/requirements clearly and succinctly.
• Advanced project management skills a plus.

**New Hire Base Salary Range: *$140,800.00 to *$172,500.00

This role is also eligible to earn annual performance-based incentive compensation in the form of a cash bonus.

BlueVine focuses on Financial Services, Finance, Small and Medium Businesses, and Fin Tech. Their company has offices in Salt Lake City, Redwood City, Jersey City, and Gretna. They have a large team that's between 201-500 employees. To date, BlueVine has raised $62.5M of funding; their latest round was closed on January 2016.

You can view their website at http://www.bluevine.com or find them on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.