Intercom is an AI-first customer service platform that helps businesses deliver better, faster, more personalized support.Intercom is bringing AI-first Customer Service to the world, dramatically improving experiences for customers, support agents, and managers alike.Modern, fast, and easy-to-use, Intercom's complete AI-first Customer Service Platform enhances the customer experience, improves operational efficiency, and scales with our customers' business every step of the way. Intercom is also the most innovative and fastest improving product on the market. Shipping over 200 product improvements every year, Intercom is bringing AI features to market before anyone else.What's the opportunity? 🤔Intercom is a complete customer service platform, and the leader in AI for customer service. This is a unique opportunity to lead a support team at a support focused company, and showcase our vision for AI first customer service experience.You will be leading a high performing team of Technical Support Specialists and Technical Support Engineers while managing all aspects of delivering an exceptional customer experience for the APAC region. We're looking for a motivated, independent operator, who is comfortable wearing multiple hats and is energized by constant change. The ideal candidate will have exceptional customer service skills, solid technical experience, and proven experience successfully leading and contributing to a distributed Customer Support team at a SaaS organization.What will I be doing? 🚀
- People management - Onboard, develop, coach, and lead a team of ~10 inboxing teammates. Promote a team culture of belonging and of owners and problem solvers
- Culture - Motivate and ensure the CS team is deeply aligned and committed to Intercom's strategy, vision, and core values
- CS results - Be responsible for and drive first response times and customer satisfaction within your team and across the CS organization.
- Building - Identify, create solutions, and execute on workflows and projects to achieve CS Org goals and deliver a remarkable customer experience. This is start up environment and we're constantly testing and learning new things
- Cross-functional projects - partner with marketing & sales, and R&D as the voice of CS and our customers.
- APAC Office - Be the point of contact for CS in the APAC office, contributing to the overall APAC office experience
- 4+ years experience working in a Customer Support/service capacity - SaaS or technology company highly desired
- Minimum of 3 year experience in a role where you directly led and managed a team of people and built a strong team culture
- Strong communication / writing skills and interpersonal skills. You will be leading the APAC team, and then collaborating with your global peers mostly async.
- Previous experience managing a team to metrics, hosting regular 1:1s, performance reviews, performance improvement plans and running team meetings
- Customer focus - you obsess over the customer experience and proven track record of building customer obsession into customer interactions, processes, and culture
- Comprehensive knowledge of and interest in the technology industry
- Ability to recognize patterns in data and provide recommendations based on those patterns
- A sense of optimism, flexibility, resilience, grit, and creativity
- Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
- Catered lunch every weekday, plus a fully stocked kitchen
- Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!
- Flexible holidays so you can take time off when you need it
- Healthcare stipend towards private health insurance for you and your partner/spouse
- MacBooks are our standard, but we're happy to get you whatever equipment helps you get your job done