Manager, Support Operations

As a Support Operations Manager, you will lead, manage, and be the escalation point for the Technical Operations Engineers and Menu & Support Leads, in order to provide world-class customer support to our global clients across all our products: Serve, Connect, Reward and me&u. In addition to your day-to-day leadership responsibilities, you will dive through the data to identify key opportunities and work cross-functionally with other departments to retain revenue and increase customer satisfaction.
What You'll Do
- Onboard, train, manage, motivate and develop the Technical Operations Engineers, Menu & Support and Customer Experience Leads, providing coaching, engagement and evaluation to assist them in their day-to-day responsibilities and career development.
- Oversee the Customer Experience and Customer Support team to ensure requests are assigned appropriately and actioned in a timely manner within relevant SLAs.
- Build, develop and maintain internal systems and processes that ensure effective communication and escalation of issues between support and engineering teams, including product feedback and ideas to improve the product.
- Review, report and advise relative importance/impact/priority of product issues to ensure swift resolution and reduce customer impact.
- Establish and maintain processes for effective communication and collaboration between Support and other departments.
- Enable and build a strong culture of data-informed decisions, allowing teams to feel supported, have clarity and thrive with measured results.
- Be obsessed with data and analytics, building dashboards to measure KPIs and identify opportunities in line with priorities such as Net Revenue Retention, reducing the number of support cases, response times and increasing CSAT.
- Ensure the Support and Customer Experience teams are set up for success with the required tools and documentation in place to deliver an excellent customer experience to our customers.
- Provide non-technical and technical support to our customers and serve as the escalation point for the Technical Operations team and Menu & Support team.
- Be the Customer Success team's source of truth regarding technical issues and troubleshooting, escalating issues to the developers when issues are confirmed.
- Lead and coordinate the Technical Operations and Customer Support team during and after high-severity incidents.
- Work closely with the Customer Operations Director to identify improvements to processes, tools and products to reduce the number of inbound support requests.
- Work with the Programs and enablement Manager to ensure correct internal and public documentation for all support and product-related knowledge bases.
- Create and manage our incident response plan and ensure all SLA's are met.
- Directly handle communications and be the escalation point for large enterprise accounts and groups.
What You'll Need
- You're a leader in nature; you're motivated by nurturing both new and existing talent.
- Strong organisation and time management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities and projects. This is a busy and fast-paced team within the company.
- You think outside the box and love continually improving processes. In previous roles, you've run, or been heavily involved in, operational improvement projects.
- Technical understanding of the company hardware and software platforms to provide support and guidance to venues.
- Understanding of how web applications work and being able to analyse and interpret log data (using platforms such as Datadog) to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
- Knowledge of SQL or other database query languages
- Experience with leading globally dispersed teams
- Technical understanding of APIs and how they work, given that all integrations utilise APIs
- Basic knowledge of writing HTML, CSS and Javascript code - relevant to Connect templates
- Ideally, previous experience with building automation and apps using Superblocks to increase efficiency and lessen reliance on the Engineering team