Senior Manager, Customer Experience Tools

👩‍💻 The Role 

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. 

Oyster is growing fast, and we are looking for a Senior Manager, Customer Experience Tools to help us build and optimize a robust Tools team that will support Oyster at scale. You will be part of a Business Operations team, within the Customer Experience (CX) organization. CX manages the five operational business units which drive the post-sale customer journey. You will be reporting to the Business Operations Senior Director, a member of the CX leadership team.

The Customer Experience organization’s mission is to deliver a best-in-class customer experience from onboarding all the way through the customer lifecycle. We ensure effective delivery of Oyster’s services and are continually evolving the efficiency and effectiveness of our operations so our teams can focus on the highest value add activities for our customers. As a key leader in the growing organization, you will be instrumental in driving the vision for how we use tools and technology to enable the organization to be more effective. 

Candidates should have experience in SaaS or related technology companies, be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, matrixed organization, and will have a vision for designing a high-performance Tools team.

What you'll do…

• Build and develop a world-class Tools team within Customer Experience

• Own the end to end vision, workflows, and general architecture of systems and tools used by Customer Experience to drive efficiency, transparency, and collaboration

• Bring on new tools as needed, responsible for end to end process from conducting needs analysis through implementation and ongoing maintenance

• Partner with teams outside Customer Experience, including Product, to improve processes and plans that will drive efficiency and effectiveness of our operations

• Build strong cross-functional relationships with teams including Sales and Account Management, Business Unit leadership, Product and Marketing

📜 What we're looking for 

• 7-10 years of experience in a systems & tools team, ideally at a hyper-growth SaaS or digital marketplace

• 3+ years of 1st line management experience

• Extensive experience with implementing, maintaining and optimizing Zendesk in the context of Customer Support

• Experience with additional types of Customer Experience tools including Customer Success Platforms, Workforce Management, and Virtual Agent Platforms

• Exposure to high-performance teams with a deeply collaborative outlook, builder mentality, execution mindset, and transparent and inspirational attitude

• High self-awareness and personal determination combined with high energy and low-ego style that drives results and outcomes

• Track record of leading and proactively managing end-to-end execution of strategic projects

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• A flexible mindset to adapt to our rapidly changing work environment

• Remote-first advocate and passionate about creating change in the future of the work landscape

• Driven by the social impact mission and desire to use skills to influence global change and employment opportunities

• [BONUS] Experience working in a globally distributed company

You'll also need...

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)

• Fluent English language skills