Leads the Communication Desk across shifts and locations, overseeing staff performance, outage and escalation coordination, executive communications, and issue resolution. Analyzes customer interaction data, improves operational processes, partners with internal teams, and maintains service quality during real-time events. The role requires managing complex activities involving teams of at least 40 people, coaching employees, making rapid decisions under pressure, and supporting overnight issues approximately once monthly.
This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Interested in leading a high-impact team that shapes how Spectrum responds to customer needs? As Communication Desk Manager, you will oversee daily operations, drive coordination during outages and service issues, and elevate communication across departments. Your leadership ensures seamless service and empowers staff to deliver exceptional results.
How You'll Make an Impact
Working Conditions
What You'll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education
Experience
Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Experience
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Here, our employees don't just have jobs, they're building careers. That's why we offer a comprehensive package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.
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Get to Know Us Charter Communications provides superior communication and entertainment products for residential and business customers through the Spectrum brand. Our offerings include Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice. Beyond our connectivity solutions, we also provide local news, programming and regional sports via Spectrum Networks and multiscreen advertising solutions via Spectrum Reach. When you join our team, you'll be keeping our customers connected to what matters most in 41 states across the U.S.
Grow Your Career Here We're committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve - providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans.
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Interested in leading a high-impact team that shapes how Spectrum responds to customer needs? As Communication Desk Manager, you will oversee daily operations, drive coordination during outages and service issues, and elevate communication across departments. Your leadership ensures seamless service and empowers staff to deliver exceptional results.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Supervise and guide Communication Desk employees across multiple shifts and locations
- Coach and develop staff to achieve goals and maximize performance
- Recommend and decide on escalations and outages, ensuring quality communication with Spectrum's Executive Leaders
- Develop techniques to analyze customer call, chat and trouble call data and identify trends, issues, and opportunities
- Establish productive relationships with operational partners to facilitate effective resolution of customer and employee facing issues
- Evaluate and improve existing processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
- Foster high morale by providing regular feedback and opportunities for staff input
Working Conditions
- Must be available in an on-call capacity to support overnight issues approximately once a month from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM.
- This position is in an office environment with a hybrid work schedule. Eligible employees can work from home up to one day each week.
What You'll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field or equivalent experience
Experience
- 3+ years general management experience
- 2+ years project management experience
Skills
- Ability to complete critical operations management responsibilities in a real-time, fast-paced environment
- Ability to make critical decisions quickly with limited information to minimize impact of outages to both Customers and Customer/Field Operations team
- Ability to lead a team through triaging an active event, issuing clear direction to subordinates while simultaneously cooperatively liaising with partner groups and ensuring leadership awareness
- Expertise or ability to develop expertise in Spectrum's communication ecosystem including the following methodologies, systems or platforms: Intelligent Voice Response(IVR), Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA), Preferred Communications, Proactive Service Announcements (PSAs), Issue Resolution Integrated System, Biller Troubleshooting Trees, Whiteboard and Customer Experience Tracking platforms
- Broad or ability to develop broad knowledge of Hybrid Fiber-Coaxal (HFC) and Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) network topology
- Ability to work well under pressure with minimal supervision
- Strong communication skills with management, peers and staff
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent analytical skills for extracting and correlating data
- Broad knowledge of cable technologies, systems and processes
- Ability to quickly learn new information and adapt to evolving technologies
- Effective coaching and mentoring skills to develop knowledge and analytical expertise in staff
- Ability to manage complex activities involving teams of at least 40 people
Preferred Qualifications
Experience
- 2+ years of operations management
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COP595 2026-84029 COP595 2026
Here, our employees don't just have jobs, they're building careers. That's why we offer a comprehensive package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supporting all aspects of their well-being at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant's criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
Get to Know Us Charter Communications provides superior communication and entertainment products for residential and business customers through the Spectrum brand. Our offerings include Spectrum Internet®, TV, Mobile and Voice. Beyond our connectivity solutions, we also provide local news, programming and regional sports via Spectrum Networks and multiscreen advertising solutions via Spectrum Reach. When you join our team, you'll be keeping our customers connected to what matters most in 41 states across the U.S.
Grow Your Career Here We're committed to growing a workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve - providing opportunities for employment and advancement to all team members. Spectrum is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including job seekers with disabilities and veterans.
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