Partner Operations Lead
About Us
At Venmo, we build products that make payments easy. Our payments are so easy that they fade into the background and make entirely new kinds of interactions possible. From splitting rent with roommates to paying a friend to say “thank you”, the stories and experiences of our users’ payments are highlighted and shared in our feed.
If you're an effective communicator, passionate about the customer experience, and love getting in the weeds to drive results then we want to hear from you! Venmo is looking for a leader to help manage customer support partner operations. As the Partner Operations Lead, you’ll report to the Partner Operations Manager and help lead interactions with our partner sites setting a high bar for service delivery and team engagement. Day-to-day roles include engaging with our partner sites to ensure high service delivery, project management, and data analysis.
Responsibilities:
- Operations
- Proactively help our partner sites to succeed
- Foster an environment of collaboration, engagement, and high performance
- Lead and report on root cause analysis and recommend corrective action for variances in operational performance
- Assist in documenting operational process and policy for partner sites
- Track partner escalations, change management, and corrective action
- Identify continuous process improvements and make recommendations
- Ensure partners have all tools and resources needed to provide a stellar customer experience. This includes ensuring processes and procedures are up to date, clear, and report deviations and offer suggestions on improvements
- Serve as a liaison between Venmo Customer Support team and partner staff to gather information, ensure partner effectiveness and resolve issues
- Review monthly hours reports and invoices for accuracy
- Support partner projects and training as needed
- Training
- Be the onsite expert for all things Venmo
- Ensure all Venmo procedure updates are communicated effectively throughout the PHL site
- Work with the Venmo training team and partner team to ensure training curriculum is delivered and effective within the contact center partners
- Liaison between Internal Training Team and partner sites to ensure agent training is up-to-date and work to close gaps in agent knowledge
- Ensure a strong understanding of Venmo policies and procedures required for the support of all current and new products and services
- Quality
- Work with the Venmo quality team to implement the quality program with the partner, including identification of opportunities to drive CS improvement through quality assurance efforts and customer feedback
- Partner with Quality Lead and actively participate in high touch quality assurance calibration efforts, including independently and jointly monitoring calls and emails, score and provide feedback to improve quality, minimize errors and track and report agent and overall partner performance.
- Workforce Management and Reporting
- Work with Venmo workforce team to develop and share forecasts
- Ensure partner sites meet or exceed all target KPIs. Analyze KPI/performance statistics daily and make recommendations on the basis of these statistics constantly raising efficiency and quality metrics
- Analyze and track existing reporting; make recommendations on areas of improvement
Requirements:
- 3+ years of customer service experience required
- 1+ years in a supervisory capacity preferable
- Experience working with outsource partners is a plus
- Proven track record of professional, effective business writing and report creation
- Demonstrated ability to identify and develop resolutions for complex customer situations in an effective manner
- Demonstrated ability to analyze reporting and make process/tool recommendations that drive efficiency
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Work independently and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment
- Ability to work a variable schedule such as nights and weekends
- 75% travel to partner sites domestically and internationally
We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.