Manager I, Customer Experience

Who we are:

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We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet—and at Rover, our mission is to make it easier to experience that love. Founded in 2011, the Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe. We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses on Rover with the tools and security of a global company to back them.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with our teams in Barcelona, London, San Antonio, Spokane and remote locations. We’ve got a reputation for being a great place to work, having been named among the 100 Best Companies to Work For in Seattle Business Magazine and Washington’s Best Workplaces in the Puget Sound Business Journal. We're an agile, fast-growing company, and our leadership comes from some of the world's most respected tech companies.

At Rover, our furry coworkers are just as important as our human ones—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Along with making the joys of pet parenthood more accessible, we’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet people—and that starts with our employees.

Who We're Looking For:

Rover Operations Managers operate in a fast-paced, agile startup and are responsible for ensuring pet parents and pet caregivers receive world class customer service by coaching and scaling a multi-leveled customer experience team. We are looking for a strategic and analytically-minded leader to take customer support to the next level. Your work will directly shape the trajectory of the customer experience at Rover, all within a vibrant, pet-friendly, later-stage company environment.

The ideal candidate will have experience managing customer experience teams. Your passion for team leadership is only surpassed by your passion for the customer. You will motivate, coach and develop your team to exceed performance goals, while also empowering them to advocate for the end user. You are someone who has demonstrated tremendous adaptability in a fast-paced environment; you thrive on a team that operates in terms of days, not weeks. You are analytically minded, and know that if you can’t measure it you can’t optimize it. You are comfortable creating and analyzing reports, then making data-driven decisions to improve both business efficiencies and customer experience. Finally, you are able to easily context-switch between executing in the now and strategizing for the future. You will be expected to plan and staff the customer support function as it evolves.

To be considered for this role, you must be located within commutable distance to our Spokane or San Antonio offices. You also must be able to work at least one weekend day. Exact scheduled days and hours to be determined, as Rover's CX team operates 24/7.

Your Responsibilities:

• Partners with workforce management to organize, prioritize and schedule work assignments to meet business needs
• Identify areas of efficiency opportunity within the team and can recommend and implement changes as needed
• Manage queues to agreed-upon service levels, and strive to raise the bar higher
• Identifies emerging business problems related to their job function and presents them in a solutions-oriented format
• Motivate, coach, and develop 8-10 professional individual contributors who support the customer experience at Rover, including vendor management of outsourcing partners
• Review customer contacts and identify ways to improve the customer experience, as well as own escalated customer contacts and resolve them

Your Qualifications:

• Previously used Rover.com as a pet parent or dog sitter/walker preferred
• Experience at a startup or other fast-growth company preferred
• Experience in vendor management
• Experience with Zendesk, Talkdesk, or similar customer management tools
• 3-5 years experience working in operations or customer experience
• 1-2 years experience managing or leading teams in operations or customer experience
• Very high attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated competency with one or more analytical toolkits, including Excel, Google Sheets, and / or SQL
• Experience at a consumer technology company preferred
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Experience with process design and improvement
• Experience using data to make strategic business decisions

Benefits of Working for Rover.com

• Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Competitive compensation
• Regular team activities performed in-person and virtually
• Flexible PTO
• Company equity
• Doggy benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog
• Commuter benefits
• Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches semi-monthly
• Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
• 401k

Rover is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting a diverse, inclusive and inventive environment with the best employees. We’re driven by seeing our people succeed and grow, and we work to ensure everyone contributes to their fullest potential. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

We are committed to work with you to look for reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.