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You'll create the direction, structure and accountability that\nhelp them succeed, combining strong people management with a clear understanding of technical\nsupport delivery.\nReporting to the Head of Customer Experience, you'll turn CX priorities into practical plans, lead\nimprovements across teams and build a culture of ownership, curiosity and continuous learning.\nResponsibilities\nWhat you'll doLead and develop the team\n• Own hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management and career development, growing Seniors\ninto confident technical leaders within their pods.\n• Set clear expectations for delivery, technical quality and leadership; give regular feedback, address\nperformance gaps and follow through on development plans.\n• Build a supportive, accountable culture where people challenge ideas, make decisions and take\nownership of results.\nOwn technical quality and escalation effectiveness\n• Set investigation standards for complex cases, including APIs, logs, reproducible tests and clear\ntechnical communication; coach Seniors to challenge hypotheses and own cases through resolution.\n• Improve the escalation flow between Specialists, Seniors and CX Engineering, with clear responsibilities\nand well-evidenced handovers.\n• Manage priorities and capacity across casework, coaching and improvement work; use data and case\nreviews to improve resolution times, SLA performance and escalation quality.\nSet the standard for customer service\n• Lead sensitive and high-impact customer escalations, coordinating with CX Team Leads, Customer\nSuccess and CX Engineering to align actions, manage expectations and restore confidence.\n• Define and uphold service standards for responsiveness, quality of answers, proactive updates and\nfollow-through, aligned with agreed SLAs and service commitments.\n• Coach Seniors to recognise customer impact, assess urgency and communicate clear findings, next\nsteps and update timelines; turn complaints and service gaps into improvements.\nDrive AI adoption, innovation and team capability\n• Champion AI tools and automation in investigations, knowledge sharing and support workflows;\nexperiment, measure impact and scale improvements to quality, speed and customer experience.\n• Build team capability through coaching, training and reusable guidance; help Seniors adopt new tools\nconfidently, validate AI outputs and apply sound judgement.\n• Turn CX strategy into measurable improvements, identify opportunities independently and deliver\nchanges with Product and CX Engineering to reduce recurring customer friction; share progress, risks\nand learning.\nRequirements\nWhat you'll bring• Experience leading a technical support or customer experience team in a SaaS environment, including\nmanaging and developing senior individual contributors.\n• A track record of improving team performance through clear expectations, effective coaching and\nconsistent accountability.\n• Strong technical judgement and confidence engaging with APIs, integrations, logs and structured\ntroubleshooting.\n• Experience improving escalation processes and working closely with Engineering and Product teams.\n• Experience leading sensitive customer escalations, managing expectations and establishing consistent\nservice standards.\n• The ability to turn broad priorities into a practical plan, make decisions within your remit and sustain\nprogress independently.\n• Practical experience adopting AI tools or automation to improve support workflows, with curiosity to\nexperiment, evaluate results and lead team adoption.\n• Confidence using operational data and customer feedback to identify root causes, prioritise work and\nassess results.\n• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to challenge\nconstructively and build agreement across teams.\n• Experience leading through change while maintaining trust, clarity and delivery.\nExperience supporting HR, payroll or other complex business software would be an advantage.\nWhat success looks like\n• Senior Specialists act as confident technical leaders within their pods, with clear ownership and visible\ndevelopment.\n• Complex cases progress through strong investigation, sound judgement and timely decisions.\n• Escalations are well evidenced, with fewer avoidable handovers and clearer accountability.\n• Customers receive a consistent level of service, with clear communication, timely updates and confident\nownership during escalations.\n• Specialists become more capable through effective coaching and accessible technical knowledge.\n• AI tools, automation and improvement initiatives deliver measurable benefits to customer experience,\ntechnical quality and team productivity.\n• The team operates with clear priorities, consistent standards and a supportive, accountable culture.\nBenefits\nHiBob is a village filled with incredible people, and we’re proud of that. It’s a place where Bobbers can truly be themselves. We’re about fun, dreams, and ambition just as much as we’re about precision, growth, and high performance.Becoming a Bobber means joining a company that values you as a whole person. You’ll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity - alongside all of this:\nCash allowance for health insurance and wellbeing\nAnnual vision allowance\n25 days annual leave\nAnnual UnMind subscription and wellness benefits\nTravel support (cycle scheme and season ticket loans)\nHybrid working from day 1\nWork from home allowance - to get your home office set up!\nTemporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 months (after 6 months of employment)\nBob balance days - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter\n2 Social Impact days per year for volunteering\nAwesome employee referral program- $2,500 for each successful referral with an additional ambassador programme\nPension scheme auto-enrolment from day 1\nFun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)\nWe love birthdays - take the day off and receive a special gift\nIf this sounds like something you’ve been looking for, we’d love to have you. Come on, join our village!Belonging at HiBob\nOur success depends on our people, and we want HiBob to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive, so we’re committed to being proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities in which we live, work, and hire.\nWe are open to all talent. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).\nPlease contact us if you’d like to discuss any adjustments to our process which might help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities. We want you to bring the best of you. 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