Hybrid Head of Customer Experience – Operations

Posted 4 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Head of Customer Experience and Operations at VacationRenter managing customer support and sales operations. Focusing on service quality, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation across customer lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate a unified customer care system across all channels
  • Implement routing rules that prioritize by topic, value, and urgency with consistent SLAs
  • Define and document clear agent policies for all customer interactions that reduce ambiguity for agents and provide for a top-tier customer experience
  • Define and manage escalation paths for supplier disputes, complex cases, fraud risk, and potential regulatory issues
  • Own and drive improvements in critical operational metrics, with a strong focus on process efficiency and customer satisfaction
  • Develop playbooks and scripts for inbound sales and assisted conversion, including chat and phone
  • Integrate AI capabilities for classification, response suggestions, summarization, and automated tagging
  • Own presence and strategy across review platforms with strong processes for proactive collection and fast responses
  • Monitor social platforms and complaint sites and manage public replies in coordination with legal and communications
  • Establish severity levels for reputation issues and ensure appropriate escalation on high-risk cases
  • Lead fraud and chargeback workflows, including investigation, documentation, and root cause tracking to mitigate all forms of fraud
  • Build dashboards for volume, SLA compliance, agent performance, refund trends, disputes, and complaint drivers
  • Identify recurring issues and partner with product and supply to eliminate root causes
  • Set quarterly operational targets and track progress against efficiency, cost per contact, conversion lift, and trust metrics

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree (B.S. or B.A.) from an accredited college or university or equivalent career experience
  • 8+ years in customer care, sales operations, CX leadership, or a comparable role
  • Experience building or restructuring multi-channel customer support operations with phone and chat
  • Proven ability to lead vendor-delivered teams, including BPOs, with measurable performance outcomes
  • Strong understanding of policies, quality frameworks, and coaching programs
  • Experience managing reputation risk and public complaint handling across multiple platforms
  • Familiarity with fraud mitigation, chargeback processes, and financial risk controls
  • Hands-on experience and familiarity with the newer technologies (e.g., AI chat, advanced ticketing systems)
  • Analytical mindset with comfort using data to guide decisions.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + equity
  • Top-tier laptop provided
  • 100% company-paid health benefits for base plan coverage, with the option to upgrade to higher-tier plans
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Unlimited, guilt-free vacation days
  • Annual wellness stipend (gym + other wellness activities)
  • Monthly house cleaning stipend
  • Annual travel allowance
  • Monthly cell phone & internet usage stipend
  • Charity donation company match
  • Employee referral bonus
  • Team offsites/activities

Job title

Head of Customer Experience – Operations

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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