Senior Advanced Support Escalations Lead, Cash App

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 50+ million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world's relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.
Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We've been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.
The Role
In this role, you'll build and lead our Advanced Support Escalations function in support of our Cash frontline customer support team. You will be running an operational organization that handles intake and response of real-time escalations, partnering with Cash Customer Operations to ensure representatives are providing adequate support, and delivering high quality customer experiences in our most challenging areas. You will be responsible for long-term strategy, including initiatives to reduce escalations by providing CS Leadership with data and corrective action plans.
You Will
Operations:

• Design, develop, deliver and maintain best-in-class real-time escalations support function, policies and practices for Cash App.
• Lead initiatives and manage high-impact special project work with a results-driven focus to deliver solutions, including implementation of new/existing Complaints Program requirements into Escalations function
• Be a voice of the customer by identifying trends, issues, and suggesting improvements to processes, policies, and products including recommending tooling and data improvements to decrease volume of escalations via corrective action, partnering with other Cash App teams, including Risk and Cash Customer Operations, to prevent and detect incorrect or non-compliant escalations
• Partner closely with the Voice Senior Leadership team to ensure alignment between Voice and MET

Cross-functional Stakeholders:

• Act as liaison between teams to remediate operational root causes of escalations
• Provide timely communication of relevant data to business leaders for decision making.
• Establish and maintain effective communications and relationships across multiple areas, orgs, outside partners and project leaders/teams

Leadership and Development:

• Communicate an inspiring vision and sense of purpose, helping leads and team members understand the connection between their work and the end goal.
• Build constructive relationships with all team members up, down, sideways, inside, and outside of Square.
• Mentor team members and other leaders by providing learning opportunities that are following development plans and our goals.
• Assess metrics to measure the growth and performance of the team, providing insights and reports. Use these metrics and assessments to improve team performance through behavioral coaching.

Scaling a New Department:

• Determine the right org structure and processes for our Advanced Support Escalations function
• Use deep product and industry knowledge, gather and summarize relevant data, suggest improvements in the tools, and techniques to help scale the team while serving as a cross-functional leader.
• Build a new standard for support in payments and commerce-related products by managing and driving improvements in customer satisfaction, productivity, Service level agreements, etc.
• See the opportunity in every challenge and develop structured plans to create solutions to essential support projects to help scale the team.

You Have

• 3+ years of leadership experience in regulated complaints/compliance functions, preferred
• 5+ years of leadership experience in Customer Operations, preferably in real-time escalation support capacity
• 5+ years of direct leadership / people management experience, preferably leading supervisors / managers
• Experience building and scaling customer support operations, in a dynamic, fast-paced retail, restaurant, startup or tech environment
• Past product and project management experience a plus
• Excellent written, verbal and analytical skills
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions through concise and clear messaging
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external partners in other functional units; ability to navigate a complex organization; to influence and lead people across cultures at a senior level

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
To find a location's zone designation, please refer to this resource . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
Zone A:
$198,000 - $297,000 USD
Zone B:
$198,000 - $297,000 USD
Zone C:
$198,000 - $297,000 USD
Zone D:
$198,000 - $297,000 USD
Every benefit we offer is designed with one goal: empowering you to do the best work of your career while building the life you want. Remote work, medical insurance, flexible time off, retirement savings plans, and modern family planning are just some of our offering. Check out our other benefits at Block.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) builds technology to increase access to the global economy. Each of our brands unlocks different aspects of the economy for more people. Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers. Cash App is the easy way to spend, send, and store money. Afterpay is transforming the way customers manage their spending over time. TIDAL is a music platform that empowers artists to thrive as entrepreneurs. Bitkey is a simple self-custody wallet built for bitcoin. Proto is a suite of bitcoin mining products and services. Together, we're helping build a financial system that is open to everyone.