Lead the Customer Experience team, coaching staff to meet performance targets, enhancing team capabilities, and managing customer interactions while advocating for their needs.
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
How you’ll make an impact
Xero’s Customer Experience Team works together to provide 24/7 support to Xero users. We are Xero brand ambassadors and aim to delight our customers and make it easy for them to see how Xero adds value to their business.
As a Customer Experience People Lead, you will be responsible for leading a group of Customer Experience Specialists who are passionate about providing these experiences for both our customers and Xero. Your team will be providing exceptional support and guidance to small business owners, bookkeepers and accountants when they reach out to us with a question and when they reach out to them proactively by phone. You’ll be empowered and empower your teams to make decisions in the best interests of our customers and our business.
What you'll do
• You will join a well established team of people leads as part of the local CX leadership team supporting our global customer base.
• Effectively coaching your teams to achieve results, including your teams quality, customer satisfaction and productivity targets
• Uplift overall capability of your team through effective ongoing development and coaching
• Lead a high performance culture in your teams, celebrating success and proactively managing underperformance in a meaningful way
• Ensure your teams are delivering on the workforce planning requirements in our global operating plan, including • Specialist availability, leave management, and productivity targets
• Play a key role in change leadership, ensuring changes are well understood and adopted
• Provide outstanding leadership and motivation to the team, balancing empowerment and autonomy while ensuring accountability
• Collaborate effectively with your global peers to to drive alignment and cohesiveness across our global operations
• Proactively engage with customers as required, advocate for our customers (being the voice of the customer to influence business change) and be a point of escalation.
• Being actively involved in the recruitment and retention of capable individuals, building on and complementing the diversity of our team.
What you'll bring
• Experience managing a team in a customer support environment, with strong coaching and leadership capabilities
• A people, performance and customer-driven mindset, with a proven ability to balance individual and business needs
• Comfortable working to service levels and quality targets, with a focus on team development and outcomes
• Skilled in supporting and landing change, with a resilient and adaptable approach
• Confident communicator who role models feedback, empathy, and customer-centric behaviours
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
Xero Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
Our office is in the heart of the Sydney CBD with views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. We're just over by Wynyard Park so it's easy to get to.
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