Director of Customer Operations
Austin, TX
Our client is a fast-growing technology company. Compensation package will include base, generous equity, bonus, as well as 100% paid Health insurance, vision, and dental coverage.
People Leadership
- Manage a multidisciplinary operations team
- Define team OKRs, set performance targets, and hold regular performance reviews.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and professional growth.
Deployments
- Act as the primary client point of contact for all new implementations.
- Lead cross-functional coordination (clinical, product, operations) to ensure seamless deployment and readiness.
- Travel to client sites as needed to support launches, training, and quality assurance.
Customer Success and Operations
- Own end-to-end operations for existing clients — efficiency, quality, and KPI management.
- Develop and monitor key operational metrics (SLA compliance, utilization, cost per engagement, satisfaction scores).
- Drive continuous improvement through root-cause analysis and process optimization.
- Serve as the point of contact for escalated customer issues, ensuring timely resolution and communication.
Recruiting and Workforce Planning
- Define hiring priorities and staffing models based on volume forecasts and strategic initiatives.
- Collaborate with internal recruiters and external agencies to meet timelines and quality standards.
- Oversee candidate evaluation standards
Onboarding and Training
- Own new-hire onboarding processes ensuring operational compliance, readiness, and scalability.
- Continuously refine training content and delivery methods to enhance clinical, operational, and cultural alignment.
Performance Management and Optimization
- Monitor productivity and quality metrics; identify performance gaps and execute improvement plans.
- Analyze profitability drivers (utilization, time allocation, client mix) and recommend optimizations.
- Collaborate with Finance and Data teams to align resource allocation with business goals.
Strategic and Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Product and Engineering to identify technology and automation opportunities.
- Manage operational ROI reporting.
- Analyzing billable hour data and optimizing for profitability and compliance.
- Support leadership in long-term capacity planning and organizational design.
Requirements:
- You are a strong people leader and know how to motivate a team to perform.
- Fast-paced, external, customer-facing Operations / CX / Implementation experience.
- Experience working in resource-constrained environments. Doing more with less.
- Hungry and scrappy. Able to independently make things happen without hand-holding.
- Nimble thinker and problem solver. You can figure things out.
- An appreciation for the risk/reward of an early-stage startup. Someone who naturally biases towards equity vs guaranteed salary and winning together.
- Science background is appreciated - The ability to pragmatically digest evidence and make decisions based on facts and data
- Ability to travel throughout the US as-needed.