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Trust and Safety Team Lead, International

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In-Office
Dublin
Senior level
In-Office
Dublin
Senior level
Lead the Trust & Risk team to improve user experience through management of performance metrics, coaching agents, and identifying process improvements.
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🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

💻 Role

The Trust & Risk team is responsible for driving the best possible user experience through process improvement, order management, and problem-solving. As a leader of this team, you will be responsible for ensuring that our team of agents dig into every ticket to the lowest level of detail so they can best solve customer issues and provide critical user insights to the business. You’ll take those insights and make Whatnot 1% better every day by partnering with driving cross-functional teams to fix gaps in our product or experience that negatively impact our customers. You will also be responsible for driving team productivity through performance metrics while delivering a quality experience, ensuring our users are getting a quick, and quality experience.

  • Lead team performance and drive results in team productivity, quality, and customer experience

  • Manage, coach, encourage, and be responsible for the performance and culture of a team of agents

  • Maintain functional knowledge of, and act as a subject matter expert of processes, product, and projects related to day-to-day operations

  • Drive accountability on policies and other guidelines

  • Manage T&S incidents on the platform

  • Create new and use existing reporting to identify areas to improve performance metrics and productivity

  • Build a culture of insights generation to improve product, process, experience and overall business by reviewing Sigma & Zendesk metrics regularly

  • Identify and report on trends early and often.

  • Partner with training and content to reinforce compliance with new launches, processes, and policies.

  • Address and resolve critical issues from partners and other teams

  • Identify and call out areas of opportunity for Whatnot, helping improve or develop new processes to improve the user experience and business by understanding customer needs

  • Other ad-hoc project work as the business requires

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Dublin, Ireland hub.

👋 You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.

A hungry individual looking to continue their career in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. Someone willing to take on any role or task, learn new skills, and be a part of building a great company. A customer service mentality with passion to reach the best possible outcome. Here’s what we’re hoping to see in your background:

  • You have 5+ years of trust, risk and safety support operations experience, the majority of which spent managing team KPIs.

  • You are an experienced leader with a strong desire and natural ability to motivate a team, set and achieve targets, and manage career growth and team performance

  • You have driven operational excellence, quality improvements, and performance-managed multiple agents.

  • You are analytical and data-driven, with experience distilling large data sets to actionable insights.

  • You have proven experience successfully co-ordinating business critical escalations to resolution

  • You are an owner, always looking for opportunities to better your work, team, product or customer experience

  • You have strong judgment and are comfortable making tough decisions that balance the trade-off between quality and quantity

  • You have knowledge of Zendesk, data platforms such as Sigma, familiar with excel/google Sheets (Knowledge of SQL preferred)

  • You have experience in startups, marketplaces, or e-commerce (preferred)

  • You have worked within multichannel support operations (chat, email, sms, phone)

  • You have familiarity with working with large, diverse customer support, and operations organisations (preferred)

  • You have the flexibility to occasionally work evenings, holidays, and outside of standard schedule

  • You have fluency in either French or German languages, in addition to English (preferred)

💛 EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.

Top Skills

Excel
Google Sheets
Sigma
SQL
Zendesk

Whatnot Dublin, Dublin, IRL Office

Dublin, Ireland

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