Trust and Safety Team Lead, International at Whatnot in Dublin

Job description

🚀 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. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops. As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact. We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. 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. 💻 RoleThe 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. 👋 YouCurious 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