Customer Support Manager

Underdog Fantasy
Summary
Join Underdog, the fastest-growing sports gaming company, as a Customer Support Manager! Lead and enhance the performance of the customer support team, focusing on both day-to-day operations and long-term growth. Optimize workflows, collaborate with senior leadership, and provide actionable insights to improve customer satisfaction and team efficiency. Drive innovation through data-driven tests and proactively address customer pain points. Oversee risk management, ensuring quick resolution of issues. Work cross-functionally to improve the customer journey and create strategic reports for senior leadership. This role requires 3-5+ years of experience in customer service management and strong leadership skills. Underdog offers a competitive salary, equity, unlimited PTO, parental leave, a home office allowance, and comprehensive benefits.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of experience in customer service management or a similar role
- Strong leadership and coaching skills, especially in mentoring team leads
- Proven ability to optimize workflows, improve operational efficiency, and implement scalable solutions
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across multiple departments
- Availability to work weekends to ensure consistent team support
Responsibilities
- Lead and enhance the performance of the customer support team, focusing on both day-to-day operations and long-term growth
- Optimize workflows, collaborate with senior leadership and other departments, and provide actionable insights to improve customer satisfaction and team efficiency
- Drive innovation through data-driven tests and proactively address customer pain points before they escalate
- Oversee the management of risk, including large-scale outages and high-impact customer issues, ensuring quick resolution and identifying patterns to minimize recurring issues
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Marketing, and CRM teams to improve the overall customer journey
- Create and present strategic reports to senior leadership, translating data into actionable insights
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with risk management, crisis handling, and compliance-related customer interactions
- Proficiency in customer service tools and technology, including CRM platforms and workforce management systems
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into strategic insights and recommendations
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- A $500 home office allowance
- A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
- 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents