Customer Support Team Lead

Do you love solving tough customer problems and helping a team do its best work? Want to shape a brand-new role on a small, dedicated team? Then we’d love to meet you! We are looking for an experienced Customer Support Team Lead with a strong background in online communities and email-based support, and a knack for raising the bar for everyone around them. Platphorm , LLC builds innovative multi-modal information exchanges and provides a soup-to-nuts system that allows businesses to build scalable, reliable marketplaces where buyers pay sellers for information delivered by voice, mail, chat, SMS, or recorded phone message. The marketplace we’ve built enables anyone to provide fee-based advice in their area of expertise, at a price of their choosing, and for others to find them and pay for a conversation. The interaction can take place over the phone, cam, chat, text, or email. The Job: As our Customer Support Team Lead, you’ll be a player-coach: an expert frontline agent who also owns the day-to-day health of our support operation. You’ll spend about 60% of your time on frontline support and 40% on lead responsibilities. You will: Handle all frontline support duties, taking the most complex, sensitive, and escalated tickets Monitor queue health daily, including response times, backlog, and weekend coverage Serve as the team’s first escalation point, and own technical escalations to Engineering from report to resolution, keeping affected customers updated Maintain our Help Cen