
Support Operations Manager
Genuinely, y'all, I don't think they know what Support is. I'm not being funny. I think someone is very confused. Or I am very confused. One of us is very confused.
Roles labeled as supervisor, lead, or manager, or that involve leading one or more individual contributors and being responsible for their professional development and work products.
Genuinely, y'all, I don't think they know what Support is. I'm not being funny. I think someone is very confused. Or I am very confused. One of us is very confused.
Okay, for starters, none (save one) of the duties listed in this JD are Lead-level duties. They clearly want a discount Director/VP of Support. (And at $70k-$150k, we're talking a *real* discount.)
Ah, so they want a discount manager. Cooooool.
Every time they talk about how fun they are, another venture capitalist gets a little red flag pocket square.
So...this role is a Senior Manager, Strategic Customer Success managing Senior Customer Success Managers collaborating with Account Managers, Managing Directors and Customer Success Managers. Who's on first?
Y'all know by now that it doesn't sit well with me when leadership roles are well-compensated and frontline roles are not.
This really should be a more senior title – Head of, at least. But the salary, responsibilities, and requirements of the position seem otherwise appropriate for the title of manager, and the Careers page looks good.
And there it is, folks, our first Seriously, Maybe Don't of the week! Imagine being an education company that thinks education isn't political. IMAGINE.
Alma's job descriptions are pretty consistently great.
Given the listed duties and that this position reports to the VP of Operations and will collaborate closely with senior leadership, it really needs to be more senior than a Senior Manager (I'm thinking at least a Director of Support, if not Head of).
There's a misalignment between the duties of this position and its seniority, and before you come at me with "they don't do titles! dudebro noises", they're at this very moment advertising for a Director of Engineering, so clearly they're familiar with the concept of leveling.
Oof, let this be a lesson to me not to finalize my notes before I look at everything. The job description is harmless enough, but the real hints at culture and work environment are in the job application.
This seems okay? They're honest about the fact the company's experimenting with what works and what doesn't, which I appreciate, and the pay is pretty good for a non-technical, actually mid-level manager role.
I can't decide if quoting Albert Einstein in a job description is cute or weird. I'm leaning toward cute, because this actually seems like a really neat job, and I've detected no flags. Our first Green Means Go of this week!
You should take a drink of water every time you come across the word "operation" or a derivative in this job listing. You'll be really hydrated.
I always want to call attention to the fact that companies are very good at acknowledging when certain roles might come into contact with disturbing content but are very bad at addressing how they plan to support your mental health post-exposure to said content.
Same note as with the other T&S Lead role: companies are very good at acknowledging when certain roles might come into contact with disturbing content but are very bad at addressing how they plan to support your mental health post-exposure to said content.
I know this title is Senior Community Manager, but given the duties of the role I'd expect it to be Head / Director of Community (unusually, though, the compensation is pretty spot on even if the title isn't).
See the Product Support Manager, Payments post for important info on Roblox's lack of diversity.
See the Product Support Manager, Payments post for important info on Roblox's lack of diversity.
My friends. As a CX leader, I advise you to think very carefully before working in Trust & Safety for a company that routinely launches products before they've fully considered the risks and tactical challenges involved with said products.
They repeat "dynamic environment" a lot. There are several other Success and Support roles open and the ones I've seen are pretty fair compensation-wise, so worth a look if working in a "fast moving dynamic environment" doesn't phase you.
The application requires you to create an account with Dayforce, which seems like an even more corporate Workday, which I honestly didn't think was possible.
This is another wide salary range, but seeing as they're open to folks who are newer as managers, I actually think it's a good thing.